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JOHN BAPTIST VANLOO (1684-1745)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BAPTIST See also:VANLOO (1684-1745)  , See also:French subject and portrait painter, was See also:born at See also:Aix in See also:Provence on the 14th of See also:January 1684 . He was instructed in See also:art by his See also:father . Having at an See also:early See also:age executed several pictures for the decoration of the See also:church and public buildings at Aix, he was employed on similar See also:work at See also:Toulon, which he was obliged to leave during the See also:siege of 1707 . He was patronized by the See also:prince of Carignan, who sent him to See also:Rome, where he studied under Benedetto Luti . Here he was much employed on church pictures, and in particular executed a greatly praised " Scourging of See also:Christ " for St Maria in Monticelli . At See also:Turin he painted the See also:duke of See also:Savoy and several members of his See also:court . Then, removing to See also:Paris, where he was elected a member of the French See also:Academy, he executed various See also:altar-pieces and restored the See also:works of Primaticcio at See also:Fontainebleau . In 1737 he went to See also:England, where he attracted See also:attention by his portrait of See also:Colley See also:Cibber and of See also:Owen McSwiny, the theatrical manager; the latter, like many other of See also:Vanloo's works, was engraved in See also:mezzotint by the younger See also:Faber . He also painted See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole, whose portrait by Vanloo in his See also:robes as See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer is in the See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery (See also:London), and the prince and princess of See also:Wales . He did not, however, practise See also:long in England, for.his See also:health failing he retired to Paris in 1742, and afterwards to Aix, where he died on the 19th of See also:December 1745, His likenesses were striking and faithful, but seldom flattering, and his heads are forcible in colouring . The draperies and accessories in his pictures were usually painted by See also:Van Achen, Eccardt and See also:Root .

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