Jacobus Bisschop

Jacobus Bisschop (1658, Dordrecht – 1697, Dordrecht), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to Houbraken when his younger brother Abraham no longer needed him, he left for the Hague to follow lessons from Augustinus Terwesten.[1] After that he mostly made paintings for wall decorations in stately homes, at which pursuit he was quite successful.[1]

According to the RKD he was the son of the genre painter Cornelis Bisschop and brother of the bird painter Abraham Busschop.[2] He became Terwesten's pupil in 1686 at the Confrerie Pictura.[2] He became a member of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke.[2]

References

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