| Cornelis Bisschop | |
| Birth Name: | Cornelis Bisschop |
| Birth Date: | 12 February 1630 |
| Birth Place: | Dordrecht |
| Death Place: | Dordrecht |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Field: | Painting |
Cornelis Bisschop (12 February 1630 - 21 January 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
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.
Kornelis Bisschop biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature