Louis-Abraham van Loo

Louis-Abraham van Loo (French pronunciation: [lwi abʁaam vɑ̃ lo]; 1653 in Amsterdam – 1712 in Nice), known as just Abraham van Loo until his conversion to Catholicism in 1681 and also known as Louis or Ludovic van Loo, was a baroque mannerist painter and a member of the van Loo dynasty of painters. Louis-Abraham was the son of the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Loo and father to the painters Jean-Baptiste van Loo and Charles-André van Loo (known as Carle van Loo.)^[1] The majority of Louis-Abraham’s paintings were of religious subject matter. Louis-Abraham received painting and fresco commissions from the church and from a number of enclosed religious orders in Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Grasse, Majorca and Nice. He also received commissions to complete the fine decoration (including paintings for the officer’s quarters) of several ships of the Marine Royale (French Navy) at Toulon. He died in Nice in 1712.^[2]