Painter, born in Paris, France, from a distinguished family of painters. Influenced by Carracci and Poussin, he became director of the Academy (1714), was ennobled (1717), and made first painter to the king. His themes were historical, and his most famous work is the ceiling of the chapel at Versailles, which achieves its effect through the use of trompe l'oeil (1708).
Antoine Coypel (1661 - 1722), son of the French painter Noël Coypel, was still more celebrated than his father.
Antoine studied under his father, with whom he spent four years at Rome. At the age of eighteen he was admitted into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, of which he became professor and rector in 1707, and director in 1714.
Antoine Coypel received a careful literary education, the effects of which appear in his works; His Discours prononcés dans les conferences de 1'Academie royale de Peinture, etc.;
His half-brother Nöel-Nicolas was also an accomplished painter.
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