Jean-Baptiste Robie or Jean Robie (1821–1910) was a
Belgian painter who specialised in
still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
s with flowers and fruit.
[Marchal, E., ''Notice sur Jean Robie'', in: ''Annuaire de l’Académie Royale de Belgique'']
1911, pp 177–190 He later painted seascapes, landscapes and Oriental scenes based on his travels in the Middle East, India and
Ceylon
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
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/ref> He was also a writer who wrote about his travels in the East, an autobiographical essay and art theoretical works.
Life
He was born in Brussels, the son of a smith, and was initially self-taught.[Jean Robie, ''Les débuts d'un peintre'']
Brussels, Polleunis, Ceuterick et Lefébure, 1886 With the encouragement of his friend the artist Théodore Fourmois
Théodore Fourmois (14 October 1814 in Presles – October 1871 in Ixelles) was a Belgian landscape painter and printmaker.
Théodore Fourmois learned drawing in the lithographic's workshop of Antoine Dewasme-Pletinckx in Brussels. He first ...
he later began studying at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
with Balthazar-François Tasson (later Tasson-Snel) and exhibited at the Brussels Salon from 1843 to 1875, as well as at the Paris Salon and elsewhere.[
He also wrote many travel books based on his extensive travels as far as India.
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Notes and references
Further reading
* De Taeye, Edmond Louis, 1894-97: ''Les artistes belges contemporains''. Brussels
* Flippo, W.G., 1981: ''Lexicon of the Belgian Romantic Painters''. Antwerp
* Op De Beeck, E.: ''Un musée indien à Saint-Gillis. Oeuvre du peintre Jean Robie'', in: ''Le Folklore Brabançon'', nr. 162 (1964), pp 232–251* Thieme, U., & Becker, F., 1980-86: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Reprint of 1907 edition. 37 vols. Leipzig: Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag
* Vandevivere, I.. in: ''Biographie Nationale'', 33, Brussel, (1965–66)
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1821 births
1910 deaths
Artists from Brussels
19th-century Belgian painters
Belgian male painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts alumni
Flower artists
Belgian orientalists
Belgian landscape painters
Place of death unknown
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