Dutch silversmith. In the 1670s he worked in Paris where he became familiar with the Louis XIV style. He returned to The Hague as court goldsmith to William (Willem) of Orange. He was appointed 'Gold and silversmith-in-ordinary and steward of the silver' to Stadholder Willem III. As steward of the silver he was responsible for the custody and condition of the gold and silver objects in the palaces in The Hague and of those in the country houses of the stadholder and his wife, Princess Mary. Loofs's oeuvre is closely related to that of the French silversmiths of the late 17th century. The objects are generally monumental in structure, symmetrical in form, and decorated with motifs borrowed from classical antiquity. //