Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707,
Toulon
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– 20 March 1771,
Paris
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) was a French
painter
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.
Biography
He studied under his father, the painter
Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 – 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter.
Life and career
He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo, son of Jacob van Loo. Hav ...
, at
Turin
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and
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
, 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
Carle or Charles-André van Loo (; 15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a su ...
, he went to Rome in 1727–1732, and in 1736 he became court painter to
Philip V of Spain
Philip V ( es, Felipe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 14 January 1724, and again from 6 September 1724 to his death in 1746. His total reign of 45 years is the longest in the history of the Spanish mon ...
at
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
, where he was a founder-member of the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF; ), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery. A public law corporation, it is integrated together with other Spanish royal acad ...
in 1752.
He returned to Paris in 1753, and painted many portraits of
Louis XV of France
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...
. 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
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Later, through another roy ...
.
Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo (1708–1732) and
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (25 August 1719 – 15 November 1795) was a French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits.
He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, where in 1738 he won the Pr ...
(1719–1795).
Selected works
File:Denis Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo.jpg, ''Portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a promine ...
'',
painted 1767
File:Louis-Michel van Loo Princess Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golitsyna.jpg, ''Princess Ekaterina
Dmitrievna Golitsyna''
File:Beaujon vanloo.jpg, ''Nicolas Beaujon
Nicolas Beaujon (1718–1786) was a wealthy French banker at the Court of King Louis XV. The portrait of Nicolas Beaujon seen here was painted by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun in 1784.
Youth and early career
Born in Bordeaux, the scion of two very wea ...
''
File:BPC LD.jpg, ''The Comte de Maurepas
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Comte or Comté may refer to:
* A count in French, from Latin ''comes''
* A ...
wearing the sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit'', painted ca. 1732-35
File:Louis-Michel Vanloo, Louise-Élisabeth de France, épouse de l'infant Philippe (1745).jpg, ''Louise Élisabeth of France
es, María Luisa Isabel de Borbón it, Maria Luisa Elisabetta di Francia
, spouse =
, issue = Isabella, Archduchess Joseph of Austria-Tuscany Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain
, house = Bourbon
, fat ...
'', wife of l'infant Philippe
File:Michel Etienne Turgo by Van Loo 1739.jpg, '' Michel-Etienne Turgot''
File:The Infanta María Teresa Rafaela of Spain, future Dauphine of France by Louis Michel Van Loo.jpg, ''The Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
, future Dauphine of France''
File:Louis Michel van Loo - Venus, Mercurio y el Amor - Google Art ProjectFXD.jpg, ''Venus, Mercury and Love'', 1748.
References
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1707 births
1771 deaths
18th-century French painters
French male painters
French portrait painters
Rococo painters
Court painters
18th-century French male artists
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