title: Philippe Roberts-Jones
text: # Philippe Roberts-Jones
  
  Baron Philippe Roberts-Jones (8 November 1924 – 9 August 2016) 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 (1893–1943), a lawyer, was a member of the Belgian Resistance and was executed by the Germans at the Tir national on 20 October 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
  
  * Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur
  * Commandeur of the ordre des Arts et des Lettres
  
  ### Spain
  
  * Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  
  ### Italy
  
  * Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy
  
  ### Finland
  
  * Grand Officer of the Order of the Lion of Finland
  
  ## Work
  
  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.
  
  