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Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo

1719 - 1795

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Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (25 August 1719 – 15 November 1795) was a French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits. He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, where in 1738 he won the Prix de Rome, then at Aix-en-Provence, before returning to Paris in 1745. He was invited to join the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1747, and that year he married his cousin Marie-Marguerite Lebrun, daughter of the painter Michel Lebrun (died 1753). He was the author of the only known real-life portrait of the Marquis de Sade. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo is the 1,338th most popular painter (down from 846th in 2019), the 3,000th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,164th in 2019) and the 242nd most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo ranks 1,338 out of 2,023. Before him are Serge Poliakoff, Louis Hersent, Marlene Dumas, Alexey Venetsianov, Janis Rozentāls, and Juliusz Kossak. After him are Federico Zandomeneghi, Unkei, Tarō Okamoto, Gerard de Lairesse, Joaquín Torres-García, and Alan Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1719, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo ranks 15. Before him are Adel Shah, Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp, Christian Mayer, Pierre Poivre, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. After him are Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, Thomas Gage, Michel-Jean Sedaine, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani. Among people deceased in 1795, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo ranks 27. Before him are James Boswell, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Michel Corrette, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Grigory Shelikhov, and Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Maruyama Ōkyo, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Johan Henric Kellgren, William Bradford, and Eugenio Espejo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo ranks 3,000 out of 5,161. Before him are Pietro Grasso (1945), Massimo Oddo (1976), Edoardo Reja (1945), Enzo G. Castellari (1938), Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654), and Carlo Rosselli (1899). After him are Pellegrino Rossi (1787), Federico Zandomeneghi (1841), Benedict Menni (1841), Romano Scarpa (1927), Marco Di Meco (1982), and Angelo Anquilletti (1943).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo ranks 242. Before him are Vincenzo Camuccini (1771), Franciabigio (1484), Girolamo Savoldo (1480), Luca Carlevarijs (1663), Marco Basaiti (1470), and Daniele Crespi (1598). After him are Federico Zandomeneghi (1841), Vitale da Bologna (1289), Valerio Adami (1935), Bartolo di Fredi (1330), Boccaccio Boccaccino (1460), and Giulia Lama (1681).

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