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 called to Berlin, where he executed a number of works as court-painter to Frederick the Great. Received into Paris Academy in 1747, professor in 1770, adjunct rector in 1790. Works: Portrait of Frederick the Great, Hampton Court Gallery; Procession of Silenus, Nancy Museum; others in San Souci and Potsdam.—Bellier, ii.; Jal, 797; Nagler, xix. 363.

LOO, CHARLES ANDRÉ VAN (Carle Vanloo), born at Nice, Feb. 15, 1705, died in Paris, July 15, 1765. French school; history painter, son of Louis van Loo and pupil of his brother Jean Baptiste, who took him to Rome and placed him under Benedetto Luti and the sculptor Le Gros. After Le Gros' death (1719) he returned to Paris, and won the first prize for drawing in 1723, and the grand prix de Rome in 1724; was in Rome again in 1727, became Member of Academy of St. Luke, and was knighted by the Pope in 1731. Member French Academy, 1735; professor, 1737; director of Royal School of Art, 1749; Order of St. Michael, 1751; rector of Academy, 1754; director of Academy and first painter to the king, 1763. Works: Æneas carrying Anchises from Troy (1729), Marriage of the Virgin (1730), Apollo flaying Marsyas (1735), Repose from the Chase (1737), Portrait of Marie Leczinska (1747), Louvre; Jacob purifying his House (1724); Apotheosis of St. Isidore (1727), St. Isidore, Rome; St. Francis, St. Martha (bought by Franciscans of Tarascon); Woman with Bracelet (owned in England); Resurrection, Cathedral of Besançon; Portrait of Louis XV. (1763), Grand Trianon; do. (2), Architect Soufflot, Male portrait (1759), Versailles Museum; Bear-hunt, Ostrich-hunt, Augustus closing Temple of Janus, Amiens Museum; Wisdom trampling upon Vanities of the World, Man between Vice and Virtue, Cambrai Museum; Marshal de Brancas, Rennes Museum; Equestrian portrait, Marseilles Museum; Portraits of Louis XV., Marie Leczinska, and a Marshal of France, Orléans Museum; Martyrdom of St. Andrew, St. Clotilda at Tomb of St. Martin, Æneas and Anchises, Ecstasy of St. Augustine, Angers Museum; Theseus overcoming the Minotaur, Besançon Museum; Augustus receiving Ambassadors of Barbarous Nations, Bordeaux Museum; St. George, Martyrdom of St. Denis, Portrait of Louis XV., Dijon Museum; Drunken Silenus, Portraits of Louis XV. (2), Nancy Museum; Portraits of himself and of his mother, Nîmes Museum; Madonna, Rouen Museum; Madonna, Uffizi, Florence; Apotheosis of St. Gregory, Juno with Venus and Cupid, Perseus and Andromeda, Portrait of himself (1762), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait of Luisa Isabel de Bourbon, Madrid Museum; Roman Charity, Musée Rath, Geneva.—L'Art (1875), i. 289; Bellier, ii. 626; Ch. Blanc, École française, ii.; Houssaye, Gal. du xviii. Siècle, ii. 250; Jal, 797; Larousse, xv. 766; Michiels, x. 47; Revue des Deux Mondes (1842), xxi. 500; Wurzbach, Fr. Mal. des xviii. Jahrh., 29.

LOO, JAKOB VAN, born at Sluys, Flanders, in 1614, died in Paris, Nov. 26, 1670. Dutch school; portrait painter, son and pupil of Jan van Loo, then pupil of Abraham van den Tempel. Lived in 1652-60 in Amsterdam, where he painted portraits and small figures in the landscapes of Wynants the elder and Hobbema; went thence to Paris, became naturalized, and was received into the Academy in 1663. Works: Regent Pieces (2, 1658, 1659), Haarlem Museum; Portrait of Michel Corneille the