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 A.D.
Gave lessons in painting to Emperor Marcus
Aurelius.—Jul. Cap. Anton., 4, 9.
DIONYSIUS, Greek painter, of Colophon,
5th century B.C. 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
