Abraham Busschop

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Park landscape with guinea fowl, chicken and chicks, 1723 Abraham Bisschop Perlhuhner.jpg
Park landscape with guinea fowl, chicken and chicks, 1723
Ducks in a landscape, Abraham Busschop 1693 Abraham Busschop 1693.jpg
Ducks in a landscape, Abraham Busschop 1693

Abraham Busschop or Abraham Bisschop (1670, Dordrecht – 1729, Middelburg), was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic.

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Biography

Ceiling piece with birds (1708) Ceiling piece with birds, by Abraham Busschop.jpg
Ceiling piece with birds (1708)

According to Houbraken he was the son of the Cornelis Bisschop and the brother of Jacobus. [1]

According to the RKD he became a member of the Middelburg Guild of St. Luke in 1715. [2] He is known for still lifes and bird and animal pieces. [2]

References

  1. ↑ (in Dutch) Abraham Busschop Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. 1 2 Abraham Busschop in the RKD

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