He was born in Zele, East Flanders, First French Empire, on 17 December 1809, to Johannes Josephus de Loose.
[3] Twelve paintings by his father hang in the church of Zele, where also one painting by Basile De Loose is located (The Way of the Cross).
[4] He was trained in Antwerp and by 1835 was active in Paris.
De Loose was trained by his father,[5] and was also a pupil of Mattheus Ignatius van Bree.
[1] He died in Brussels on 24 December 1885.