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| Jan de Bisschop Panoramic view of Rome before 1671 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jan de Bisschop View of the Colosseum, Rome before 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan de Bisschop View of the Baths of Diocletian and S Bernardo alle Terme, Rome before 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"After leaving the Latin School in Amsterdam, Jan de Bisschop probably took drawing lessons with Bartholomeus Breenbergh. De Bisschop mastered the character of Breenbergh's drawings, inspired by the Italian light, in which the white of the paper acts as a source of bright light, and strong shadow contrasts are created with a brush. De Bisschop was able to reproduce his teacher's style so accurately that there are drawings whose attribution – De Bisschop or Breenbergh – is uncertain. Jan de Bisschop made his earliest drawings in Amsterdam and on a trip to the Southern Low Countries in 1648. He continued to draw in and around the city while he was studying law at Leiden from 1649 to 1652. In the years that followed he established himself as a lawyer in The Hague, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. . . . As a draughtsman we know De Bisschop from the Dutch landscapes and town views that he made throughout his life and from drawings after Dutch and Italian paintings, for which he used both originals and prints as his examples. . . . De Bisschop also drew Italian landscapes, although he never set foot in Italy. This is evidenced by the numerous errors in the Italian inscriptions on his drawings and the fact that he put unrelated monuments together and depicted subjects that no longer existed or had changed. An important source for De Bisschop's 'Italian' drawings was the work of his teacher Breenbergh, who had been in the south from 1619 to 1629. De Bisschop will have had access to Breenbergh's drawings and prints, and to those of other artists, and he must have copied them."
– Peter Schatborn, from the catalogue of a 2001 exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, published in English as Drawn to Warmth: 17th-century Dutch artists in Italy, translated by Lynne Richards
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| Jan de Bisschop View of Palazzo Maggiore on the Palatine Hill, Rome before 1671 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jan de Bisschop Temple of Vesta at Tivoli before 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Jan de Bisschop View of Albano before 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan de Bisschop View of Savelli near Albano before 1671 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jan de Bisschop Mountainous landscape in Italy before 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan de Bisschop Mountainous landscape in Italy before 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan de Bisschop View of Tusculum (Frascati) before 1671 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan de Bisschop Nymph and Satyr dancing in a landscape before 1671 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Jan de Bisschop Mercury lulling Argus to sleep in a landscape before 1671 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jan de Bisschop Idyll by a fountain (after Titian) 1667 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan de Bisschop Piazza before a Palace before 1671 drawing British Museum |