{{Short description|Belgian poet, curator, university professor, historian of modern age and art critic}} {{Infobox person | name = Philippe Roberts-Jones | image = | alt = | caption = Portrait of Philippe Roberts-Jones in 1967 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|11|8|df=yes}} | birth_place = Ixelles, Belgium | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|8|9|1924|11|8|df=yes}} | death_place = Uccle, Belgium <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.academieroyale.be/cgi?lg=fr&pag=774&tab=87&rec=2305&frm=0|title=Décès du baron Roberts-Jones, professeur émérite de l'ULB, conservateur en chef honoraire des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique et secrétaire perpétuel honoraire de l'Académie|publisher=Académie Royal de Belgique|language=fr}}</ref> | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Philippe Roberts-Jones |work= Dictionary of Art Historians|url = https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/robertsjonesp.htm|editor-first= Lee |editor-last=Sorensen|access-date = 2015-10-10}}</ref>

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.<ref>"[http://www.lesoir.be/1287895/article/culture/arts-plastiques/2016-08-10/mort-philippe-roberts-jones Mort de Philippe Roberts-Jones]", ''Le Soir'', 10.08.2016. Retrieved 2016-08-11.</ref><ref>"[http://www.bruzz.be/nl/actua/kmskb-conservator-roberts-jones-overleden KMSKB-conservator Roberts-Jones overleden]", ''BRUZZ.be'', 10.08.2016. Retrieved 2016-08-11.</ref>

== 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.

{{colbegin}} ;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 {{colend}}

== 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.

== Bibliography ==

*1973: ''L'Intermédiaire des généalogistes'', "De belgis illustribus. Les quartiers d'ascendance de Philippe Roberts-Jones", n° 167, 1973, p.&nbsp;328-332. (by Denise Lelarge, Suzanne Roberts-Jones-Goemaere, Estelle van Win, Marcel Bergé, J. Fobe and L. Poplemont) *1981: Paul Legrain, ''Dictionnaire des Belges'', Bruxelles, 1981 *2010: Karel Logist, "En poésie avec Dr Roberts et Mr Jones", dans ''Le Carnet et les Instants'', n° 160, Brussels, February/March 2010, p.&nbsp;19-20

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== External links == * [http://www.arllfb.be/composition/membres/jones.html Biography] at the site of the Belgian Royal Academy of French Language and Literature

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