Christoffel Bisschop (22 April 1828 – 5 October 1904) was a Dutch painter and lithographer, known primarily for

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scenes and figures.

Biography

He was born in

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. His father was a prominent merchant. He had several teachers: in Leeuwarden, he studied with the designer Hendrik Schaaff (1805–1850), in Amsterdam with the painter Jacobus Schoemaker Doyer, and in

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with the lithographer Willem Hendrik Schmidt (1809–1849). From 1848 to 1852, he studied at the

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in The Hague, where his instructor was Huib van Hove. From there, he went to Paris, where he took lessons from

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.Profile @ the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie. In 1855, he established a studio in

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and exhibited widely, in the Netherlands as well as France and England. He also had a showing at the

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in Philadelphia.Listing
@ the Documentatie van Beeldende Kunst in Zuid-Holland. Many of his interior scenes were painted in the city of Hindeloopen, which is known for its preservation of traditional costume. He was named a Ridder in the

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in 1863. Six years later, in

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, he married Catharina Swift, who had been his student during visits to England, and they settled in

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at a villa called "Frisia". She would later become a well-known painter, under the name

Kate Bisschop-Swift Catharina Seaton Foreman Bisschop-Swift, known as Kate (1834-1928) was an English-born Dutch painter, known primarily for her domestic scenes and still-lifes. Biography She was largely self-taught. In the late 1860s, she took some lessons from th ...

. He was a member of the

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and the Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij, of which his wife was one of the founders. He also took numerous students, including Bernard Blommers, Karel Klinkenberg and his nephew, Richard Bisschop. He died in The Hague in 1904. Major retrospectives of his work were held in 1905, and in 2008 at the . Many of his belongings were transferred to the

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and, after Kate's death in 1928, hers and the remainder of his were taken there. The museum display includes a complete reproduction of their workshop.

Selected paintings

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File:SA 129-De Heer heeft gegeven, de Heer heeft genomen.jpeg, The Lord Gave and the
Lord Took Away File:WLANL - 23dingenvoormusea - Vrouw met vis.jpg, Woman with a Fish

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Bisschop.Obituary
@ De Krant van Toen. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bisschop, Christoffel 1828 births 1904 deaths Artists from Leeuwarden 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch genre painters 19th-century Dutch male artists

Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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