Jean Baptiste Claude Robie 🇧🇪 ( 1821 - 1910 ) | Belgian Still Life Painter | ArtLiveAndBeauty
Jean-Baptiste Claude Robie's Paintings & Biography
The future artist's youth was terrible. In Brussels, a farmer's great-grandson, a tinsmith's grandson, and a blacksmith's son were born. His parents, Jean-Baptiste Claude Robie and Maria-Catarina Mommar, had eleven children in all, six boys and five girls. Little Jean-Baptiste spent his boyhood in his father's gloomy forge, which was located opposite St. Peter's Hospital in Brussels. Jean-Baptiste Robie remembers his first drawing competition, which was arranged by someone from St. Peter's Hospital for the youngsters on his neighbourhood. The youngsters were permitted to paint on a corner of the building's wall near the hospital's entrance. Children were thrilled to create the most spectacular drawings on the wall, equipped with coal, chalk, and shards from flower pots.






