LOO obliged to leave Paris, whence he retired to Nice oil account of a duel ; travelled after- wards in the south of France and settled at Aix, where he married iu 1G83, 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 1'Art fran- 9ais, Documents, vi. 1C2 ; Michiels, x. 30 ; 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 por- trait painter, son and pupil of Jean Bap- tiste ; 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 Bane 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 pur- suing 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'Orh'ans, Due de Choiseul, Due de Praslin, Louis XVI., Comte de Provence (afterwards Louis XVIII), Comte d'Artois (afterwards Charles X.), Philip V. of Spain, Elizabeth Faruese, | Queen of Spain, Philip V. and his Family (sketch to picture in Madrid Museum), Due de La Vrilliere (1769), Carle van Loo (1764), do. and his Family (1757), Portrait of him- self, 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 young- er, born in Brussels about 1595, died about 1678. Flemish school ; history painter. Lived for a long time in Rome and Flor- ence, and formed his style after Carlo Ma- ratti. Colouring often black in the shad- ows. Works : Assumption, Antwerp Mu- seum ; Adoration of Shepherds, Assump- tion, Brussels Museum ; Marriage of St. Catharine, Infant Christ offered to God, An- nunciation, Bi'guinage, Brussels. Kramm, iv. 1010 ; Michiels, x. 346 ; Siret (1883), i. 564. LOOP, HENRY A., born at Hillsdale, N. Y., in 1831. Figure and portrait paint- er, pupil of Henry Peters Gray and of Cou- ture. Visited Europe in 1856, and again in 1867, studying in Paris, Rome, Venice, and Florence. Elected N.A. in 1861. Stu- dio in New York. Works : Undine (1863) ; Clytie (1865); Italian Minstrel (1868); Lake Maggiore (1870); Venice (1875); Aphrodite, (Enone (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 ; Pro- fessor 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 Ven- ice. Elected an A.N.A. in 1875. Studio with her husband. Sheldon, 215. LOOS, FHIEDRICH, born in Gratz, Styria, Oct. 2!), 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 Co- penhagen, and in 1853 settled iu Kiel ; vis- ited 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 Berch- tesgaden (1836), Vienna Museum ; River- Bank with Birch-Trees (1837), Alpine Fes- 97
