Richard Bisschop

His father was a hardware merchant. He originally trained to be an engineer, but was always interested in art because his uncle, Christoffel Bisschop and aunt, Kate Bisschop-Swift were painters. At the age of twenty-two, he decided to follow their example and take up art professionally.[1] He began his studies with his uncle, then attended the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts (now the Willem de Kooning Academy) and specialized in genre scenes, portraits, cityscapes and interiors; especially churches.

When the painter Johannes Bosboom died in 1891, Bisschop was permitted to paint him while he was lying in his coffin and make a sketch of his workshop. He worked successively in Rotterdam and The Hague, where he became a member of the Pulchri Studio.[1]

In 1892, he married the artist Suze Robertson, one of the Amsterdamse Joffers. Their daughter, Sara Bisschop, also became a painter of interiors, animals and marine scenes.

In addition to several Dutch museums, many of his works were acquired by the American Art Association in New York (now a division of Sotheby's).

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• Engraving of Bisschop (1919) by Simon Moulijn (1866-1948) @ Geheugen van Nederland.
• Photograph of Bisschop in his studio (c.1907)