Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort (28 August 1793 – 24 December 1861) was a French artist who painted in both oil and water colours. The French King Louis-Philippe commissioned several of his works.
Biography Fort was a student of the landscape painter .Brun-Durand, J. Dictionnaire biographique et biblio-iconographique de la Drôme, Grenoble: Librairie Dauphinoise, 1900, vol. 1, p. 338. 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)).
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