Alphonse Robert was a painter on both canvas and porcelain, he was born in Sèvres in 1807, and was the son of Jean François Robert director of the Manufacture de Sèvres. Alphonse Robert was attached to the Sèvres factory from 1833 to 1837 as a landscape painter. Alongside his career with Sèvres, Alphonse Robert also worked on easel painting and exhibited at the Paris, Valenciennes, and Boulogne Salons between 1827 and 1880 as a pupil of Léon Cogniet. He received a second-class medal for landscape in 1831. Two of his paintings are exhibited in the apartments of the Palais de Saint-Cloud. Alphonse Robert died in Sèvres in 1885.