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Charles-André van Loo

1705 - 1765

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Carle or Charles-André van Loo (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɑ̃dʁe vɑ̃ lo]; 15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765) was a French painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles-André van Loo is the 567th most popular painter (up from 643rd in 2019), the 1,732nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,896th in 2019) and the 112th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Charles-André van Loo ranks 567 out of 2,023. Before him are Francesco Filippini, Bernardo Strozzi, Wenceslaus Hollar, Jules Dupré, Theodor Kittelsen, and Wolf Vostell. After him are Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Thomas Lawrence, Mattia Preti, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Max Pechstein, and Raoul Hausmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1705, Charles-André van Loo ranks 6. Before him are Pope Clement XIV, Farinelli, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Karim Khan Zand, and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. After him are Jacques-François Blondel, David Hartley, Peter Artedi, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, and Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa. Among people deceased in 1765, Charles-André van Loo ranks 10. Before him are Alexis Clairaut, Philip, Duke of Parma, Muhammad bin Saud, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. After him are Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Carl Alexander Clerck, Edward Young, Johan Agrell, and Johann Melchior Molter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-André van Loo ranks 1,732 out of 6,770. Before him are André de Montbard (1103), Paul Abadie (1812), Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438), Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (1197), Henri Farman (1874), and Henri de Lubac (1896). After him are Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (1517), Régis Debray (1940), Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758), Louis, Prince of Condé (1668), Jacques Laffite (1943), and William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (1024).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Charles-André van Loo ranks 112. Before him are Bernard Buffet (1928), Françoise Gilot (1921), Émile Friant (1863), Paloma Picasso (1949), Pierre Puget (1620), and Jules Dupré (1811). After him are Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848), Constant Troyon (1810), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Eugène Carrière (1849), Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758), and Léon Cogniet (1794).

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