Louis-Michel van Loo

Training under Jean-Baptiste van Loo is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting and portrait painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Italy, Paris and Spain. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are The Family of Philip V. Work by Louis-Michel van Loo is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Nationalmuseum, musée d'Ansembourg and Museu de Lisboa. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and resident at the Villa Medici.

• Born — 2 March 1707 • Birthplace — Toulon, Provence, France • Died — 20 March 1771 • Place of death — Paris, France • Parents — Jean-Baptiste Loo

He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1725. With his uncle the painter Charles-André van Loo, he went to Rome in 1727–1732, and in 1736 he became court painter to Philip V of Spain at Madrid, where he was a founder-member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1752. He returned to Paris in 1753, and painted many portraits of Louis XV. In 1765, he succeeded Charles-André as director of the special school of the French academy known as the École Royale des Élèves Protégés. In 1766, he made the portrait of the Portuguese statesman Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal. Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo (1708–1732) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795).