Tony Robert-Fleury
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Tony Robert-Fleury (1 September 1837 – 8 December 1912) was a French painter.
He was born just outside Paris, and studied under his father Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and under Delaroche and Léon Cogniet.
His first picture at the Salon, in 1866, was a large historical composition of the Warsaw Massacres on 8 April 1861. In the following year, his "Old Women in the Place Navone, Rome" was bought for the Luxembourg Museum, as was also the "Last Day of Corinth" in 1870. In 1880, he painted a ceiling for the Luxembourg, representing "The Glorification of French Sculpture."
Tony Robert-Fleury became president of the Société des artistes français in succession to Bouguereau. He acquired a great reputation for his historical compositions and portraits; and from his atelier have issued a great number of the best-known painters of the 20th century.
