Discover print artist, draftsperson, drawing collector Jan de Bisschop

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: Episcopius, Johannes
Biskop, Jan de

Monogram: JE

JE in monogram (= Joannes Episcopius)

Qualifications: print artist, draftsperson, drawing collector, print collector, lawyer
His collection of drawings, prints and paper art was auctioned in The Hague on March 22, 1672 (no cat.), his library on March 21, 1672 (photocopy catalogue in library RKD), his own legacy on February 10, 1677 (no cat. ) (Van Gelder 1971, p. 238-239; Jellema/Plomp 1992, p. 8 and 72). Has also produced mezzotint prints, but no specimens are now known (Jellema/Plomp 1992, p. 16).

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1628-05/1628-07
Houbraken wrongly assumed he was born in 1646 in The Hague and died in 1686; these dates appear in the literature until Hofstede de Groot in Thieme/Becker 1914.

Deceased: The Hague (city) 1671-11-06/1671-11-07
6 or 7 November

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: married to Anna van Baerle, daughter of Caspar Barlaeus, professor at the Amsterdam Athenaeum

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

It is known that Constantijn Huygens II made copies after the drawings of Jan de Bisschop, see Van Gelder 1971, p. 212 (who alas does not go deeper into the stylistic differences and affinities between the two amateurs) and Jellema/Plomp 1992, p. 16–17. Doudijns used drawings of Doudijns for his etchings (Houbraken 1719).

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334 hits in RKDimages as artist
13 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as author
2076 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Amsterdam (stad) 1644 - 1648
earliest drawings are dated 1648
Zuidelijke Nederlanden (hist. regio) 1648
made a trip to the Southern Netherlands in 1648 (Schatborn et al. 2002, p. 197)
Leiden (stad) 1649 - 1652
studied law
Den Haag (stad) 1652 - 1671

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Breenbergh, Bartholomeus
ca. 1644-1648
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Doudijns, Willem

He in particular used the invaluable supply of Willem Doudijns drawings for his etched plate work (Houbraken 1719)
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Ulft, Jacob van der

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), italianate, architecture (genre), peasant genre

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 13 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 234, vol. 3 (1721), p. 150-151, 212-213 (as: Jan/Joan de Biskop)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 102
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 64; vol. 10 (1914), p. 581-582 (as: Episcopius, Johannes)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 167 (presuming that De Bisschop visited Italy)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 2 [1950], p. 42-44
Van Gelder/Van Hasselt/Blankert 1966 , p. 18-20
Witt Checklist 1978
Emmens 1979 , passim
Bolten 1985 (Drawing Books) , passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 11 (1995), p. 228-229
Schatborn/Verberne 2001 , p. 197-199
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

P.C. Molhuyzen, 'Wanneer is Episcopius student te Leiden geworden?', Oud-Holland 30 (1912), p. 185-188
J.G. van Gelder, 'Jan de Bisschop 1628-1671', Oud Holland 86 (1971), p. 201-288
J.G. van Gelder, 'Jan de Bisschop', Oud Holland 86/4 (1971), p. 1-88
J.G. van Gelder, 'De ongenoemde 'inventor'', De Gulden Passer 52-53 (1974-1975) (= Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de grafische kunst, opgedragen aan prof.dr. Louis Lebeer ter gelegenheid van zijn tachtigste verjaardag), p. 115-133
J.G. van Gelder and I. Jost, 'Two Marble Statuettes from Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Collections', in: Festoen. Opgedragen aan A.N. Zadoks-Josephus Jitta bij haar zeventigste verjaardag, Groningen/Bussum 1976, p. 297-304
A.E. Golahny, 'Jan de Bisschop's "St. Helena" after Veronese', Master Drawings 19 (1981), p. 25-27
J. van Tatenhove, 'Jan de Bisschop', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 8, October 1992, p. 30-31
E. Keesing, 'De broers Huygens en Jan de Bisschop', De Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis 1993, no. 1, p. 3-11
J. van Tatenhove, 'Een ets van Jan de Bisschop en een schilderstuk van Karel Dujardin', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 12, April 1993, p. 46-48
B. Bakker, 'Schilderachtig: discussions of a seventeenth-century term and concept', Simiolus 23 (1995), p. 147-162
A. Zwollo, 'De Romeinse Panorama's van Jan de Bisschop en Thedoor Matham', Oud Holland 113 (1999), p. 45-52
M. Zell, 'A leisurely and Virtuous Pursuit. Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representation in Seventeenth-Century Holland', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 54 (2003), p. 335-368

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Archive location: archief Jan Gerrit van Gelder
Project: Gerson Digital : Italy

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1991-11-21; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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Joe Rock 30 July 2020: There is a drawing in an album of the work of Richard Cooper senior (1701-64) in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Inv. 42.55) which relates in some way to the etching by Jan de Bisschop of a bust of Zeno. The etching was published in Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum (Amsterdam 1671) Pl. 50.
It may just be a copy by Cooper but the differences are interesting. The eyes in the copy are blank and the title at the base of the bust has been omitted.
The drawing is a loose sheet and Cooper is known to have had a significant collection of 'old master' drawings.

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