LOOSE tival near Salzburg (1837), Iron-Works in Austrian Alps (1838), View on the Kahlen- berg near Vienna (1842), Klosterneuburg (1843), View on the Danube (1844), Castle near Ybbs (184(i), Hungarian Village (1844), Vienna Art Union ; Mill in the Valley (1838); View of Jormannsdorf (1839) ; Evening on the RGthelstein (1840) ; Mountain Land- scape near Vienna (184(5) ; Views near Ter- racina (1848, 1849); Vico near Naples (1854); Pirano in Istria (1855) ; Destroyed Giant's Grave on Baltic Coast (I860), Oldenburg- Art Union ; Hum of Stor-Hamar Cathedral (1857), Christiania Gallery ; Cow-Stable in Austria (I860), Kiel Art Union ; Strand of Sorrento (18G4) ; Old Church in Schleswig (18(16). -Andresen, ii. 19S. LOOSE, BASILE DE, born at Zeele, Flanders, Dec. 17, 1809. Genre paint- er, son and pupil of Joannes Josephus de Loose, and pupil of Antwerp Academy ; went in 1835 to study in Paris, set- tled in Brussels; imitatesTerburgand kindred masters of the 17th century. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1841. Works: Maiden at Toilet-Table; The Present ; The Swing ; Boys' Tricks ; Flemish Kirmess ; Children's Festival at School, Lace Maker with Child (1858), Leip- sic Museum ; Company in Tavern (184G), Dutch Family Scene (184(5), National Gal- lery, Berlin ; Girls' School in the Country, Stettin Museum. Innnerzecl, ii. 18(5 ; Miil- ler, 342 ; Kramm, iv. 1011. LOOSE, JOANNES JOSEPHUS DE, born at Zeele, Flanders, Nov. 22, 1770. History painter, pupil of Ghent Academy, where in 1794 he obtained the first prize ; studied then in Mechlin under Herreyns, and afterwards became professor at the Academy of Design at St. Nicolaas, East Flanders. Works : St. Cornelia blessing Children, St. Jacob's, Ghent ; Martyrdom of St. Apollo- nia ; Martyrdom of St. Barbara ; Christ driving the Venders from the Temple (1822); Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1828); Fes- tive Scene with sixteen portraits. Imnier- zeel, ii. 185 ; Nagler, viii. 48. LOOTEN (Loten), JAN, born in Amster- dam about 1G18, died in London in 1681. Dutch school ; landscape painter. Seems to have worked first in Switzerland, then in Holland, and to have gone to England about 1662 and painted for Charles H. His usual subjects were rocky scenes, dark oak-woods, rushing torrents, and wild solitudes. An inky colouring detracts much from the ef- fect of his finely composed, well-drawn, and truthful pictures. Was an imitator of Hob- bema. Works : River Scene, National Gal- lery, London ; Sportsmen in a AVood (1658), Rotterdam Museum ; Three landscapes, Dresden Gallery ; Stag-Hunt (1659), Berlin Museum ; Consecration of a Church, View //" across a River / f> (1656), Copenha- cV ^00//?^gen Gallery; Landscape with Travellers,Kunst- halle, Hamburg ; Rocky Landscape (1675), Beech-wood, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna. Kugler (Crowe), ii. 481 ; Kramm, iv. 1012. LOPEZ Y PORTAXA, VICENTE, born in Valencia in 1772, died in Madrid in 1855 (1850?). History and portrait painter, pu- pil of the Franciscan monk Villanueva, and in Madrid of Maella ; became director of Valencia Academy, made court-painter in 1802, and called to Madrid in 1814 to in- struct the second and third queens of Fer- dinand VII. ; appointed director-general of Madrid, Saragossa, and Valencia Academies. Works : Charles IV. and his Family, Charles HI. instituting his Order, Adoration of San- ta Forma, Death of Abradates, Portraits of Queen Maria Christina de Bourbon, Queen Maria Amalia, Queen Maria Isabel de Bra- ganza, Queen Maria Antonia of Naples, In- fante Don Antonio, Francisco Goya, Felix Maximo Lopez, Madrid Museum ; SS. Au- 98
