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(6) (Jules-)César(-Denis) van Loo
(b Paris, 20 May 1743; d Paris, 1 July 1821). French painter, son of (3) Carle Vanloo. He studied with his father and, from 1757, at the Académie Royale, Paris. In 1767 he was approved (agréé) by the Académie, and in the same year was awarded a special bursary to study at the Académie de France in Rome, although his repeated attempts between 1764 and 1776 to win the Prix de Rome were all unsuccessful. In 1784 he was received (reçu) as a full member of the Académie Royale, on submission of Landscape with a Storm (untraced; formerly Paris, Louvre) and Landscape by Moonlight (Paris, Louvre), both in the manner of Joseph Vernet. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1785, showing his two morceaux de réception and another landscape, the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli (untraced); from then until 1817 he missed only the Salon of 1795. He is recorded in Rome in 1785 and probably returned to Paris in 1789, when he was appointed adjoint au recteur at the Académie.
Part of the Loo, van family
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