Louis-Michel van Loo
Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707 – 20 March 1771) was a French painter.[1]
Louis-Michel van Loo | |
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 Self-portrait of van Loo | |
| Born | 2 March 1707 |
| Died | 20 March 1771 (aged 64) |
Biography
He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1725. With his uncle, the painter Charles-André van Loo, he went to Rome in 1727–1732, and in 1736 he became court painter to Philip V of Spain at Madrid, where he was a founder-member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1752.
He returned to Paris in 1753, and painted many portraits of Louis XV of France. In 1765 he succeeded Charles-André as director of the special school of the French academy known as the École Royale des Élèves Protégés. In 1766 he made the portrait of the Portuguese statesman Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal.
Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo (1708–1732) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795).
Selected works
Portrait of Denis Diderot,
painted 1767
Princess Ekaterina
Dmitrievna Golitsyna
The Comte de Maurepas wearing the sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit, painted c. 1732-35.jpg.webp)
Louise Élisabeth of France, wife of l'infant Philippe
The Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, future Dauphine of France
Venus, Mercury and Love, 1748.[2]
References
- "Louis-Michel van Loo". www.answers.com.
- Fernando, Real Academia de BBAA de San. "Loo, Louis Michel van - Venus, Mercurio y el Amor". Academia Colecciones (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2020.
