Louis Michel Vanloo (1707-1771)

• Was a French painter.
• He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome.
• 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.
• 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.
• Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo.

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