Yesterday was the day of remembrance of the death of Jean - Baptiste van Loo . Though van Loo is not very well known today , he was frequently mention in late-19th and early-20th century dictionaries and cyclopedia of artists . His 1722 painting , " The Triumph of Galatea , " is one of his better known works .
1 . The van Loo family was quite the artistic clustering . Louis - Abraham van Loo , Jean - Baptiste ’s don , was a cougar as well as art teacher to his sons . Jean - Baptiste ’s borther , Charles - Andre , also became a cougar , as did Jean - Baptiste ’s two Son , Louis - Michel and Charles - Amedee - Philippe .
2 . For five years , from 1737 to 1742 , Jean - Baptiste stick in England . There he painted the portraits of Colley Cibber ( actor , playwright , and Poet Laureate ) , Owen McSwiny ( theatrical managing director ) , Sir Robert Walpole ( generally consider as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain ) , and the prince ( Frederick ) and princess ( Augusta ) of Wales .
3 . The encyclopedia and texts from the late 1800s and early 1900s reference Sir Walpole , who manifestly noted that Jean - Baptiste " carry aside the chief business of London from every other puma . " They also report that , while " his likenesses were very striking , " they were " not often blandish . "
4 . " Galatea , " which means " she who is milk - bloodless , " come to to three women in mythology . Of the three , the most well - roll in the hay was the wife of King Pygmalion of Cyprus . Another was a Sicilian nereid , or sea houri , who was in love with Acis , the boy of Faunus and a river nymph . The final Galatea was the wife of Lamprus ; she prayed to Leto that her daughter be turn into a son .
5 . Jean - Baptiste van Loo ’s " Triumph of Galatea " is likely a representation of the Galatea who jazz Acis . According to the story , the cyclops Polyphemus was jealous of Acis and thus kill him with a boulder . Galatea was distraught over the slaying of her erotic love , and so she turned his bloodline into the river Acis ( in Sicily ) . However , no sources appear to document the inspiration or source of " The Triumph of Galatea . "
A larger interlingual rendition of the work is availablehere .
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