Dirk Stoop (ca 1615–1686) was a widely travelled painter and engraver of the Dutch Golden Age. Alternative versions of his name include ''Dirck Stoff'', ''Theodorus (van der) Stoop'', ''Thierry'' (the French version) and ''Rod(e)rigo'', by which he was known in Portugal.

Biography

Stoop was born in

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. His father was the glass painter Willem Jansz. van Stoop and his brother Maerten was also a painter, especially of war scenes. According to Houbraken, his father had also been the first teacher of Abraham Diepraam.Dirk Stoop Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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Houbraken considered the elder Stoop to be a good horse painter. The younger Stoop was a pupil in the Utrecht guild and was known for Italianate landscapes with hunting parties, views of ports, cavalry scenes, history paintings, still lifes and altar pieces, which were valued highly in his time. Some time in 1639 Stoop went to live in Italy and afterwards seems to have led an itinerant existence. While in Lisbon and became Court painter to the Princess

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, whom he followed to London when she was betrothed to Charles II in 1662. From this time dates the series of eight large plates portraying her progress from

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. He is also known to have executed twenty-four engravings for the second, luxury edition of John Ogilby’s ''Aesop’s Fables'' in 1665, signing them as R(ordrig)o Stoop. After a three-year stay in London, which he seems to have left because of the

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, he went to

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, where in

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he was working for the chapter of the cathedral. This raised the protest of the local guild of painters, but in

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he was finally granted the freedom to work. He probably stayed in Hamburg until his death in 1686.

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External links

Dirk Stoop
on Artnet {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoop, Dirk 1610s births 1686 deaths Artists from Utrecht Dutch expatriates in Portugal Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters at the Portuguese royal court