Cornelis Bisschop

Cornelis Bisschop
Self-portrait
Birth name	Cornelis Bisschop
Born	February 12, 1630(1630-02-12) Dordrecht
Died	January 21, 1674(1674-01-21) (aged 43) Dordrecht
Nationality	Netherlands
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Cornelis Bisschop (1630–1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

In ca. 1650 he was a student of Ferdinand Bol in Amsterdam.^[1] In 1653 he was back in Dordrecht, where he got married. According to Houbraken he was the first to paint carved trompe l'oeil wooden panels in such an ingenious way that they became quite popular.^[2] He painted historical allegories, portraits, still lifes, and genre-works. He was asked to paint for the Danish court, but he died unexpectedly, leaving his wife and eleven children. Of these children, two sons (Abraham (1660–1700) & Jacobus Bisschop (1658–1698)) and three daughters became painters. These had been his students when he died, and Margaretha van Godewijk studied with his daughters. She wrote an emblem about his self-portrait with a curtain, which illustrates the legend of Zeuxis.^[2]

His son Jacobus later became a student of Augustinus Terwesten in the Confrerie Pictura.^[3]

References

1. ^ Cornelis Bisschop in RKD
2. ^ ^{a b} (Dutch) Kornelis Bisschop biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
3. ^ Jacobus Bisschop in RKD

External link

• Works and literature on Cornelis Bisschop

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Name	Bisschop, Cornelis
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Date of birth	February 12, 1630
Place of birth	Dordrecht
Date of death	January 21, 1674
Place of death	Dordrecht