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Jacobus Van Looy

Jacobus Van Looy (1855 - 1930) was active/lived in Netherlands.  Jacobus Van Looy is known for Portrait, figure, still life, genre and landscape painting.

Jacobus (Jac) van Looy (September 12, 1855, Haarlem - February 24, 1930, Haarlem) was a Dutch painter and writer.
 
Van Looy was the son of a carpenter, but his father lost his job when his eyesight began to fail.  His mother died when he was five years old and when his father died soon afterward, he ended up in the Haarlem municipal orphanage.  He trained to become a house painter, but was able to follow drawing classes, from 1877 at the "Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten" in Amsterdam.
 
In 1884, he received the Prix de Rome, which allowed him to travel.  The years 1885-86 he spent traveling through Italy, Spain, and Morocco.  There he began to draw sketches, which are collected in two volumes.  Until 1894 he lived in Amsterdam, when he married Titia van Gelder and moved to Soest.  In 1901, he spent another year in Spain and Morocco.  He moved back to Haarlem in 1913, when the orphanage where he grew up was converted to the F   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2318 characters.]  Artist bio

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