Edgard Tytgat (Tijtgat) painter and illustrator, was born in Brussels and apprenticed to a watch maker from 1893-95. In the late 1890’s he attended evening classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and in 1901 took full time courses there. He left Belgium for England during the First World War returning in 1920 to settle permanently in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in 1923. He illustrated a number of books with coloured woodcuts and lino-cuts often in a child-like “naive” style. Examples of his paintings and prints are held in the museums of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Lxelles, Liege and Mons and in many other art galleries throughout the World.