Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort

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.

Panoramic view of the siege of Gdańsk by French forces in 1807 by Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort

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]