Dirk Stoop (ca. 1610–1686)

• 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.
• After a four-year stay in London, Stoop returned to Utrecht, where he died in 1686.
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