Adolf le Comteartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsmanGeestbrug (Z.H.) 1850-1921 Den Haag

The highly talented artist Adolf le Comte began his artistic career as an ornament and decorative painter, a trade for which he was trained, and earned his living teaching at the Polytechnic School in Delft and the academy in The Hague. He would remain active in art education for the rest of his life and be active and successful in several fields of arts and crafts. He also achieved success as a painter, especially with impressionist landscapes and harbor views. Le Comte maintained close contacts with the painters of the Hague School, whom he knew through his brother-in-law Anton Mauve. He was the teacher of, among others, W.B. Tholen, F.C. Weiland and M. Kamerlingh Onnes.