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ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 402 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT, See also:HUBERT (1753-1808) , See also:French artist, See also:born at See also:Paris in 1753, 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. The contrast between the ruins of See also:ancient See also:Rome and the See also:life of his See also:time excited his keenest See also:interest; and, although he had started for See also:Italy on his own responsibility, the See also:credit he there acquired procured him the See also:protection of the See also:minister See also:Marigny and an See also:official See also:allowance. His incessant activity as an artist, his daring See also:character, his many adventures, attracted See also:general sympathy and admiration. In the See also:fourth See also:canto of his L'See also:Imagination See also:Delille celebrated Robert's miraculous See also:escape when lost in the catacombs; later in life, when imprisoned during the Terror and marked for the See also:guillotine, by a fatal See also:accident another died in his See also:place and Robert lived. The quantity of his See also:work is immense; the Louvre alone contains nine paintings by his See also:hand and specimens are frequently to be met with in provincial museums and private collections. Robert's work has more or less of that scenic character which justified his selection by See also:Voltaire to paint the decorations of his See also:theatre at Ferney. Robert died of See also:apoplexy on the 15th of See also:April 18o8. His work was much engraved by the See also:abbe Le Non, with whom he had visited See also:Naples in the See also:company of See also:Fragonard during his See also:early days; in Italy his work has also been frequently reproduced by See also:Chatelain, Lienard, Le Veau, and others. See C. See also:Blanc, Hist. See also:des peintres; Villot, See also:Notice des tableaux du Louvre; See also:Julius See also:Meyer, Gesch. mod. fr. Malerei.

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