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Belgian artist (–)

Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (&#;) was a Belgian Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked under the name T.

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Life

Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, on 9 October , to Henri Livemont and Marie Catherine Richard. From the age of 13 he studied drawing at the academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode under Louis Hendrickx.^[2] He graduated at the top of his class in and was awarded a government bursary to spend time in Paris, where he remained –, working and studying in the studios of Lemaire (for the interior decoration of the Hôtel de Ville), and of Lavastre and Duvignaud (painting stage sets for the Opéra Garnier and the Comédie Française).^[2] He exhibited in the Paris Salon in and

On 23 July he married Madeleine Brown, and shortly after marriage returned to Schaarbeek to work as a painter and interior designer, establishing his own studio in During this