Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones (8 November 1924 – 9 August 2016) was a Belgian art historian who was the head of conservation of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. A member of the

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, of which he was president in 1980, he was also a member of the Free Academy of Belgium and a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He was also a published

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Biography

Born in

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, Belgium, on 8 November 1924, Philippe Roberts-Jones belonged to a family of three generations of lawyers, descending from a

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family established in

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at the beginning of the 19th century and that had been active in the

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industry. His father Robert Roberts-Jones (1893–1943), a lawyer, was a member of the

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and was executed by the Germans at the ''

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'' on 20 October 1943. Philippe Roberts-Jones died on 9 August 2016 at the age of 91.KMSKB-conservator Roberts-Jones overleden
, ''BRUZZ.be'', 10.08.2016. Retrieved 2016-08-11.

Prizes

* Prix Émile Polak from the

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, 1957, for ''Amour et autres visages'' * Prix Malherbe of the

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, 1976, for ''L'Art Majeur'' * Prix du rayonnement de la langue française, from the

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, 1980, for his collected output *

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, 1985 * Prix Louis-Guillaume for

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, 2002, for ''Domaines en cours'' * Grand prix international Lucian Blaga, 2006

Distinctions

Robert-Jones was made a

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by King Baudouin in 1988. ;Belgium *Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown *Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold *Volunteers' Medal for War *Commemorative Medal of the 1940–1945 War, with sabres *Civic Medal, first class ;France *Commandeur of the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

*Commandeur of the

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;Spain *Commander of the

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; Italy *Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy ; Finland *Grand Officer of the

Order of the Lion of Finland The Order of the Lion of Finland ( fi, Suomen Leijonan ritarikunta; sv, Finlands Lejons orden) is one of three official orders in Finland, along with the Order of the Cross of Liberty and the Order of the White Rose of Finland. The President o ...

Work

As a poet he publishes under the name Philippe Jones. Among his published works are: *''Le Voyageur de la nuit'' *''Amours et autres visages'' *''Être selon'' *''Racine ouverte'' *''Un espace renoué'' As an art historian, he was interested in the work of

Honoré Daumier Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808February 10, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second N ...

and in contemporary

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; another field of interest of his was the work of Belgian painter Lismonde.

Bibliography

*1973: ''L'Intermédiaire des généalogistes'', "De belgis illustribus. Les quartiers d'ascendance de Philippe Roberts-Jones", n° 167, 1973, p. 328-332. (by Denise Lelarge, Suzanne Roberts-Jones-Goemaere, Estelle van Win, Marcel Bergé, J. Fobe and L. Poplemont) *1981: Paul Legrain, ''Dictionnaire des Belges'', Bruxelles, 1981 *2010: Karel Logist, "En poésie avec Dr Roberts et Mr Jones", dans ''Le Carnet et les Instants'', n° 160, Brussels, February/March 2010, p. 19-20

References

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