Georges de Feure born Georges Joseph van Sluijters, was a painter, industrial designer, poster and graphic designer in the Symbolism and Art Nouveau style. Born in Paris he moved to the Netherlands (Amsterdam) with his family in 1870 to escape the Franco-Prussian war. In 1886 he studied at the Rijkscademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam before returning to Paris where he became chief designer for Siegfried Bing’s L’Art Nouveau Bing designing furniture, panels, posters and graphics. He had a great success showing at the Exposition Universelle in the Paris exhibition of 1900. He contributed original colour lithographs to many of the prestigious publications of the 1890’s.