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Lon Spilliaert was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.

Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of LonardHubert Spilliaert, who was a perfumer, and Lonie . From childhood, he displayed an interest in art and drawing. A prolific doodler and autodidact, he was predominantly a selftaught artist. Sickly and reclusive, he spent most of his youth sketching scenes of ordinary life and the Belgian countryside. When he was 21, he went to work in Brussels for Edmond Deman, a publisher of the works of symbolist writers, which Spilliaert was to illustrate. He especially admired the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

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