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Hendrick Joseph Dillens

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Hendrik Joseph Dillens
Born
Hendrik Joseph Dillens

ca. 1812
Ghent, Belgium
Diedca. 1872
Brussels, Belgium
OccupationPainter
The Bird's Nest, 1855

Hendrik Joseph Dillens (1812 in Ghent – 1872 in Brussels), a Belgian genre painter. 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

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, 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.