Georges Maroniez was born in Douai in 1865 and died in Paris in 1933, French painter.
Son of an industrialist, manufacturer of sugar in Montigny-en-Ostrevent, Georges Maroniez very early on showed a taste and gifts for drawing and painting.
His father encouraged him but also asked him to study law, the profession of artist being little considered at the time.
At the end of his studies, he began a career as a magistrate, successively in Boulogne-sur-Mer (1891), Avesnes-sur-Helpe (1894) and Cambrai (1897).






