Willem Dolphyn was born on the 17th of May 1935 in Antwerp, Belgium where he grew up as an only child in an exceptionally artistic environment.
His father Victor was a painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp while his mother, Anna De Ridder, was one of the daughters of Alfons De Ridder - writer Willem Elsschot. 



The quality of Willem's paintings make people forget all negative connotations of the word "classic".

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The carefully chosen objects, the balanced compositions, the subtile game of light and dark, of shadow and colour, and above all, the life-like reproduction of the textures, are all extremely well executed using the technique of 17th century painters.