Jan de Bisschop
Published instructional engravings of classical masters
Jan de Bisschop, also known as Johannes Episcopius (1628–1671), was a lawyer, who became a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. According to the RKD he learned to draw from Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and he influenced in his turn Jacob van der Ulft. Both Ulft and Bisschop were born into good families and were examples of painters who practised art more for pleasure than for a living. Bisschop was a founding member of the Confrerie Pictura and produced two books in the 1670s meant as instructional material for young artists. These were based on his own copies from classical artists, but also copies from the Rome-traveller, Pieter Donker. One was 112 prints that was produced in the years 1668-1669 as the Signorum Veterum Icones (Dutch title: Afbeeldingen van antieke beelden), and the other was printed in 1671 as Paradigmata Graphices variorum Artificum (Dutch title: Voor-beelden der Teken-Konst van verscheyde Meesters). According to Houbraken he was a lawyer for the Dutch court, and did a great service to the arts with his instructional drawings copied from the artists Tintoretto, Jacopo Bassano, Annibale Carracci (Karats), Paolo Veronese, Rubens, and Anthony van Dyck.
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Artworks by this artist (74 total)
- Music Contest Between Apollo and Pan 1666-1671
- Nude man standing with arms raised 1666-1671
- Saint Benedict seated among the saints 1666-1671
- Night lying on a stone arch 1666-1671
- Six standing apostles 1666-1671
- Six images of men with different attributes 1666-1671
- A Market Scene Under Trees in Katwijk op Rijn early 1650s
- Sibyl 1666-1671
- Three male torsos 1666-1671
- Portrait bust of Democritus 1666-1671
- Girls playing music in a landscape 1666-1671
- Nude man lying on his left side 1666-1671
- Boats on Shore and in Water 1648[-]1652
- Christ with the Cross and other instruments of the Passion 1666-1671
- Portrait bust of Pompey 1666-1671
- Portrait bust of Scipio Africanus 1666-1671
- Assumption of Mary. 1666-1671
- The Entombment of Christ between 1672 and 1689
- Minerva und Apollo unterweisen ein Kind in den Künsten und Wissenschaften, dabei die drei Grazien sowie Merkur
- Three seated women 1666-1671