Jean-Baptiste van Loo

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Jean-Baptiste van Loo (born January 14, 1684 in Aix-en-Provence , † December 19, 1745 there , in the Pavillon de Vendôme ) was a French Rococo painter .

Jean-Baptiste van Loo was tutored by his father, the Amsterdam Lodewijk Abraham van Loo, and from a young age he had orders for churches and public buildings in Aix and Toulon , which he left during the siege in 1707 . His patron the Prince of Carignan sent him to Rome , where he studied with Benedetto Luti . In Rome he painted many pictures for churches, and especially his “Flagellation of Christ” for the church of Santa Maria in Monticelli was much admired there. He also watched over the education of his younger brother Charles André van Loo , who was orphaned after the death of his father and who also became a well-known painter. About Turin, where he portrayed Charles Emmanuel II , Duke of Savoy and members of his court, he went to Paris , where he was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. He painted several altarpieces and restored the works of Francesco Primaticcio in Fontainebleau .

In 1737 he went to England, where he became known through portraits of the poet and impresario Colley Cibber and the theater manager Owen McSwiny and also painted the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Robert Walpole (National Portrait Gallery) and the Prince of Wales , who was also an art patron. For health reasons, he returned to Paris in 1742 and moved back to his hometown of Aix. From 1730 he moved into the Pavillon de Vendôme , where he died and where some of his works are exhibited today.

Two of his sons were also painters: Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795).

Web links

Commons : Jean-Baptiste van Loo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Provence . Hachette, Paris 1965, p. 54
  2. ^ Ines Mache, Stefan Brandenburg: Provence. 7th edition. Reise Know-How Verlag Rump, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8317-2022-4 , pp. 443-444.
personal data
SURNAME Loo, Jean-Baptiste van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1745
Place of death Aix-en-Provence