Floris van schooten biography of albert
Interior of a kitchen, painting by Floris van Schooten / 17th cent.
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Floris van Schooten
Dutch painter
Floris Gerritsz van Schooten or Floris van Schooten (between 1585 and 1588 – buried 14 November 1656)[1] was a Dutch painter who practised in a broad range of still life genres including breakfast pieces, fruit pieces, market scenes and large kitchen pieces.[2]
Life
Floris van Schooten was the son of Gerrit Jacbsz van Schooten, a member of a prosperous Catholic family from Amsterdam, who had moved to Haarlem in 1612.[1] At that time, many Catholic families left Amsterdam where the Protestants had the upper hand in local government, for Haarlem, where the climate for Catholicism was more tolerant.[3]
The young van Schooten became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St.
Luke. He served as the dean of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1639.
In 1612 he married the daughter of the most prosperous local beer brewer, Rycklant Bol van Zanen. Together they had three daughters and a son Johannes, who also becam