François Stroobant was a Belgian painter and lithographer, and brother of the lithographer Louis-Constantin Stroobant (1814-1872) noted for his part in Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe

Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe

Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe was one of the finest horticulture journals produced in Europe during the 19th century, spanning 23 volumes and over 2000 coloured plates with French, German and English text...

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He attended the Brussels Académie des Beaux-Arts

Académie des beaux-arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France.It was created in 1795 as the merger of the:* Académie de peinture et de sculpture...

 between 1832 and 1847, studying under François-Joseph Navez

François-Joseph Navez

François-Joseph Navez was a Belgian neo-classical painter.A pupil of Jacques-Louis David, he spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 and 1862 he was the director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.He was a very successful portrait painter...

, Paul Lauters

Paul Lauters

Paul Lauters or Paul Lauteri , was a Belgian printmaker, illustrator and painter. Lauters studied under the sculptor Charles Malaise at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts from 1820 to 1823. From 1823 he worked for the Gouban & Dewasme-Pletinckx lithographic company at the same time as...

 and François-Antoine Bossuet

François-Antoine Bossuet

François-Antoine Bossuet was a painter and draughtsman of the Belgian school.Bossuet is known for his depictions of the landscapes, cities and monuments of Spain and Italy, with an emphasis on historic places, occasionally with genre scenes of everyday life...

 (1798–1889). In 1835 he worked in the studio of the lithographer Dewasme-Plétinckx in Brussels.

Stroobant's subjects were mainly landscapes and architecture. He travelled extensively through the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Hungary, exhibiting in the galleries of the Belgian towns Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels. His romantic painting style stayed constant throughout his career. He was founder and first director in 1865 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in Brussels.

In 1878 he was made an Officier of l'Ordre de Léopold