Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694 – 1752)

• Was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright.
• He became court painter to the French king and director of the Académie Royale.
• He was born in an artistic family as the son of the painter Antoine Coypel and grandson of the painter Noël Coypel.
• He lived almost his whole life at the Louvre, from the age of three when his father was granted a brevêt de logement (residence permit) in 1697.
• He was a pupil of his father and was simultaneously agréé and reçu (which meant he became a full member) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 31 August 1715.
• He inherited his father’s design and painting duties as premier peintre du roi (First Painter to the King) at the French court when his father died in 1722.
• He became premier peintre du roi and director of the Académie Royale in 1747.
• He worked on several commissions for paintings for the royal Palace of Versailles, and for Madame de Pompadour, the king’s mistress.
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