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Books From Realism to Surrealism: Painting in Belgium from Joseph Stevens to Paul Delvaux Similar People Paul Aron, Pascal Bonafoux, Otto von Habsburg, Helene Carrere d'Encausse | ||
Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones (8 November 1924 – 9 August 2016) was a Belgian art historian who was the head of conservation of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. A member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, of which he was president in 1980, he was also a member of the Free Academy of Belgium and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He was also a published poet.
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Biography
Born in Ixelles, Belgium, on 8 November 1924, Philippe Roberts-Jones belongs to a family of three generations of lawyers, descending from a British family established in Brussels at the beginning of the 19th century and that has been active in the coachwork industry.
His father Robert Roberts-Jones (1893–1943), a lawyer, was a member of the Belgian Resistance executed by the Germans at the Tir national on October 20, 1943.
Philippe Roberts-Jones died on 9 August 2016 at the age of 91.
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Robert-Jones was made a Baron by King Baudouin in 1988.
Work
As a poet he publishes under the name Philippe Jones. Among his published works are:
As an art historian, he is interested in the work of Honoré Daumier and in contemporary engraving; another field of interest is the work of Belgian painter Lismonde.