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Adolf Alexander Dillens

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Adolf Alexander Dillens
Bornca. 1821
Ghent, United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Diedca. 1877
n/a
OccupationPainter
RelativesHendrik Dillens (brother)
The Flirtation, 1858

Adolf Alexander Dillens, a Belgian genre-painter, was born at Ghent in 1821, and received instruction from his elder brother Hendrik Dillens. His first works were of an historical nature, but he afterwards devoted himself to pictures illustrating Zealand peasant life. He died in 1877. Amongst his best works are:

The Capture of Joan of Arc, ca. 1850, now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg

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