Cornelis Bisschop
Pioneered ingenious trompe-l'œil carved panels
Cornelis Bisschop, was a Dutch Golden Age painter. 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.
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Master student
- Ferdinand Bol Master
- Margaretha van Godewijk Student
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist
- Woman Peeling an Apple 1667
- Allegory on the Dutch Raid on the Medway (1667), with a Portrait of Cornelis de Witt 1668
- Kitchen interior with a woman cooking 1665
- Portrait of a family in an Old-Testament setting
- The Artist In His Studio ca. between 1665 and 1670
- Classical Landscape with Figures 1984
- A Young Woman and a Cavalier early 1660s
- Scholar
- Flight into Egypt
- A maid pumping water in a kitchen interior