Jean-Baptiste van Loo
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Susanna and the Elders
Portrait of Sieur de Carnay, Spanish Court Treasurer
Louis XV, King of France and Navarre (1710-1774)
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales, with members of her family and household
Portrait of Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield ((1705-1793), holding a book and a quill
Studio of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Portrait Of Augusta Von Sachsen-Gotha Princess Of Wales
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Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 – 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter. He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo, son of Jacob van Loo. Having at an early age executed several pictures for the decoration of the church and public buildings at Aix, he was employed on similar work at Toulon, which he was obliged to leave during the siege of 1707.
He was patronized by the prince of Carignan, who sent him to Rome, where he studied under Benedetto Luti. He was much employed painting for churches in Rome, and in particular executed a greatly praised Scourging of Christ for the church of Santa Maria in Monticelli. At Turin he painted Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy and several members of his court. Then, moving to Paris, where he was elected a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, he executed various altar-pieces and restored the works of Francesco Primaticcio at Fontainebleau.
In 1737 he went to England, where he attracted attention by his portrait of Colley Cibber and of Owen McSwiny, the theatrical manager; the latter, like many other of van Loo's works, was engraved in mezzotint by John Faber Junior. He also painted Sir Robert Walpole, whose portrait by van Loo in his robes as chancellor of the exchequer is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the prince and princess of Wales. He did not, however, practise long in England, for his health failing he retired to Paris in 1742, and afterwards to Aix, where he died on 19 December 1745. His likenesses were striking and faithful, but seldom flattering, and his heads are forcible in coloring.
See also
His younger brother, Charles-André van Loo (1705–1765), was also a painter.
Two of his sons were notable painters, Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795).
John Giles Eccardt, one of his apprentices, also became a noted portrait painter in Britain.
References
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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