Jean-Baptiste Robie or Jean Robie (1821–1910) was a Belgian painter who specialised in still lifes with flowers and fruit.

[1] He later painted seascapes, landscapes and Oriental scenes based on his travels in the Middle East, India and Ceylon.

[2] He was also a writer who wrote about his travels in the East, an autobiographical essay and art theoretical works.

[1] He was born in Brussels, the son of a smith, and was initially self-taught.

[3] With the encouragement of his friend the artist Théodore Fourmois he later began studying at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels with Balthazar-François Tasson (later Tasson-Snel) and exhibited at the Brussels Salon from 1843 to 1875, as well as at the Paris Salon and elsewhere.