Complex sentence: Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1912), French painter, was born just outside Paris, and studied under his father Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and under Delaroche and Léon Coignet.
Split into simpler sentences: Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1912) was a French painter. He was born just outside Paris, and studied under his father Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and under Delaroche and Léon Coignet.