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 the article "DILLENS, Hendrik" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.