Tony Robert-Fleury

Tony Robert-Fleury (1837 - 1912) was a French painter.

He was born just outside Paris, and studied under his father Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and under Delaroche and Léon Cogniet.

His first picture at the Salon, in 1866, was a large historical composition. of the Warsaw Massacres on April 8, 1861. In the following year his "Old Women in the Place Navone, Rome" was bought for the Luxembourg Museum, as was also the "Last Day of Corinth" in 1870. In 1880 he painted a ceiling for the Luxembourg, representing "The Glorification of French Sculpture."

Tony Robert-Fleury became president of the "Société des artistes français" in succession to Bouguereau. He acquired a great reputation for his historical compositions and portraits; and from his "atelier" have issued a great number of the best-known painters of the 20th century.

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NAME=Robert-Fleury, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=french painter
DATE OF BIRTH=September 1 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH=Paris
DATE OF DEATH=December 8 1911
PLACE OF DEATH=Viroflay, (Seine-et-Oise)