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 present in his household from the beginning. His formal education took place at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, an institution that demanded both discipli…