Marie Howet
She received a musical education and learned drawing, attending school in Arlon.Originally she planned to study music but instead chose art and enrolled at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.In her first year she received several prizes, but the outbreak of the First World War led to her family's exile in France.After the war she returned to Belgium and set up a studio at Rochehaut, near Bouillon, later moving to Saint Gilles.She travelled and exhibited frequently abroad, illustrating collections of poetry on Greece, Turkey, Ireland, and Italy.