Cornelis Bisschop

Dutch Golden Age painter

Cornelis Bisschop
Self-portrait
Born	Cornelis Bisschop (1630-02-12)12 February 1630 Dordrecht
Died	21 January 1674(1674-01-21) (aged 43) Dordrecht
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Cornelis Bisschop (12 February 1630 – 21 January 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'œil 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.^[3]

Of these children, two sons Abraham and Jacobus and three daughters became painters. These had been his students along with Margaretha van Godewijk who wrote an emblem about his self-portrait with a curtain, which illustrates the legend of Zeuxis.^[2]

Cornelis Bisschop
Kitchen interior with a woman cooking and a boy blowing flames
Girl peeling an apple 1667
A Young Woman and a Cavalier
Allegory on the Raid on the Medway

References

^ Cornelis Bisschop in RKD
^ ^a ^b (in 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
^ Libby, Alexandra. "Cornelis Bisschop". he Leiden Collection Catalogue. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Retrieved 21 April 2017.