Richard Bisschop (21 June 1849 in

Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Stadsfries dialects, Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in Fri ...

– 22 March 1926 in

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) was a Dutch painter, graphic artist and

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Biography

His father was a hardware merchant. Bisschop originally trained to be an engineer, but was always interested in art because his uncle,

Christoffel Bisschop Christoffel Bisschop (22 April 1828 – 5 October 1904) was a Dutch painter and lithographer, known primarily for genre scenes and figures. Biography He was born in Leeuwarden. His father was a prominent merchant. He had several teachers: in Le ...

and aunt, Kate Bisschop-Swift were painters. At the age of twenty-two, he decided to follow their example and take up art professionally.Biographical notes
@ AskArt. He began his studies with his uncle, then attended the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts (now the

Willem de Kooning Academy The Willem de Kooning Academy ( nl, Willem de Kooning Academie) is a Dutch academy of media, art, design, leisure and education based in Rotterdam. It was named after one of its most famous alumni, Dutch fine artist Willem de Kooning. Overvie ...

) and specialized in

genre scenes Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...

, portraits, cityscapes and interiors; especially churches. When the painter

Johannes Bosboom Johannes Bosboom (18 February 1817 – 14 September 1891) was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the Hague School, known especially for his paintings of church interiors. Biography He was born in The Hague. At the age of 14 he became a studen ...

died in 1891, Bisschop was permitted to paint him while he was lying in his coffin and make a sketch of his workshop. He worked successively in Rotterdam and

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, where he became a member of the

Pulchri Studio Pulchri Studio (Latin:"For the study of beauty") is a Dutch art society, art institution and art studio based in The Hague ('s-Gravenhage), Netherlands. This institute began in 1847 at the home of painter Lambertus Hardenberg. Since 1893 the c ...

. In 1892, he married the artist Suze Robertson, one of the Amsterdamse Joffers. Their daughter, , also became a painter of interiors, animals and marine scenes. In addition to several Dutch museums, many of his works were acquired by the

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in New York (now a division of

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Engraving of Bisschop (1919)
by Simon Moulijn (1866-1948) @ Geheugen van Nederland.
Photograph of Bisschop
in his studio (c.1907) 1849 births 1926 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch genre painters Cityscape artists People from Leeuwarden 19th-century Dutch male artists 20th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub