The Belgian painter Emile Lecomte took lessons at the Academy of Brussels with Richard Viandier, who combined pleinairism with an indigenous, impressionistic style. Lecomte also took lessons at the academy of Saint-Gilles. His oeuvre includes powerful and spontaneous impressionistic landscapes and parks in a colourful palette. He also painted interiors, figures and flowers. Lecomte was for a long time director of the art magazine 'La Nervie'.