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 Order of Leopold, 1862; member of Amsterdam Academy, 1866. Works: Five Senses, Sunday in Flanders (1848); Asking in Marriage (1849); Peruzzi painting Portrait of dead Constable de Bourbon (1850), Bruges Gallery; Courtship in Zealand, Taking Toll, Fair at West Capelle (1854); Gossip at the Window; Ball at Goes, Juggler, Ring Tournaments, Taking Toll (1855); Marchand de Complaintes, Farm Interior (1857); Summer in Zealand—Taking Toll at the Bridge, Winter in Zealand—Skaters, Defeat of the Duke d'Alençon at Antwerp in 1593, To be Warm when it is Cold (1862); Jeu de Banes; A Zealand Wedding; An Abuse of Confidence; Ballad Seller; Grief and Disorder; Recruiting, Brussels Museum.—Art Journal (1867), 69; Kramm, ii. 344.

DILLENS, HENDRIK, born at Ghent, Dec. 20, 1812, died in Brussels in 1872. Genre painter, pupil of Maës-Canini. Works: French Trooper caressing his Child; Capture of Joan of Arc; Old Man counselling Youths; Consecration of a Church; Charles V. and the Swine-herd; Charles V. at Antwerp; Baptismal Ceremonies in Russia (1828); Tavern Interior (1833); Laura and Petrarch (1834); Triumphal Entry of Philippe Auguste into Paris (1835).—Immerzeel, i. 183.

DILLIS, JOHANN CANTIUS, born at Grüngiebing, Bavaria, in 1779, died in Munich in 1856. Landscape painter, brother and pupil of Johann Georg von D., whom he accompanied in 1805 to Switzerland, Tyrol, and Italy; remained in Rome and returned to Munich alone in 1807, but again joined his brother on his journeys to Italy in 1808 and to Paris in 1815. Works: View near Grotta Ferrata (1809), Schleissheim Gallery; Outlook from high Alps near Neselau, Stone Bridge near Audorf, Wood with Hunters and Animals, Village on a Brook (1825); Cows and Goats by Peasant's Cottage, Winter Landscape (1825); Two Views in Bavarian Alps (1826-27); Mountain Landscape with Cattle.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 226; Larousse, vi. 854.

DILLIS, JOHANN GEORG VON, born at Grüngiebing, Bavaria, Dec. 26, 1759, died in Munich, Sept. 28, 1841. German school; landscape painter, pupil of the Munich Academy in 1783-90; visited Switzerland and the Rhine in 1788 and was made inspector of the Munich Gallery in 1790. Thence he accompanied Gilbert Elliot to Italy, then lived during the war-times in Ansbach, and in 1805 visited Italy once more. In 1806 he accompanied the Crown Prince Louis to Paris and on a journey through Switzerland, France, and Spain, and in 1817-18 to Sicily. As director of the Royal Gallery, after 1822, he earned much credit through his arrangement of the art treasures in Munich and Nuremberg. Works: View of Tegernsee, View near Grotta Ferrata, New Pinakothek, Munich Gallery; Waterfall of Kesselberg, View of Dietramszell; others in Schleissheim and Leuchtenberg Galleries, and Tegernsee Castle.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 229; Andresen, iv. 137; Brockhaus, v. 355.

DINET, (ALPHONSE) ÉTIENNE, born in Paris; contemporary. History, portrait, and landscape painter; pupil of Galland, Bouguereau, and Tony Robert-Fleury. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Mother Clotilde (1882); View from Rock of Samois, Phœbus (1883); St. Julian the Hospitaller (1884); View of the Oued-Msila after Rain (1885).

DINIAS, Greek painter, date unknown; one of earliest workers in monochrome.—Pliny, xxxv. 34 [53].

DIOGNETUS, painter, 2d century Gave lessons in painting to Emperor Marcus Aurelius.—Jul. Cap. Anton., 4, 9.

DIONYSIUS, Greek painter, of Colophon, 5th century Equalled Polygnotus in technical skill, but inferior to him in higher qualities. Became a distinguished artist by study rather than through natural gifts. (Ælian, V. H. iv. 3; Plut. Timol. 36). Aristotle says (Poët. 2) that he painted men just like the originals, meaning probably that he was deficient in the ideal. According to Pliny (xxxv. 37 [113]) he was called Anthropographus because he painted nothing but