Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Life

The State of Flanders: Where Wolves Outnumbered Men
The Hague
The Affluent Bachelor
Settling Down, Moving Up
Great Success
Manslaughter
Starting Over in Saint-Germain
The Royal Academy
The Ambassador Artist
Founder of the Van Loo Dynasty

Chapter 2 - Artistic Output

Training
Studio Practice
Authenticity
History on a Grand Scale
Cabinet Pictures
Fashionable Portraiture
Paris, 1661-70

Chapter 3 - Clientele

Archival Data
Clientele
Portraiture in Amsterdam
Figure Paintings in Amsterdam
Portraits in Paris
Enduring Relationships
The Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family
The Huygens Family

Chapter 4 - The Academic Nude and its Audience

Documentary Evidence on Amsterdam's Academies
European Art Academies
The Theory of 'Welstant'
The Surviving Academic Drawings
Two Groups of Academic Draftsmen
Empathy versus 'Welstant'
Dutch Classicism: The Art of Standing Well
Van Loo's Academic Mode
An Audience for the Academic Nude

Chapter 5 - The Manslaughter Case

Homicide: A Matter of Honor
31 October 1660
Van Loo's Legal Case
Pardon Ante Sententiam
Friendship
Van Loo's 'Honorable' Homicide
Support from the Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family
'His Reputation regarding his Morality'
Homicide in a European Context

Appendices

A List of Works
B List of Early Owners
C Transcriptions

Notes
Bibliography
List of illustrations
Photocredits
Index