Jacob van Loo (1614 -1670) - Dutch painter, founder of the dynasty of French artists

Jacob van Loo (van Loo) Jacob van Loo (Vanloo) (Slyus 1614 - November 26, 1670 in Paris) - one of the greatest Dutch masters painting of the XVII century, the founder of the dynasty of French works of art van Loo.

JACOB VAN LOO Description (1660 Reysmuzeum, Amsterdam)

Cloths its exquisite selection of different colors, are widely known with nude brush Jacob van Loo. He also wrote numerous portraits, mythological painting, was the acknowledged master of genre painting. Was under the creative influence of Vermeer of Delft.

Young Woman Going to Bed (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon)

Jacob van Loo was born in 1614 in Zealand, one of the United Provinces. There is some confusion in the sources on the activities of his father, Johannes Van Loo: according to some, he was a notary, while other sources describe him as an artist, and even indicate that he was the first teacher of his son. As a young man, Jacob was under the influence of painting Thomas de Keyser and Jacob Becker.

Early Years artist slaboizucheny at the loss of his home town archives Slyus during World War II.
known that Jacob in 1635, he moved to Amsterdam, where he then worked masters such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals, in 1642, his name is mentioned in the archives.
In 1643, he married Anna Lengyel , the sister of the painter Martinus Lengyel, which it authorized to issue over one-quarter share in the goldsmith's house in The Hague. Jacob and his wife in 1645, made a will, by the time his mother apparently still lived in Slyuse. Although a year later, he received an inheritance from a woman who lived in Ghent.

In 1652, Jacob has paid a fee to acquire the rights of citizenship in Amsterdam, by the time he was known as a master painter.
In 1654, the poet Jan Vos admired his work, comparing it with Rembrandt, Govartom Flinck and Ferdinand Bol.
Van Loo name also appears in the list of artists Constantine Huygens , selected him as a potential candidate for the decoration of Huis ten Bosch (Jacob and Becker were the only artists from Amsterdam), but he did not receive this order.
Jacob van Loo was a teacher Eglonil Van der Nir, according to historian Houbrakenu, which also mentions that Van Loo "excelled in painting nudes (nude)».
August 7, 1660, Jacob made a will naming the heirs of their six children. At the time, he lived on the streets Rozengraht (Rozengracht) in Amsterdam and apparently had poor health.

There are a number of documents that describe the incident in 1660, in which Jacob was in France.
Wine merchant named Hendrik Brad started a brawl in the garden tavern «Hoff van Vrieslandt». Breda opponent was a deputy sheriff Lawrence Pelgromom.
During the fight Brad is supposed to have used abusive and threatening to Pelgroma expression, saying, "You filthy cur! I would teach you a lesson, if my wife was not here in the basement. " In the judicial archives of October 31, 1660 revealed that Jacob van Loo, present at this fight, stabbed Brad, "causing a knife wound in the navel, which later caused the death of Breda».
As a result, Van Loo was forced to flee Amsterdam. He was sentenced to death in absentia, and he was banned from ever entering the province of Holland and West Friesland.

Jacob settled in Paris, where in 1663 he became a member of the Academy of Arts. The painting, which he presented to be admitted to the Academy, was a portrait painter Michel Corneille (1601-1664), which is now in the Louvre.

Jacob van Loo died in Paris on November 26, 1670

His two sons were painters in the South of France: Jean (1682-94) worked in Toulon, and Louis - Abraham (1656-1712) in Toulon and Aix -en-Provence.

last of three sons, Jean - Baptiste van Loo has been successful historical painter in Italy and France, and then moved to England and achieved even greater success, as portraitist. He also contributed a career brother Charles ( Charles - Andre ), the most famous member of the family Van Loo, who rewrote the name in the French manner van Loo. The third son of Louis - Abraham, Joseph , was an engraver.

sons Jean - Baptiste, also became painters. The eldest, Louis Michel , worked in Rome and Paris, but was mostly known as a portrait painter of the Spanish court, exerting a powerful influence on the development of Spanish painting of the 18th century.
Promising second career son Francois (1708-32) was cut to his early death. The youngest of the three, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo , became the court painter of King Frederick the Great of Prussia, drawing historical paintings and portraits. The last artist of the family van Loo - Cesar , the son of Charles - he worked in Paris and Turin, specializing in the winter landscape.

Lovers. (1650-1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) previously attributed to Caesar van Everdingen


Danaë (1640 - 1670)


Danae


Venus and Adonis (Collection Pieter Locquet, Amsterdam)


Venus and Cupid. (1628-1670 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)


Diana and Her Nymphs (1654, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)


Diana and her nymphs


Diana and Callisto (Musée du Colombier, Alès)


Diana and Actaeon


Diana and Callisto


Diana and Her Nymphs (circa 1650, Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum)


Diana mit ihren Nymphen (1648 , Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie)


Diana und Kallisto


Bacchic Scene (1653, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

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Paris and Oenone (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) Giuseppe Canale After Jacob van Loo (1614-1670)


Venus in the Forge of Vulcan



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Silvio and the Wounded Dorinda (London)


Amarillis Crowning Mirtillo (1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)


LANDSCAPE WITH A NYMPH AND SATYRS


Ariadne. (1652, Wilanów Palace Museum)


Allegory of riches (Musée Condé, Chantilly)


An Allegorical Vanitas with Homo Bulla


La Mélancolie (Musée Thomas-Henry, Cherbourg-Octeville)


Allegory winter.


Cimon and Ighigenie


Bethsabée au bain (Louvre Museum)


Lot and his daughters


Susannah and the Elders (1658, Glasgow Museums)


The Agony in the Garden


Zerubbabel displays a plan of Jerusalem to Cyrus the Great (1640-1670). Zerubbabel shows Cyrus the Great Map of Jerusalem


The letter


Studie van een vrouw (Louvre, Paris)


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Girl with fruit (Collection Lingenauber, Monaco)




Amorous couple (Mauritshuis, The Hague)


Compagnie Faisant de la Musique (about 1640-1670 Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)


Concert ( 1650-52, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg)


Man playing flute with a woman


Elegant company listening to music on a terrace


Elegant company making music in a classical landscape


Genre scene. (1670s, Wawel Royal Castle)


A scientist in his room (Schloß Ehrenburg, Coburg)


Young man reading
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A Glass and Coral Factory. (1629-1670 Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)


indulgent old (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)


Mother with two children (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)



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Groepsportret van de regentessen van het Aalmoezeniers-, Arm-en Werkhuis te Haarlem (1659, Frans Hals Museum)


Portrait of the Meebeeck Cruywagen family near the gate of their country home on the Uitweg near Amsterdam. (About 1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) previously attributed to Thomas de Keyser, Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp


Portrait of Rutger van Weert, Maria Beels and their six children


Portrait of the family Van der Burgh


The French Royal Family in circa 1663 "(from left to right: Queen Anne, Henriette of England, Madame, Duchess of Orléans with Marie Louise d'Orléans (future Queen of Spain ), Bust of King Louis XIII, Queen Marie Thérèse, Philippe, Monsieur, Duke of Orléans (only brother of the king), King Louis XIV, in the center of the dog - Louis, Dauphin of France) (about 1663)


Boy with Top and Dog (1650-55)


Boy with his dog (Musée Baron-Martin, Gray)


Portrait of William II of Orange-Nassau (1626 - 1650), a child (Attributed to Jacob van Loo).


Portrait of a Lady


Portrait of Thomas Corneille (1625-1709)


Portrait of a Gentleman (1656)
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Portrait of a man (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims)


Portrait de Michel Corneille le père, peintre et recteur de l'Académie royale (1601-1664) (near 1663, Louvre Museum)


Frauenbildnis (Gdańsk, Centralne Muzeum Morskie)


Pierre de Marca, Archbishop of Paris (1663)


Portrait of Sophia Coymans


Portrait of a gentleman (1668, Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University)


Woman and child (Wellesley College Museum Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley)


Portrait of a woman
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Portrait of Johan Ort


Portret van een man, vermoedelijk Christoffel van Gangelt (1670, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

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