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 obliged to leave Paris, whence he retired to Nice on account of a duel; travelled afterwards in the south of France and settled at Aix, where he married in 1683, and became the father of Jean Baptiste and Carle van Loo. There is a St. Francis by him in the Chapel of the Black Penitents at Toulon, and a fresco at Aix.—Archives de l'Art français, Documents, vi. 162; Michiels, x. 36; Revue des Deux Mondes (1842), xxi. 487.

LOO, LOUIS MICHEL VAN, born at Toulon, March 2, 1707, died in Paris, March 20, 1771. French school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jean Baptiste; won in 1725 the grand prix de Rome, and on his return to Paris was received into the Academy in 1733, and became adjunct professor in 1735. On the death of Ranc he was appointed court-painter by Philip V. of Spain, who bestowed many honours upon him. On Philip's death he returned to Paris, and succeeded his uncle Carle as director of the Royal School of Art. Order of St. Michael, 1748. Works: Apollo pursuing Daphne (1733), Louvre; Portrait of Infante Don Felipe, Family of Philip V., Young Infanta as Venus, Portrait of Philip V., Madrid Museum; Portraits of Louis XV. (2), Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duc de Choiseul, Duc de Praslin, Louis XVI., Comte de Provence (afterwards Louis XVIII.), Comte d'Artois (afterwards Charles X.), Philip V. of Spain, Elizabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, Philip V. and his Family (sketch to picture in Madrid Museum), Duc de La Vrillière (1769), Carle van Loo (1764), do. and his Family (1757), Portrait of himself, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, ii. 625; Larousse, xv. 767; Nagler, xix. 373; Revue des Deux Mondes (1842), xxi. 510; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Madrazo.

LOON, THEODORUS VAN, the younger, born in Brussels about 1595, died about 1678. Flemish school; history painter. Lived for a long time in Rome and Florence, and formed his style after Carlo Maratti. Colouring often black in the shadows. Works: Assumption, Antwerp Museum; Adoration of Shepherds, Assumption, Brussels Museum; Marriage of St. Catharine, Infant Christ offered to God, Annunciation, Béguinage, Brussels.—Kramm, iv. 1010; Michiels, x. 346; Siret (1883), i. 564.

LOOP, HENRY A., born at Hillsdale, N. Y., in 1831. Figure and portrait painter, pupil of Henry Peters Gray and of Couture. Visited Europe in 1856, and again in 1867, studying in Paris, Rome, Venice, and Florence. Elected N.A. in 1861. Studio in New York. Works: Undine (1863); Clytie (1865); Italian Minstrel (1868); Lake Maggiore (1870); Venice (1875); Aphrodite, Œnone (1877); Hermia, Marina (1878); Echo (1879); At the Spring (1880); Idyl of the Lake (1881); Love's Crown (1882); Awakening (1883); Summer Moon (1884). Portraits: J. M. Ward; Dr. Reisig; J. P. Townsend (1876); W. Whittredge; Portrait (1879), St. Luke's Hospital, New York; Professor E. Loomis (1882). Mrs. Henry A. Loop paints portraits and genre pictures; pupil of Professor Louis Bail, of New Haven; studied two years in Rome, Paris, and Venice. Elected an A.N.A. in 1875. Studio with her husband.—Sheldon, 215.

LOOS, FRIEDRICH, born in Gratz, Styria, Oct. 29, 1797. Landscape painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy; afterwards travelled in the Alps (1821), in Hungary (1823-26), Salzburg (1826-29), Istria (1840); visited Rome in 1846, Naples in 1847. In 1851 finished a panorama of ancient and modern Rome in 17 pictures, equally poetic in conception and truthful. He then went via Berlin to Bremen, Oldenburg, and Copenhagen, and in 1853 settled in Kiel; visited Norway in 1856, and was appointed professor of drawing at the University of Kiel in 1863. He painted also a few good portraits, among them his own (1837). Works: Three Views around Salzburg, Saw-Mill in Styria (1830); Two Views of Salzburg (1831); The Ramsau near Berchtesgaden (1836), Vienna Museum; River-*Bank with Birch-Trees (1837), Alpine Fes