Cornelis Bisschop (12 February 1630 – 21 January 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

In ca. 1650 he was a student of

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. In 1653 he was back in Dordrecht, where he got married. According to Houbraken he was the first to paint carved ''

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'' wooden panels in such an ingenious way that they became quite popular.
Kornelis Bisschop biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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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

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and Jacobus and three daughters became painters. These had been his students along with

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who wrote an

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about his self-portrait with a curtain, which illustrates the legend of Zeuxis. File:Cornelis Bisschop - Kitchen interior with a woman cooking and a boy blowing flames.jpg, ''Kitchen interior with a woman cooking and a boy blowing flames'' File:C. Bisschop Girl peeling an apple 1667.jpg, ''Girl peeling an apple'' 1667 File:Cornelis Bisschop - A Young Woman and a Cavalier (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg, ''A Young Woman and a Cavalier'' File:Allegorie op de tocht naar Chatham (1667) met een portret van Cornelis de Witt - Allegory on the Raid on the Medway (Cornelis Bisschop, 1668).jpg, ''Allegory on the Raid on the Medway''

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Works and literature on Cornelis Bisschop
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bisschop, Cornelis 1630 births 1674 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Dordrecht Trompe-l'œil artists