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Jun 14, 1819 Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium Died on 01 Jun 1916 (aged 96)
Belgian artist
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About François Stroobant
- François Stroobant (14 June 1819 Brussels – 1 June 1916 Elsene) was a Belgian painter and lithographer, and brother of the lithographer Louis-Constantin Stroobant (1814–1872) noted for his part in Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe. He attended the Brussels Académie des Beaux-Arts between 1832 and 1847, studying under François-Joseph Navez, Paul Lauters and François-Antoine Bossuet (1798–1889).
- In 1835 he worked in the studio of the lithographer Antoine Dewasme-Plétinckx (1797-1851) in Brussels.Stroobant's subjects were mainly landscapes and architecture.
- He travelled extensively through the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Hungary, exhibiting in the galleries of the Belgian towns Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels.
- His romantic painting style stayed constant throughout his career.
- He was founder and first director in 1865 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in Brussels.In 1878 he was made an Officer in the Order of Leopold.
