Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1750s.
A fine portrait of an aristocratic lady showing the qualities that made the artist such a success...
The effect of Van Loo's arrival in London on British portraiture was dynamic - the Continental refinement and polish that was characteristic of his work made much of the then fashionable painting seem stilted and old-fashioned. His style was particularly successful with portraits of women.... he had a smarter style than Richardson's, he influenced Hudson, and his manners and manner suited the upper classes better than Hogarth's.
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JEAN-BAPTISTE VAN LOO (1684-1745), born in Aix-en-Provence.
He worked in the south of France, Turin and Rome, settling in Paris in 1720 becoming a Member of the Academy.
Coming to England in 1737 he had immense success in London as a fashionable portrait painter; by 1739 he was the favourite painter of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and had painted the Princess of Wales and her family. Due to ill-health he returned to France in 1742, dying there three years later.
SIZE: 37 x 32 inches inc. frame (damages to frame)
PROVENANCE: With Philip Mould Historical Portraits Ltd, Mayfair, London.
Private Collection, England.
Verso: old collection stamps
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1750s.
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Portrait of a Lady C.1740; by Jean-baptiste Van Loo
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