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HUBERT ROBERT (1753-1808)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 402 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUBERT See also:ROBERT (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 See also: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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