Jacobus Bisschop

Jacobus Bisschop (1658 – 1697) was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.

According to Houbraken when his younger brother Abraham no longer needed him, he left for the Hague to follow lessons from Augustinus Terwesten.

[1] After that he mostly made paintings for wall decorations in stately homes, at which pursuit he was quite successful.

[1] According to the RKD he was the son of the genre painter Cornelis Bisschop and brother of the bird painter Abraham Busschop.

[2] He became Terwesten's pupil in 1686 at the Confrerie Pictura.