Floris van Schooten
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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 pi
Dutch breakfast
Kitchen scene
Still life with herrings, oysters and smoking paraphernalia
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
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The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius.
Floris van Schooten
…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 1639. In 1612, he married the daughter of the most prosperous local beer brewer, Rycklant Bol van…
Maarten van Heemskerck painted this diptych before he left Haarlem for Italy in 1532.
Doorway to the original monastery of the Carmelites and the Vrouwebroerskerk. Called the Guldenbergspoortje or Golden mountain gate in the Grote Houtstraat.
Transcription of Salomon de Bray's proposed hierarchy of the guild in 1631.
The Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke in 1675. Salomon's son Jan de Bray painted himself second from the left.