Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719 – 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.

• In Rome 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.

• That year he married his cousin Marie-Marguerite Lebrun, daughter of the painter Michel Lebrun.

• He was the author of the only known real-life portrait of the Marquis de Sade.

• Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo and Louis-Michel van Loo.

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