Louis-Michel van Loo

Louis-Michel van Loo

Venus with Mercury and Cupid

Diana in a landscape

Official portrait of Queen Isabel de Farnesio

Philip V of Spain and his family

Infante Don Luis of Spain Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain

Louise-Elisabeth of France Wife of the Infante Philip Future Duke of Parma

The Artist with a Portrait of his Father

The Devin Family

Portrait of Denis Diderot

Portrait of Catherina Golitsyna

The Family of Philip V

Portrait of a Gentleman

Sextet

The family of Philip V.

The Marquis de Marigny and his wife

Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy

Thalia, Muse of Comedy

Portrait of Maria Leczinska in State Robes

Portrait of François Bernard Joachim Potier, 2nd Duke of Gesvres (1692 to 1757)

Infante Don Luis of Spain (1727-1785), Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain

Official portrait of Queen Isabel de Farnesio (1692-1766)

King Ferdinand VI of Spain (1713-1759)

Louise-Élisabeth of France, Wife of the Infante Philip, Future Duke of Parma

Portrait of Elisabeth Farnese (1692-1766)

The Infanta María Teresa Rafaela of Spain, future Dauphine of France

Portrait of Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain

María Bárbara of Portugal as Queen of Spain

Portrait of Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771)

Portrait of a young woman

Portrait of Louis XV, King of France (1710-1774)

Portrait of Nicolas Beaujon (1718-1786)

Portrait of Carle van Loo (1705–1765), Charles André van Loo, painter

Portrait of Marquess of Pombal (1699-1782)

Portrait of Louis de Saint-Florentin Phélypeaux (1705-1777), Count of Saint Florentine, Duc de La Vrilliere, Minister and Secretary of State

King Christian VII of Denmark (1749-1808)

Princess Catherine Galitzin

Portrait of Colin

Portrait of Jacques de Heusy (1719-1796), Mayor of Liège in 1760

Portrait of Michel-Étienne Turgot (1690–1751)

Portrait of Elisabeth Farnese (1692-1766)

The family of Philip V in 1738

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 Academy 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).