Henri Privat-Livemont

Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (1861–1936) was a Belgian Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked under the name T.

[2] He graduated at the top of his class in 1883 and was awarded a government bursary to spend time in Paris, where he remained 1883–1889, working and studying in the studios of Lemaire (for the interior decoration of the Hôtel de Ville), and of Lavastre and Duvignaud (painting stage sets for the Opéra Garnier and the Comédie Française).

On 23 July 1889 he married Madeleine Brown, and shortly after marriage returned to Schaarbeek to work as a painter and interior designer, establishing his own studio in 1890.

[2] From 1893 to 1902 he painted a number of grand ceilings in theatres, commercial premises, and Ostend casino, most of which have subsequently been lost.

Between 1900 and 1921 he painted a number of murals for public buildings, mostly in and around Brussels but including the provincial government house for Limburg in Hasselt.