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Julien Dillens

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DILLENS, JULIEN (1849-19o4), Belgian sculptor, was born at Antwerp June 8 1849, son of a painter, and died at St. Gilles, near Brussels, Dec. 24 1904. He studied under Eugene Simonis at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts. In 1877 he re ceived the prix de Rome for "A Gaulish Chief taken Prisoner by the Romans," and from that time onward executed a number of important sculptures for the principal towns of Belgium and for the Belgian Government. Perhaps the most famous of these is the group "La justice entre la clemence et le droit," in the Palais de Justice at Brussels.