Philippe Roberts-Jones
Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones 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.Biography
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, a lawyer, was a member of the Belgian Resistance and was executed by the Germans at the Tir national on October 20, 1943.
Philippe Roberts-Jones died on 9 August 2016 at the age of 91.Prizes
- Prix Émile Polak from the Belgian Royal Academy of French Language and Literature, 1957, for Amour et autres visages
- Prix Malherbe of the Province of Brabant, 1976, for L'Art Majeur
- Prix du rayonnement de la langue française, from the Académie française, 1980, for his collected output
- Grand prix de poésie de l'Académie française, 1985
- Prix Louis-Guillaume for prose poetry, 2002, for Domaines en cours
- Grand prix international Lucian Blaga, 2006
Distinctions
Robert-Jones was made a Baron by King Baudouin in 1988.
;Belgium
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
- Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold
- Volunteers' Medal for War
- Commemorative Medal of the 1940–1945 War, with sabres
- Civic Medal, first class
;France
;Spain
; Italy
; Finland
As a poet he publishes under the name Philippe Jones. Among his published works are:
- Le Voyageur de la nuit
- Amours et autres visages
- Être selon
- Racine ouverte
- Un espace renoué
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.
