Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury (August 8, 1797 - May 5, 1890) was a French

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 painter

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.

Born in Cologne

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, he was sent by his family to Paris

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, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon

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 in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso

Torquato Tasso

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 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

Académie des beaux-arts

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. In 1855, he was appointed professor and in 1863 director of the École des Beaux-Arts

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, and in the following year he went to Rome

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 as director of the French Academy in that city.

His son, Tony Robert-Fleury

Tony Robert-Fleury

Tony Robert-Fleury 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....

, was also a painter.

Selected works

• A Reading at Mme. de Sévigné's, Scene of St Bartholomew, Henry IV taken to the Louvre after his Assassination (1836)
• Triumphal Entry of Clovis at Tours (1838), at the Versailles Museum
• Le Colloque de Poissy (1840), at the Luxembourg Museum
  Musée du Luxembourg
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   in Paris
• The Children of Louis XVI in the Temple (1840)
• Marino Faliero
• An Autodafé
• Galileo before the Holy Office, at the Luxembourg Museum
• Christopher Columbus received by the Spanish Court (1847), Musée du Luxembourg
• The Last Moments of Montaigne (1853) and Charles V in the Monastery of Yuste (1857).

The reception of Christopher Columbus by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain in Barcelona(1846)

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