Jan de Bisschop

With Bob P. Haboldt & Co., New York, by 1989

Although Jan de Bisschop was an amateur artist, and his main career was as a lawyer in the court at the Hague and secretary to Constantijn Huygens the Younger, his drawings and prints, some of them copies after antique and renaissance sculpture and paintings, others highly atmospheric landscapes, are of the greatest quality and delicacy.  It is likely that these energetic studies of horses are based on prototypes in the work of an Italian artist such as Tempesta.  For further information on de Bisschop's copies after Italian and classical models, see the exhibition catalogue, Episcopius. Jan de Bisschop (1628-1671), advocaat en tekenaar.¹

^1.  Amsterdam, Museum het Rembrandthuis, 1992, pp. 38-63