A French rococo portrait painter with a Dutch name: This is not as unusual as it sounds at first. Migration across national borders has always existed, especially among professionals and especially in artistic circles. Just think of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known not only in Spain as "El Greco".
Already the grandfather of Louis Michel van Loo was a famous artist and emigrated from Amsterdam to the South of France. His father Jean-Baptiste van Loo was born in Aix-en-Provence and took on commissions to paint public buildings at a young age. Louis-Michel himself was still born in Toulon in 1707, shortly before the family left this city due to a siege in the "War of the Spanish Succession". Louis-Michel learned the craft of painting from his father in Turin and Rome. His own second educational journey to both cities lasted four years from 1728 to 1732. His metier was detailed, colourful portraits - as colourful as the uniforms and gala toilets of the Rococo period, which as an art movement dominated almost all princely courts of Europe from around 1700 to 1770.
In 1737 he went to Madrid on recommendation - King Philip V needed a new court painter and a colleague, the important portrait painter Hyacinthe Rigaud , recommended van Loo. As I said: careers across state borders were not unusual at that time. Van Loo stayed in Spain for 15 years until 1753, where he immortalized not only Philip V himself, but also his wife Elisabetta de Farnese, the Infanta (Princess) Maria Teresa Rafaela and the family of 14. After Philip's death in 1746, King Ferdinand VI and his wife Maria Barbare de Braganza were immortalised in van Loos' studio.
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Von Loo returned to Paris in 1753, where he also advanced to become court painter, this time to King Louis XV of France, and also portrayed such famous contemporaries as the philosopher Denis Diderot, the Marquis de Sade or the "expellee of the Jesuits", Marquis de Pombal: sonorous names of an epoch that was intoxicated with its own glory and yet was already - not only financially - dancing on the brink of the abyss. Even in Russia the name van Loo is a household name today: His portrait of Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golizyna, wife of the Russian envoy of Her Majesty Catherine the Great, hangs today in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Of course, van Loo did not live to see the revolution: he died in Paris in 1771. His brothers Francois (who died young, of course) and Charles-Amédée were also famous painters of their time.
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.jpg "Felipe de Borbón y Farnesio, Infante of Spain and Duke of Parma by Louis Michel van Loo")
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_Raphaelle_Infante_dEspagne_Dau_-_(MeisterDrucke-1002990).jpg "Portrait of Marie Therese Raphaelle, Infanta of Spain, Dauphine of France (1726 - 1746) by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "An allegory of Music, La Musique, 1756 by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Louis-Auguste, Duke of Berry 1754-1793, future Louis XVI, King of France by Louis Michel van Loo")
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_pastel_on_parchment_-_(MeisterDrucke-1119904).jpg "Portrait of veiled woman by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "A Young Sultan reading a Letter by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Marquis de Marigny and his Wife, Marie-Francoise Constance Julie Filleul by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman Sitting by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Philip V, King of Spain, with His Family (detail) by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golitsyna, née Cantemir by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "The Painter Carle van Loo and His Family by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Marquis Edouard Jean de Luker by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Double Portrait of the Marquis and Marquise de Marigny, 1769 by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Queen Isabel of Farnese by Louis Michel van Loo")
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_minister_L_-_(MeisterDrucke-999440).jpg "Portrait of Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul Stainville by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "The Comtesse de Beaurepaire by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Louis Stanislas Xavier de France by Louis Marin Bonnet")
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.jpg "Portrait of Denis Diderot by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Official portrait of Queen Isabel de Farnesio by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon, Duchess of Parma, Seated, Three-quarter Length by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Louis XV in His Royal Costume by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Princess E.D. Golitsyn by Louis Michel van Loo")
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_dit_Marivaux_Fr_-_(MeisterDrucke-951266).jpg "Portrait of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, French Writer. Painting by Louis Michel Van Loo by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Denis Diderot by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Electrical Experiment (one of a series) by Louis Michel van Loo")
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_Painting_by_Louis_-_(MeisterDrucke-961742).jpg "Portrait of Pierre Carlet de Chamblan de Marivaux. Painting by Louis Michel van Loo, 1743 by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mademoiselle Salle in 1737 (Painting by Louis Michel Van Loo) by Louis Michel van Loo")
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Collection_des_Grands_Hom_-_(MeisterDrucke-1371074).jpg "Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Franklin (title on object) Collection of Great Men (series title) by Pierre Michel Alix")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1268758).jpg "Louis XV of France (1710-1774) by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Lady with a Bird, 18th century by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Woman by Louis Michel van Loo")
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_(1713-1759)_-_(MeisterDrucke-996408).jpg "Portrait of Ferdinand VI by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "The Family of Philip V, 1743 by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Nicolas-Henri Tardieu by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Carle Van Loo and his family by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of King Louis XV, full-length, wearing half Armour by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "The Family of Philip V by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Marquis and Marquise of Marigny by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "The Infante Philip of Bourbon, Duke of Parma by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Michel Etienne Turgot, 1776 by Louis Michel van Loo")
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.jpg "Venus with Mercury and Cupid by Louis Michel van Loo")
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