Watercolor of village by Jan de Bisschop.////////////////////Jan de Bisschop, also known as Johannes Episcopius (1628–1671), was a lawyer, who became a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver,17th century.6" x 4" in a frame 10"x 7".////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Provenance:Krzystof Postawa Estate, Jackson Heights(Queens)New York.Descended directly and kept in the family that descended from Frederick Mont.////////////////////////////Frederick Mont was born in Vienna, Austria on 3/26/1894. He died on 8/20/1994 in N.Y.C.He was survived by his wife Anna Mont nee Suchestow. He had no children.Anna Mont died on 7/28/2010 in N.Y.C. She was survived by her sister Lottie Brandel.Lottie Brandel died on 7/20/11 in Jackson Heights, NY and was survived by her husband, Krzysztof Postawa.Krzysztof Postawa died on 7/11/2018 in Jackson Heights, NY.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(From the Frick Museum online archives):"Frederick Mont, aka A. F. (Adolf Fritz) Mondschein or Frederick Mondschein, was a New York dealer of Old Master paintings. Before immigrating to New York in the 1930s, Mont, owned and directed Galerie Sanct Lucas (Yeide, Nancy H. The AAM Guide to Provenance Research, AAM, Washington DC., 2001).Frederick Mont sold mostly European old masters mostly to U.S. museums; he was chosen as sole agent by the Prince of Liechtenstein for the sale of masterpieces from his collection; favored his relationships with American dealer Victor Spark (1898-1991) and the Newhouse Galleries.Mont was married at least three times; his first wife, Betty (née Berta Austerlitz, 1897) Mont, was also involved in the art business and Frederick was a partner in her father’s, Wilhelm Austerlitz [d. 1940], London art business; his second wife, Eva (née Seiler, 1919–1953), died on vacation with her husband in Naples, Italy; his third wife, Anna S. (1914-2010), bequest some works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010 in memory of Frederick Mont, other works from her bequest entered the collection in 2012."/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(From Wiki):Jan Jan de Bisschop, also known as Johannes Episcopius (1628–1671), was a lawyer, who became a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.Bisschop learned to draw from Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and he influenced in his turn Jacob van der Ulft. Both Ulft and Bisschop were born into good families and were examples of painters who practised art more for pleasure than for a living. Bisschop was a founding member of the Confrerie Pictura and produced two books in the 1670s meant as instructional material for young artists. These were based on his own copies from classical artists, but also copies from the Rome-traveller, Pieter Donker. One was 112 prints that was produced in the years 1668-1669 as the Signorum Veterum Icones (Dutch title: Afbeeldingen van antieke beelden), and the other was printed in 1671 as Paradigmata Graphices variorum Artificum (Dutch title: Voor-beelden der Teken-Konst van verscheyde Meesters).According to Houbraken he was a lawyer for the Dutch court, and did a great service to the arts with his instructional drawings copied from the artists Tintoretto, Jacopo Bassano, Annibale Carracci (Karats), Paolo Veronese, Rubens, and Anthony van Dyck. (in Dutch) Joan de Biskop biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literatureJan de Bisschop and his Icones & Paradigmata, classical antiquities and Italian drawings for artistic instruction in seventeenth century Holland, by J. G. van Gelder, 1985, DavacoJan de Bisschop in the RKD.

Good condition overall