# DILLENS, Hendrick Joseph [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1812–1872 - Profession: painter - School: Belgian ## Biography Belgian painter, part of a family of artists. Hendrick Joseph Dillens, like his brother Adolphe-Alexandre, was active as a painter and etcher. He had two sons, the painter Albert \(b. 1844\), who produced fishing scenes, portraits and a few religious works, and the sculptor Julien Dillens \(1849-1904\). Hendrick Joseph Dillens specialized in genre scenes and portraits. He was a pupil at the Academy of Ghent and Maes Canini, and he probably taught his younger brother, Adolphe-Alexandre, who was also a genre painter. ## Related artworks - [Archer the Winner]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()