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

Biography

He was born and died in

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. According to Houbraken when his younger brother

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no longer needed him, he left for the Hague to follow lessons from

Augustinus Terwesten Augustinus Terwesten or Augustinus Terwesten the Elder (4 May 1649 in The Hague – 21 January 1711 in Berlin) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker and art educator. He specialized in portraits, architectural and historical themes. He w ...

.Jakobus Bisschop biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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After that he mostly made paintings for wall decorations in stately homes, at which pursuit he was quite successful. According to the RKD he was the son of the genre painter

Cornelis Bisschop 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. In 1653 he was back in Dordrecht, where he got married. According to Houbraken he ...

and brother of the bird painter Abraham Busschop.Jacobus Bisschop
in the

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He became Terwesten's pupil in 1686 at the

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. He became a member of the Dordrecht

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bisschop, Jacobus 1658 births 1697 deaths 17th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Artists from Dordrecht Painters from Dordrecht