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COYPEL , the name of a See also:French See also:family of painters. See also:Noel Coypel (1628-1707), also called, from the fact that he was much influenced by Poussin, COYPEL LE POUSSIN, was the son of an unsuccessful artist. Having been employed by See also:Charles Errard to paint some of the pictures required for the Louvre, and having afterwards gained considerable fame by other pictures produced at the command of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, in 1672 he was appointed director of the French See also:Academy at See also:Rome. After four years he returned to See also:France; and not See also:long after he became director of the Academy of See also:Painting. The Martyrdom of St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James in Notre See also:Dame is perhaps his finest See also:work.
His son, See also:ANTOINE COYPEL (1661-1772), was still more celebratedthan his See also:father. Antoine studied under his father, with whom he spent four years at Rome. At the See also:age of eighteen he was admitted into the Academy of Painting, of which he became See also:professor and See also:rector in 1707, and director in 1714. In 1716 he was appointed king's painter, and he was ennobled in the following See also:year. Antoine Coypel received a careful See also:literary See also:education, the effects of which appear in his See also:works; but the graceful See also:imagination displayed by his pictures is marred by the fact that he was not See also:superior to the artificial See also:taste of his age. He was a See also:clever etcher, and engraved several of his own works. His Discours prononces clans See also:les conferences de l' Academie royale de Peinture, &c.; appeared in 1741.
Antoine's See also:half-See also:brother, NOEL See also:NICHOLAS COYPEL (1692-1734), was also an exceedingly popular artist; and his son, Charles Antoine (1694-1752), was painter to the king and director of the Academy of Painting. The latter published interesting academical lectures in Le Mercure and wrote several plays which were acted at See also:court, but were never published.
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