Léon Huygens

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First World War
.

Léon Huygens (1876–1919) was a Belgian painter.

Huygens was born in

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He specialised in landscapes, particularly of the Sonian Forest to the south of Auderghem and the coast at Nieuwpoort
.

Sketch of Nieuwpoort during the First World War.

He volunteered for the

First World War, and was assigned as a war artist. He died in Paris
in 1919.

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