Portrait of Louis XV of France
by Louis-Michel van Loo
Title
Portrait of Louis XV of France
Artist
Louis-Michel van Loo
Medium
Painting - Oil Painting
Description
Louis-Michel van Loo - Portrait of Louis XV of France
Louis-Michel van Loo 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 Acad�mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1725. With his uncle, the painter Charles-Andr� 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-Andr� as director of the special school of the French academy known as the �cole Royale des �l�ves Prot�g�s. In 1766 he made the portrait of the Portuguese statesman Sebasti�o de Melo, Marquis of Pombal.
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