Hubert Robert

Landscape painter, born in Paris, France. He spent 11 years in Italy (1754–65), where he befriended and worked with Fragonard. Returning to Paris, he joined the French Royal Academy in 1766. He painted romantic Italian landscapes, Roman ruins, and views of Paris and the S of France. Appointed keeper of Louis XVI's pictures, he was also one of the first curators of the Louvre.

Hubert Robert (1733 - April 15, 1808), French artist, was born at Paris.

He deserves to be remembered not so much for his skill as a painter as for the liveliness and point with which he treated the subjects he painted.

His incessant activity as an artist, his daring character, his many adventures, attracted general sympathy and admiration. later in life, when imprisoned during the Terror and marked for the guillotine, by a fatal accident another died in his place and Robert lived.

The quantity of his work is immense; Robert's work has more or less of that scenic character which justified his selection by Voltaire to paint the decorations of his theatre at Ferney.

His work was much engraved by the abbé de Sainte-Non, with whom he had visited Naples in the company of Fragonard during his early days; in Italy his work has also been frequently reproduced by Chatelain, Linard, Le Veau, and others.