Jean Baptiste Robie

Place: Brussels

Born: 1821

Death: 1910

Biography:

Jean-Baptiste Robie (1821–1910) was a Belgian painter who specialised in flower painting, and later seascapes, landscapes and Oriental scenes. He was born in Brussels, the son of a smith, and was initially self-taught . With the encouragement of his friend the artist Théodore Fourmois he later began studying at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in...