Van Loo, Charles-André

Van Loo, Charles-André

▪ French painter
also called  Carle Van Loo,  Van Loo also spelled  Vanloo 
born Feb. 15, 1705, Nice, France
died July 15, 1765, Paris

      Rococo painter especially known for his elegant portraits of European royalty and fashionable society in the mid-18th century.

      He belonged to a noted family of artists of Flemish origin. His elder brother, Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, brought him up and taught him his profession. In 1724 C.-A. Van Loo won first prize in the French Royal Academy competition. He went to Rome in 1728 and was awarded various distinctions. On his way back to Paris he stopped in Turin, where he painted works for the king of Sardinia's palaces. After his return to Paris in 1734, he became a professor at the Academy in 1737 and in 1763 was elected director. Van Loo was appointed first painter to the king and shared with François Boucher (Boucher, François) the favour of Paris society and foreign courts. Mme de Pompadour (Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de) commissioned him to work at her château at Bellevue.

      Van Loo was acknowledged as a leading painter of historical and religious subjects in France during the Rococo period. Though versatile in style and technically facile, he was not particularly original. His precise, detailed genre scenes, somewhat reminiscent of Nicolas Lancret (Lancret, Nicolas), were greatly admired and influenced many painters.

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