Charles-André van Loo
Carle or Charles-André van Loo (15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter, and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo.
Life
He was born in Nice. He received some instruction from his brother, and like him studied in Rome under Benedetto Luti. Leaving Italy in 1723, he worked in Paris, where he gained the first prize for historical painting. After again visiting Italy in 1727, he was employed by king Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, for whom he painted a series of subjects illustrative of Tasso. In 1734 he settled in Paris, and in 1735 became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and he was decorated with the Order of Saint Michael and appointed principal painter to king Louis XV of France. He died in Paris on 15 July 1765.
Work
By his simplicity of style and correctness of design, the result of his study of the great Italian masters, he did much to purify the modern French school; but the contemporary praise that was lavished upon his productions now appears undue and excessive. His Marriage of the Virgin is preserved in the Louvre.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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