Information AboutJoseph-nicolas Robert-fleury |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT JOSEPH-NICOLAS ROBERT-FLEURY | |
| 1797 births | |
| robert-fleury, joseph nicolas | |
| 1890 deaths | |
| french painters | |
| history artists | |
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He was sent by his family to Paris , and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso at the Convent of St Onophrius. Endowed with a vigorous original talent, and with a vivid imagination, especially for the tragic incidents of history, he soon rose to fame, and in 1850 succeeded François Granet as member of the Académie Des Beaux-Arts . In 1855 he was appointed professor and in 1863 director of the École Des Beaux-Arts , and in the following year he went to Rome as director of the French Academy in that city. Among his chief works are:
His son, Tony Robert-Fleury , was also a painter.
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