Early Life, Family and Training Born in Antwerp on March 22, 1868, Dolf Van Roy entered a world where the visual arts were a family vocation. He was the son of Pauline Jeanne Verbert and Michel Corneille Aloyse Léopold Van Roy, a man who earned his living as a decorative painter. This early immersion in the technicalities of color and surface likely shaped the foundations of his own development. The lineage of craftsmanship was presen…