called to Berlin, where he executed a number of works as court-painter to Frederick the Great. Received into Paris Academy in 1747, professor in 1770, adjunct rector in 1790. Works: Portrait of Frederick the Great, Hampton Court Gallery; Procession of Silenus, Nancy Museum; others in San Souci and Potsdam.—Bellier, ii.; Jal, 797; Nagler, xix. 363.
LOO, CHARLES ANDRÉ VAN (Carle
Vanloo), born at
Nice, Feb. 15, 1705,
died in Paris, July
15, 1765. French
school; history
painter, son of
Louis van Loo and
pupil of his brother
Jean Baptiste, who
took him to Rome
and placed him under
Benedetto Luti and the sculptor Le
Gros. After Le Gros' death (1719) he returned
to Paris, and won the first prize for
drawing in 1723, and the grand prix de
Rome in 1724; was in Rome again in
1727, became Member of Academy of St.
Luke, and was knighted by the Pope in
1731. Member French Academy, 1735;
professor, 1737; director of Royal School of
Art, 1749; Order of St. Michael, 1751; rector
of Academy, 1754; director of Academy and
first painter to the king, 1763. Works:
Æneas carrying Anchises from Troy (1729),
Marriage of the Virgin (1730), Apollo flaying
Marsyas (1735), Repose from the Chase
(1737), Portrait of Marie Leczinska (1747),
Louvre; Jacob purifying his House (1724);
Apotheosis of St. Isidore (1727), St. Isidore,
Rome; St. Francis, St. Martha (bought by
Franciscans of Tarascon); Woman with
Bracelet (owned in England); Resurrection,
Cathedral of Besançon; Portrait of Louis
XV. (1763), Grand Trianon; do. (2), Architect
Soufflot, Male portrait (1759), Versailles
Museum; Bear-hunt, Ostrich-hunt, Augustus
closing Temple of Janus, Amiens Museum;
Wisdom trampling upon Vanities of
the World, Man between Vice and Virtue,
Cambrai Museum; Marshal de Brancas,
Rennes Museum; Equestrian portrait, Marseilles
Museum; Portraits of Louis XV.,
Marie Leczinska, and a Marshal of France,
Orléans Museum; Martyrdom of St. Andrew,
St. Clotilda at Tomb of St. Martin,
Æneas and Anchises, Ecstasy of St. Augustine,
Angers Museum; Theseus overcoming
the Minotaur, Besançon Museum; Augustus
receiving Ambassadors of Barbarous
Nations, Bordeaux Museum; St. George,
Martyrdom of St. Denis, Portrait of Louis
XV., Dijon Museum; Drunken Silenus,
Portraits of Louis XV. (2), Nancy Museum;
Portraits of himself and of his mother, Nîmes
Museum; Madonna, Rouen Museum; Madonna,
Uffizi, Florence; Apotheosis of St.
Gregory, Juno with Venus and Cupid, Perseus
and Andromeda, Portrait of himself
(1762), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait
of Luisa Isabel de Bourbon, Madrid Museum;
Roman Charity, Musée Rath, Geneva.—L'Art
(1875), i. 289; Bellier, ii. 626; Ch.
Blanc, École française, ii.; Houssaye, Gal.
du xviii. Siècle, ii. 250; Jal, 797; Larousse,
xv. 766; Michiels, x. 47; Revue des Deux
Mondes (1842), xxi. 500; Wurzbach, Fr.
Mal. des xviii. Jahrh., 29.
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LOO, JAKOB VAN, born at Sluys, Flanders, in 1614, died in Paris, Nov. 26, 1670. Dutch school; portrait painter, son and pupil of Jan van Loo, then pupil of Abraham van den Tempel. Lived in 1652-60 in Amsterdam, where he painted portraits and small figures in the landscapes of Wynants the elder and Hobbema; went thence to Paris, became naturalized, and was received into the Academy in 1663. Works: Regent Pieces (2, 1658, 1659), Haarlem Museum; Portrait of Michel Corneille the
