The first Rococo painter admitted to the Royal Academy in France – Jean-Antoine Watteau. Born on October 10, 1684 in the town of Valenciennes, Antoine Watteau has always been interested in painting and was apprenticed to Jacques-Albert Gérin, a local painter. Not long after, he left for Paris and found a job in a workshop at Pont Notre-Dame, where he was making copies of popular Flemish and Dutch tradition genre paintings; before developing his unique sketch-like techniques and revitalizing the Baroque style into the less formally classical Rococo style and playing a major role in shaping his century’s art.In 1709 Antoine Watteau tried to obtain the Prix De Rome, a French scholarship for arts students that was established in 1663. However,
