Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

Born in Cologne, 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 Saint 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.

His pupils included Marie-Adélaïde Baubry-Vaillant, David Bles, Marguerite Jacquelin, Charles Désiré Hué, Leon Kapliński and Henri Le Riche.[1] His son, Tony Robert-Fleury, was also a painter.

1887: Knight in the Order of Leopold. [2]

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  Henry IV, After his Assassination
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  Galileo before the Holy Office
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  Looting of a house in Giudecca
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  Baldwin I Enters Edessa
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  Scene from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Robert-Fleury, Joseph Nicolas". Encyclopædia Britannica. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 403.

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