Antoine studied under his father, with whom he spent four years at Rome. At the age of eighteen he was admitted into the Academy of Painting, of which he became professor and rector in 1707, and director in 1714. In 1716 he was appointed king's painter, and he was ennobled in the following year.
Antoine Coypel received a careful literary education, the effects of which appear in his works; but the graceful imagination displayed by his pictures is marred by the fact that he was not superior to the artificial taste of his age. He was a clever etcher, and engraved several of his own works. His Discours prononcés dans les conferences de 1'Academie royale de Peinture, etc.; appeared in 1741.
His half_brother Nöel-Nicolas was also an accomplished painter.
The number of the characters and the importance of the details varied according to the rank and the fortune of the client.
AntoineCoypel having been admitted at 20 years old to the newly established Royal Academy of Painting, it was not out of place in my mind to mention this work in a collection primarily devoted to his distant successors.
AntoineCoypel received a careful literary education, the effects of which appear in his works; but the graceful imagination displayed by his pictures is marred by the fact that he was not superior to the artificial taste of his age.
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