Dirk Stoop

Dirk Stoop (c. 1615–1686) was a widely travelled painter and engraver of the Dutch Golden Age.

[2] The younger Stoop was a pupil in the Utrecht guild and was known for Italianate landscapes with hunting parties, views of ports, cavalry scenes, history paintings, still lifes and altar pieces, which were valued highly in his time.

While in Lisbon and became Court painter to the Princess Catherine of Braganza, whom he followed to London when she was betrothed to Charles II in 1662.

From this time dates the series of eight large plates portraying her progress from Portsmouth to Hampton Court.

[3] He is also known to have executed twenty-four engravings for the second, luxury edition of John Ogilby’s Aesop’s Fables in 1665, signing them as R(ordrig)o Stoop.