Bartholomé Léon

Leon Bartholomé was a French-Belgian artist, born in Lille/France in 1865, and died in Brussels in 1952. He was a painter, watercolorist, draftsman and etcher. Around 1890 he settled in Brussels. He mainly worked in Brittany/France, Zeeland/Netherlands, Brabant and Flanders. He realized landscapes, seascapes, figures, cityscapes and rural interiors. La Société des Aquafortistes belges published several of his etchings, including in 1899 and 1902. In 1906 and 1907 he exhibited in Paris, in 1907 in Munich. Léon Bartholomé is mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)