Floris Claesz. van Dyck (c. 1575-1651)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.
• He was born in Delft.
• Van Dyck lived in Haarlem for most of his life.
• He was a cousin of Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck.
• In 1600 he was documented as being in Rome, where he was a good friend of Joseph van Arpino.
• In 1606 he returned to the Netherlands, where he settled in Haarlem and became one of Karel van Mander's sources on modern Italian painters for his Schilder-boeck.
• Like the young Frans Hals and other assistants to Karel van Mander, Floris is not listed with his own entry in that book, though he was already an established painter on his return from Italy.
• After Karel van Mander's death, Floris joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1610 and became dean in 1637.
• On 11 September 1625 he married for the second time to Cornelia Jansdr. Vlasman.
• Besides Nicolaes Gilles, he influenced the painters Floris van Schooten, Pieter Claesz, and Roelof Koets.

• He died in Haarlem.

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