Louis-Michel van Loo

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Self-portrait of Louis-Michel van Loo.

Portrait of Denis Diderot, painted 1767

Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707, Toulon – 20 March 1771, Paris) was a French painter.

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).

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Paintings

The Family of Philip V (1743)
Fernando VI

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 24709970 LCCN: nr2003019250 ISNI: 0000 0000 6638 8598 GND: 124014259 BNF: cb149542402 ULAN: 500011585

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Name	Loo, Louis-Michel Van
Alternative names	Loo, Louis-Michael Van
Short description	French painter
Date of birth	2 March 1707
Place of birth
Date of death	20 March 1771
Place of death

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