Alphonse Etienne Dinet - Artist Info

About Alphonse Etienne Dinet

Name variants

Etienne Alphonse Dinet, Nasreddine Dinet
  • Biography

    Alphonse-Étienne Dinet was a pupil of Victor Galland at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as well as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian*. He exhibited at the Salons between 1882 and 1889, and at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts between 1890 and 1921.

    In 1884 Dinet won a travel scholarship to Algeria, followed by another the next year. He was to return often to the country, which he soon regarded as a second home, and immersed himself in the local culture. He spent up to nine months a year there, and in 1904 bought a home in the town of Bou-Saada in southern Algeria.

    Admitted to the Légion d’Honneur in 1886, he won a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle* of 1889 and a gol...

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