Noël Coypel French

France

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 painter

Painting

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, also called, from the fact that he was much influenced by Poussin

Poussin

Poussin refers to:*Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian mathematician*Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-Poussin Belgian geologist and mineralogist, father of Charles Jean*Nicolas Poussin , French painter...

, Coypel le Poussin, was the son of an unsuccessful artist.

Having been employed by Charles Errard

Charles Errard

Charles Errard the Younger was a French painter, architect and engraver, co-founder and director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture...

 to paint some of the pictures required for the Louvre

Louvre

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, and having afterwards gained considerable fame by other pictures produced at the command of the king, in 1672 he was appointed director of the French Academy at Rome. After four years he returned to France; and not long after he became director of the Academy of Painting. The Martyrdom of St James in Nôtre Dame is perhaps his finest work. Coypel was a pupil of Noël Quillerier

Noël Quillerier

Noël Quillerier was a French painter who also served as a valet de chambre for the king. A native of Orléans, in 1631 he married Charlotte Lerambert, the daughter of sculptor Louis Lerambert...

.

His sons Antoine

Antoine Coypel

Antoine Coypel was a history painter, the more famous son of the French painter Noël Coypel.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...

 and Nöel-Nicolas

Nöel-Nicolas Coypel

Nöel-Nicolas Coypel was a popular French artist.The son of Noël Coypel and half-brother to the more-famous painter Antoine Coypel, he was accredited to the Academie Royale in 1716. He was appointed a professorship in 1733, but died shortly thereafter in a domestic accident.-See also:*A bust of...

 were also painters.

Noël died at age 78.