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 .

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