Floris van schooten biography of michael
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Floris van Schooten
Floris Gerritsz van Schooten or Floris van Schooten 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.
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 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.
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
In he married the daughter of the most prosperous local beer brewer, Rycklant Bol van Zanen. tillsammans they had three daughters and a son Johannes, who also became a painter. Floris van Schooten is mentioned as a member of the city's Corporation in
He died in Haarlem where he was buried on 14 November in
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Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews
On his death in , Harold Samuel, elevated in to Baron Samuel of Wych Cross, bequeathed the collection he had formed of 84 seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings to the Corporation of the City of London. His widow waived her life interest so that the Corporation could receive them immediately. Although they were exhibited at the Barbican Art Gallery the following year, Samuel’s bequest did not guarantee regular public access. He stipulated that they were to be hung in the Mansion House, the grandiose Palladian official residence of the lord mayor of London.
The renovation of the Mansion House between and allowed the collection to go on a five venue North American tour before being shown again at the Barbican on its return. Since then, the Mansion House has been open for occasional guided group visits, but in public access increased because part of the lord mayor’s annual charity appeal was dedicated to the conservation
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Kitchen Scene
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Title:Kitchen Scene
Artist:Peter Wtewael (Dutch, Utrecht – Utrecht)
Dates
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions 3/4 x 63 in. ( x cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund,
Object Number
When this painting was purchased in , it was called Cook Shop, "a Jan Steen of exceptional beauty and importance" (Evening Post ). By , curator Bryson Burroughs had attributed the work to the Amsterdam painter Adriaen van Nieulandt (–), following the advice of Abraham Bredius (n.d.). Hella Robels, an authority on Frans Snyders (–), the Antwerp painter of still lifes and kitchen and market scenes, observed () that the picture must be Dutch, not Flemish.
Pieter van Thiel and Keith Moxey independently reported () that they were strongly reminded of works by Joachim Wtewael. The picture was subsequently brought to the attention of the Wtewael specialist Anne Lowenthal, who publi