Jean-Baptiste van Loo

Jean -Baptiste van Loo ( born January 14, 1684 Aix -en- Provence; ibid † December 19, 1745, at the Pavillon de Vendôme ) was a French painter of the Rococo period.

Jean -Baptiste van Loo was taught by his father Louis- Abraham van Loo and had a very young age commissions for churches and public buildings in Aix and Toulon, which he left in 1707 during the siege. His patron, the Prince of Carignan sent him to Rome, where he studied under Benedetto Luti. In Rome he painted many pictures for churches, and especially his " Flagellation of Christ " for the Church of Santa Maria in Monticelli was there much admired. He also supervised over his orphaned after the death of the father 's younger brother Charles André van Loo, who is also a noted painter was training. About Turin, where he portrayed Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, and members of his court, he went to Paris, where he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts. He painted several altarpieces and restored the works of Francesco Primatice in Fontainebleau.

1737 he went to England, where he was carried portraits of the poet and impresario Colley Cibber and the theater manager Owen McSwiny known and also the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Walpole ( National Portrait Gallery ) and the Prince of Wales, who was also a patron of the arts painted. For health reasons, he returned to Paris in 1742 and moved back over to his home town of Aix. He moved from the 1730 Pavillon de Vendôme, where he died and where some of his works are on display today.

Two of his sons were also painters: Louis- Michel van Loo (1707-1771) and Charles- Amédée -Philippe van Loo ( 1719-1795 ).