Jean Delvin
Jean-Joseph Delvin (1853 – 1922) was a Belgian painter who specialized in scenes with animals (primarily horses).
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Jean Delvin

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- Name
- Jean Delvin
- Born
- 1853
- Birthplace
- Ghent, Belgium
- Died
- 1922
- Occupation
- Painter
- Education
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Fields
- architecture
- Languages
- French
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Jean-Joseph Delvin (1853 – 1922) was a Belgian painter who specialized in scenes with animals (primarily horses).
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Richard Heintz is recorded as having studied under Jean Delvin. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is architecture. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are marine. Work by Jean Delvin is recorded in the collections of Design Museum Gent, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Musée d'Orsay, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek.

Visser te paard nabij de kust - Jean Delvin - NAVIGO Nationaal Visserijmuseum - 4932
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Pêcheurs de crevettes - Jean Delvin - NAVIGO Nationaal Visserijmuseum - 4300 (1)
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Key facts
• Name — Jean Delvin • Birth Name — Jean Delvin • Born — 1853 • Birthplace — Ghent, Belgium • Died — 1922 • Occupation — Painter • Education — Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent
Life
Life
Delvin was born in Ghent. He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, where he studied under Théodore-Joseph Canneel, and worked in the studios of Jean Portaels in Brussels. His fellow students there included André Cluysenaar and Jacques de Lalaing. 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 secessionist group Les XX, along with James Ensor, Fernand Khnopff, Théo van Rysselberghe 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, Gustave De Smet, Frans Masereel, George Minne and Frits Van den Berghe.
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Gallery
• Illustration — Bathers • Illustration — Horses • Illustration — Shrimpers at Nieuwpoort • Illustration — Ox Near a Fountain • Illustration — Shrimp fishermen • Illustration — Fisherman on horseback near the coast
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1853
Jean Delvin born at Ghent.
1922
Jean Delvin died at Ghent.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur (A Thousand Years of Art and Culture, exhibition catalog), 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 (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium), 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.
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Design Museum Gent, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Musée d'Orsay and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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