Jean-Baptiste Robie

(Redirected from Jean Baptiste Robie)

Jean-Baptiste Robie or Jean Robie (1821–1910) was a Belgian painter who specialised in still lifes with flowers and fruit.[1] He later painted seascapes, landscapes and Oriental scenes based on his travels in the Middle East, India and Ceylon.[2] He was also a writer who wrote about his travels in the East, an autobiographical essay and art theoretical works.[1]

Jean-Baptiste Robie
Portrait of Robie, c. 1894
Born
Jean-Baptiste Robie

1821
Brussels, Belgium
Died1910
n/a
OccupationPainter

Life

edit

He was born in Brussels, the son of a smith, and was initially self-taught.[3] With the encouragement of his friend the artist Théodore Fourmois he later began studying at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels 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.[1]

He also wrote many travel books based on his extensive travels as far as India.

Notes and references

edit

Further reading

edit
  • 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)
edit