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Oil Painting Artist::. LOO, Louis Michel van
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LOO, Louis Michel van
French painter (b. 1707, Toulon, d. 1771, Paris).
Painter, son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo. He trained with his father in Turin and Rome, later attending the courses of the Academie Royale in Paris. He received the institution's first prize for painting in 1726, and in 1728, accompanied by his brother, Francois, and his uncle, Carle, returned to Rome where he was associated with Francois Boucher. On his way back to France, he stayed for a time in Turin, painting portraits of the royal family of Sardinia, the Duke and Duchess of Savoy. In Paris he was admitted to membership of the Academie Royale and in 1735 was appointed assistant teacher at the Academie, becoming renowned as a specialist in portrait painting. Most of his portraits from this period are half-length, combining ideas from Hyacinthe Rigaud's later work with other more natural and innovative ones. On the death of Jean Ranc, Philip V of Spain asked Rigaud to suggest a substitute, and van Loo was proposed. He arrived in Madrid in 1737 and remained there as Pintor de la Corte until 1752, responding with modern aesthetic ideas to the demands of the Spanish monarchs for pomp and splendour. He carried out court commissions but devoted part of his time to teaching, his pupils often becoming studio assistants. He also took an active part in meetings held over a number of years to establish the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de S Fernando, for which he produced the canvas, the Education of Cupid by Venus and Mercury
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Portrait of Catherina Golitsyna s
Oil on canvas, 91 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Painting ID:: 7996
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Portrait_of_Catherina_Golitsyna_s
Oil on canvas, 91 x 81 cm
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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Denis Diderot (mk05)
Canvas 32 x 25 1/2''(81 x 65 cm)Given in 1911 by descendants of the sitter R.F 1958(G/AR)
Painting ID:: 20748
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Denis_Diderot_(mk05)
Canvas 32 x 25 1/2''(81 x 65 cm)Given in 1911 by descendants of the sitter R.F 1958(G/AR)
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) Portrait of Catherina Golitsyna
Oil on canvas,
91 x 81 cm
Painting ID:: 51207
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)_Portrait_of_Catherina_Golitsyna
Oil on canvas,
91 x 81 cm
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LOO,_Louis_Michel_van
French painter (b. 1707, Toulon, d. 1771, Paris).
Painter, son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo. He trained with his father in Turin and Rome, later attending the courses of the Academie Royale in Paris. He received the institution's first prize for painting in 1726, and in 1728, accompanied by his brother, Francois, and his uncle, Carle, returned to Rome where he was associated with Francois Boucher. On his way back to France, he stayed for a time in Turin, painting portraits of the royal family of Sardinia, the Duke and Duchess of Savoy. In Paris he was admitted to membership of the Academie Royale and in 1735 was appointed assistant teacher at the Academie, becoming renowned as a specialist in portrait painting. Most of his portraits from this period are half-length, combining ideas from Hyacinthe Rigaud's later work with other more natural and innovative ones. On the death of Jean Ranc, Philip V of Spain asked Rigaud to suggest a substitute, and van Loo was proposed. He arrived in Madrid in 1737 and remained there as Pintor de la Corte until 1752, responding with modern aesthetic ideas to the demands of the Spanish monarchs for pomp and splendour. He carried out court commissions but devoted part of his time to teaching, his pupils often becoming studio assistants. He also took an active part in meetings held over a number of years to establish the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de S Fernando, for which he produced the canvas, the Education of Cupid by Venus and Mercury
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