Philippe Roberts-Jones | |
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| Born | 8 November 1924 Ixelles, Belgium |
| Died | 9 August 2016 (aged 91) Uccle, Belgium |
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 a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He was also a published poet.
Born in Ixelles, Belgium, on 8 November 1924, Philippe Roberts-Jones belonged 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 had been active in the coachwork industry.
His father Robert Roberts-Jones (1893–1943), a lawyer, was a member of the Belgian Resistance and was executed by the Germans at the Tir national on 20 October 1943.
Philippe Roberts-Jones died on 9 August 2016 at the age of 91.
Robert-Jones was made a Baron by King Baudouin in 1988.
As a poet he publishes under the name Philippe Jones. Among his published works are:
As an art historian, he was interested in the work of Honoré Daumier and in contemporary engraving; another field of interest of his was the work of Belgian painter Lismonde.
