简·库佩奇，像当时的很多人，是新教（儿子捷克教友）父母波希米亚（特别波利斯拉夫）谁在斯洛伐克寻求避难（皇家构成匈牙利当时的核心）从宗教迫害的天主教徒。他出生于佩济诺克-附近的一个小镇布拉迪斯拉发。

据该人士透露，他开始了他的研究与瑞士画家贝内迪克特克劳斯，谁在这两个活跃维也纳和匈牙利皇家。在二十岁的时候，Kupecký去了一个很长的意大利研究之旅。在罗马王子亚历山大Benedykt索比斯基，波兰国王的儿子扬三世，帮助他成名。他在1709年回到维也纳，之后花了22年威尼斯和罗马。我们知道很少他的意大利的活动，以及他早期的作品以及他在维也纳的设置。

根据他的传记当代，瑞士约翰卡斯帕Füssli，新教Kupecký，谁忠实地抱着他的祖先的宗教，仍然撤回，在维也纳的宽容环境，这是宫廷和贵族的影响下分离。但是这个概念是部分的事实，主有显著宫廷委员会在维也纳工作时矛盾。他画的朝代，各成员的画像欧根亲王，一些贵族，并在卡罗维发利，甚至俄罗斯沙皇彼得一世。这一时期的丰富的作品包括一系列Kupecky的家人，朋友华丽的画像和画家自己，以及几个人，其身份未知。

1733年Kupecký，担心宗教迫害，从维也纳逃亡到纽伦堡与他的家人和在那里工作，直到他去世1740当代德国最显著的肖像画家，他被大量的德国王子，教会政要富商委托学者，他的作品被雕刻，甚至在他的一生中推广。通过他的学生和追随者Kupecký的影响力和艺术的例子仍然活着，并普遍很长一段时间。

虽然Kupecký花费了大多数他自己的祖国之外的生活，他总是认为自己是捷克画家。

Kupecký, like many people at that time, was the son of Protestant (Czech Brethren) parents from Bohemia(specifically Mladá Boleslav) who sought refuge in Slovakia (constituting the core of Royal Hungary at that time) from religious persecution by the Catholics. He was born in Pezinok - a town near Bratislava.

According to the sources he began his studies with the Swiss painter Benedikt Klaus, who was active in both Vienna and in Royal Hungary. At the age of twenty, Kupecký went on a long Italian study trip. In Rome Prince Aleksander Benedykt Sobieski, the son of the Polish king John III Sobieski, helped him to become famous. He returned to Vienna in 1709, after twenty-two years spent in Venice and Rome. We know very little of his Italian activity as well as his early works and his setting in Vienna.

According to his contemporary biographer, the Swiss Johann Caspar Füssli, the Protestant Kupecký, who faithfully clung to his ancestor's religion, remained withdrawn and isolated in Vienna's Catholic milieu, which was under the influence of the court and the aristocracy. However this concept is partly contradicted by the fact that the master had significant courtly commissions while working in Vienna. He painted portraits of various members of the dynasty, Prince Eugene of Savoy, several aristocrats, and, inKarlovy Vary, even of the Russian Czar Peter I. The rich oeuvre of this period comprises a series of gorgeous portraits of Kupecky's family, friends and the painter himself, as well as several persons, whose identity in unknown.

In 1733 Kupecký, fearing religious persecution, fled from Vienna to Nürnberg with his family and worked there until his death in 1740. As the most significant portrait painter of contemporary Germany, he was commissioned by a large number of German princes, church dignitaries rich merchants and scholars, and his works were popularized by engravings even during his lifetime. Through his pupils and followers Kupecký's influence and artistic example remained alive and widespread for a long time.

Although Kupecký spent most of his life outside his homeland, he always considered himself a Czech painter。