Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (28 August 1793 – 24 December 1861)[1] was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours.[2] The French King
Louis-Philippe commissioned several of his works.
Biography
Fort was a student of the landscape painter
Christian Brune [
fr].[3] In 1842, Fort exhibited four canvases of battles and sieges at the
Salon. They had been ordered by King Louis-Philippe for the "
musée historique de Versailles". In the following year, he was commissioned to produce a view of the royal residence (View of the Palace of Compiègne (1843)).[4]