Cornelis Bisschop

Training under Ferdinand Bol is recorded. Margaretha van Godewijk, Jacobus Bisschop and Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht are recorded as having studied under Cornelis Bisschop. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre, history, group portrait and portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam and Dordrecht. Works named in the authority record are Council of war of eleven companies of the Dordrecht militia, ca 1675, Allegory on the raid at Chatham (1667), with a portrait of Cornelis de Witt and Girl peeling an apple. Work by Cornelis Bisschop is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Detroit Institute of Arts, Hamburger Kunsthalle and National Museum in Warsaw.

• Name — Cornelis Bisschop • Birth Name — Cornelis Bisschop • Born — 12 February 1630 • Birthplace — Dordrecht • Died — 21 January 1674 • Place of death — Dordrecht • Field — Painting • Movement — Baroque

He was born in Dordrecht. In ca. 1650 he was a student of Ferdinand Bol in Amsterdam. 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. 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 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. • Illustration — Kitchen interior with a woman cooking and a boy blowing flames • Illustration — Girl peeling an apple 1667 • Illustration — A Young Woman and a Cavalier • Illustration — Allegory on the Raid on the Medway