Jean-Joseph Delvin (1853 – 1922, born in

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Life

He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where he studied under , and worked in the studios of Jean Portaels in Brussels. His fellow students there included

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. Later, he undertook study trips to France and Spain. For many years, he shared a small workshop in a garden shed with Gustave Den Duyts. In 1883, he was invited to join the

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'', along with

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and several others, but he resigned only a few years later in 1886. He was also a member of '' La Libre Esthétique'' and ''Kunst van Heden'' (Art for Today) in Antwerp. At about that time, he began teaching at the Academy in Ghent and later became its Director (1902–1913). Among his many well-known students there were Albert Baertsoen,

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and

Frits Van den Berghe Frits Van den Berghe (3 April 1883 – 23 September 1939) was a Belgian expressionist and surrealist painter and illustrator. Biography He was born in Ghent, where his father was the Librarian at the University of Ghent.Museum voor Schone Kunsten), 1975. * ''Le dictionnaire des peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours'', Brussels, 1994. * Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque, Pierre Baudson, et al., ''Les XX. La Libre Esthétique. Honderd jaar later'' (exhibition catalog), Brussels (

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), 1993. * ''De muren weten ervan'' (The Walls Know It, exhibition catalog), Ghent, 1997. * M. Tahon-Vanroose, ''De vrienden van Scribe'' (The Friends of Scribe, exhibition catalog), Ghent (Museum voor Schone Kunsten), 1998.

External links

Arcadja Auctions: More works by Delvin
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delvin, Jean 1853 births 1922 deaths 19th-century Belgian painters 19th-century Belgian male artists 20th-century Belgian painters Animal painters Artists from Ghent 20th-century Belgian male artists