Robert Aerens (1883, Ghent – 1969) was a Belgian painter of landscapes, portraits, and an etcher.
[1] After taking Jean Delvin's lessons at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, he moved to Laethem with Frits van den Berghe.
[1] He made many trips to France, Italy and Switzerland, before he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.
[1][2][3] He worked at the front during World War I and exhibited in Paris in 1916 at the Salon des Armées.
In the Salon 1937 in Ghent, he showed "De keuken", "Portret", and "Het atelier".