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          Leon De Smet ( - ) was active/lived in Belgium..

          Leon De Smet

          Biography of Leon De Smet ( 1881-1966 )

          Léon de Smet was born in Ghent in a family of artists; his father Jules de Smet was the owner of a firm of decorators and his brother Gustave was also a painter.

          Léon de Smet was born 20 July in the Belgian city of Ghent, the son of Maria Seranne and Jules de Smet, the owner of a firm of decorators.

        1. Léon de Smet was born 20 July in the Belgian city of Ghent, the son of Maria Seranne and Jules de Smet, the owner of a firm of decorators.
        2. Belgian Impressionist & Modern painter.
        3. Leon De Smet ( - ) was active/lived in Belgium.
        4. Léon de Smet.
        5. A man who will be relatively unfamiliar to many of you - but who captures the essence of Luminist art quite spectacularly.

          6. Léon de Smet joined the Fine Art School in Ghent where he began his apprenticeship in 1993. In 1895 he studied paining with Jean Devlin and Jules van Biesbroeck.

          He settled in Laethem-Saint-Martin in 1906 and shared a studio with Albert Servaes and Fritz Van den Berghe.

          After that, he joined the Luminist circle Vie et Lumière, an artistic movement created in 1904 by Emile Claus, George Morren and Adrien-Joseph Heymans that gathered together the majority of the Belgian impressionists painters.

          In 1909, Léon de Smet exhibited at the Biennale in Venice, he obtained a great success.

          From that time, he became a recognized artist and won a silver medal at the international exhibition in Venice in 1911.

          In 1913 he won the first prize of the competition organized for the