The Melancholy of the Belgian Twilight Edgar Bytebier did not paint the bright, midday sun; he painted the fading light. Born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1875, his work captures a specific, heavy atmosphere that defines the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. He was a painter, draftsman, and lithographer who focused on the quiet, often lonely corners of the landscape. His canvases do not shout. Instead, they whisper of…