(b Brussels, 11 Feb 1889; d Brussels, 12 Jan 1968). Belgian watercolourist, draughtsman and painter. He began to study at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Ixelles at the age of 12, moving later to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. For several years he earned his living in his uncle’s industrial painting workshop, where he learnt to imitate wood and marble. His first exhibition took place in 1911 in the Salle Boute in Brussels, and from 1912 he exhibited regularly in the triennial Salon at Liège. At this time he worked exclusively in watercolour, with lavish use of washes and mixtures of tones (e.g. Maternity with Bathtub, 1913; priv. col., see 1970 exh. cat., no. 147). He was concerned above all with effects of light and generally produced still-lifes and landscapes of the outskirts of Brussels.