| Louis-michel Van Loo |
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Louis-Michel van Loo ( 1707-03-02 – 1771-03-20 ) was a French Painter . 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 Academy in 1752. He returned to Paris in 1753, and painted many portraits of Louis XV Of France . In 1765 he succeeded Charles-André as director of the special school of the French academy known as the ''École Royale des Élèves Protégés''. Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo ( 1708 – 1732 ) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe Van Loo ( 1719 – 1795 ). |
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