Hendrik Joseph Dillens (1812 in Ghent – 1872 in Ixelles), a Belgian genre painter. He executed several pleasing and spirited paintings, among the best of which are:

• 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).

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•  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.

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