Charles-André van Loo

Carle or Charles-André van Loo (15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter, and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo.

Life

He was born in Nice. He received some instruction from his brother, and like him studied in Rome under Benedetto Luti. Leaving Italy in 1723, he worked in Paris, where he gained the first prize for historical painting. After again visiting Italy in 1727, he was employed by king Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, for whom he painted a series of subjects illustrative of Tasso. In 1734 he settled in Paris, and in 1735 became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and he was decorated with the Order of St Michel and appointed principal painter to king Louis XV of France. He died in Paris on 15 July 1765.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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