Jean baptiste claude robie biography sample

Jean-Baptiste Robie or Jean Robie (&#;) 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]

Life

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 to , as well as at the Paris Salon and elsewhere.^[1]

He also wrote many travel books based