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-
