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Full Name
  
Jan de Bisschop

Period
  
Baroque

Name
  
Jan Bisschop


Movement
  
Baroque

Nationality
  
Netherlands

Known for
  
Jan de Bisschop

Born
  
Died
  

Jan de Bisschop, also known as Johannes Episcopius (1628–1671), was a lawyer, who became a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.

Jan de Bisschop FileAllegory on the Power of Venus by Jan de Bisschop Rijksmuseum

Biography

Jan de Bisschop Jan de Bisschop Works on Sale at Auction Biography

According to the RKD he learned to draw from Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and he influenced in his turn Jacob van der Ulft. Both Ulft and Bisschop were born into good families and were examples of painters who practised art more for pleasure than for a living. Bisschop was a founding member of the Confrerie Pictura and produced two books in the 1670s meant as instructional material for young artists. These were based on his own copies from classical artists, but also copies from the Rome-traveller, Pieter Donker. One was 112 prints that was produced in the years 1668-1669 as the Signorum Veterum Icones (Dutch title: Afbeeldingen van antieke beelden), and the other was printed in 1671 as Paradigmata Graphices variorum Artificum (Dutch title: Voor-beelden der Teken-Konst van verscheyde Meesters).

Jan de Bisschop Jan de Bisschop Amsterdam 1628 The Hague 1671 Two studies of

According to Houbraken he was a lawyer for the Dutch court, and did a great service to the arts with his instructional drawings copied from the artists Tintoretto, Jacopo Bassano, Annibale Carracci (Karats), Paolo Veronese, Rubens, and Anthony van Dyck.


Jan de Bisschop Spencer Alley Classical Artifacts and Statues by Jan de Bisschop

Jan de Bisschop FileJan de Bisschop The Huis ter Nieuburch at Rijswijck Seen

Jan de Bisschop Jan van Bisschop The Oostpoort

References

Jan de Bisschop Wikipedia


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