• Was a widely travelled painter and engraver of the Dutch Golden Age. • Alternative versions of his name include Dirck Stoff, Theodorus Stoop, Thierry and Rodrigo. • Stoop was born in Utrecht. • His father was the glass painter Willem Jansz. van Stoop and his brother Maerten was also a painter. • The younger Stoop was a pupil in the Utrecht guild and was known for Italianate landscapes with hunting parties. • Some time in 1639 Stoop went to live in Italy and afterwards seems to have led an itinerant existence. • While in Lisbon and became Court painter to the Princess Catherine of Braganza, whom he followed to London when she was betrothed to Charles II in 1662. • From this time dates the series of eight large plates portraying her progress from Portsmouth to Hampton Court. • After a four-year stay in London, Stoop returned to Utrecht, where he died in 1686. • Next
