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Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707, Toulon – 20 March 1771, Paris) was a French painter. He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1725. With his uncle, the painter Charles-André van Loo, he went to Rome in 1727–1732, and in 1736 he became court painter to Philip V of Spain at Madrid, where he was a founder-member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1752. He returned to Paris in 1753, and painted many portraits of Louis XV of France. In 1765 he succeeded Charles-André as director of the special school of the French academy known as the École Royale des Élèves Protégés. In 1766 he made the portrait of the Portuguese statesman Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal. Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo (1708–1732) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795). File:Denis Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo.jpg|''Portrait of [[Denis Diderot]]'', painted 1767 File:Louis-Michel van Loo Princess Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golitsyna.jpg|''Princess Ekaterina Dmitrievna Golitsyna'' File:Beaujon vanloo.jpg|''[[Nicolas Beaujon]]'' File:BPC LD.jpg|''The [[Comte de Maurepas]] wearing the sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit'', painted ca. 1732-35 File:Louis-Michel Vanloo, Louise-Élisabeth de France, épouse de l'infant Philippe (1745).jpg|''[[Louise Élisabeth of France]]'', wife of l'infant Philippe File:Michel Etienne Turgo by Van Loo 1739.jpg|''[[Michel-Etienne Turgot]]'' File:The Infanta María Teresa Rafaela of Spain, future Dauphine of France by Louis Michel Van Loo.jpg|''The Infanta [[Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain]], future Dauphine of France'' File:Louis Michel van Loo - Venus, Mercurio y el Amor - Google Art ProjectFXD.jpg|''Venus, Mercury and Love'', 1748.{{Cite web|last=Fernando|first=Real Academia de BBAA de San|title=Loo, Louis Michel van - Venus, Mercurio y el Amor|url=https://www.academiacolecciones.com/pinturas/inventario.php?id=0711|access-date=31 Dece
