Cornelis Bisschop

He was born in Dordrecht. In ca. 1650 he was a student of Ferdinand Bol in Amsterdam.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[2]

• Cornelis Bisschop
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  Kitchen interior with a woman cooking and a boy blowing flames
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  Girl peeling an apple 1667
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  A Young Woman and a Cavalier
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  Allegory on the Raid on the Medway