Louis-Michel van Loo
French painter (1707–1771)
Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707, Toulon – 20 March 1771, Paris ) was a French painter . [1]
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
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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 ca. 1732-35
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Louise Élisabeth of France , wife of l'infant Philippe
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The Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain , future Dauphine of France
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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 .
External links
Media related to Louis-Michel van Loo at Wikimedia Commons
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