Jacob van Loo

Danae

Today a little-known artist, Van Loo worked in Amsterdam, where he produced portraits and genre pieces as well as history paintings and was regarded as one of the finest painters in the city. Our work is dateable to 1655-1660. In 1660 after he killed a man in an inn during a brawl Van Loo fled to Paris where he became a member of the Academie and the progenitor of a family of artists, the most famous of which was his grandson, Carle Vanloo.