Hendrick Joseph Dillens

The Bird's Nest, 1855

Hendrik Joseph Dillens, a Belgian genre painter, was born at Ghent in 1812, and died at Brussels in 1872. He executed several pleasing and spirited paintings, among the best of which are:

Archer the Winner, 1851, now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg

• The French Trooper caressing his Child.
• The Capture of the Maid of Orleans.
• An Old Man giving Counsel to Two Youths.
• Consecration of a Church (with over 200 figures).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Dillens, Hendrik". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.