The Valkenburg Ferry Boat

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The Valkenburg Ferry Boat

Creator

Jan de Bisschop

Dutch Artist · 1628–1671

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Despite his amateur status, Jan de Bisschop was widely influential in art and art publishing. A lawyer by profession, he set up practice in The Hague around 1652 and later founded a drawing academy there. He mingled with an elite circle of intellectuals that included his friend and fellow amateur draftsman Constantijn Huygens the Younger. Bartholomeus Breenbergh, who lived in de Bisschop's native

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Date
1655–1660
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash over traces of black chalk
Culture
Dutch
Department
Drawings
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