Floris Gerritsz van Schooten (1585 and 1588 – 1656)

• Was a Dutch painter.
• 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.
• 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. 

• Together 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 1641.

• He died in Haarlem where he was buried on 14 November 1656 in the Grote Kerk.

• About a 120 works are attributed to Floris van Schooten.

• The Dutch art historian Abraham Bredius attributed the works of the monogrammist "F.v.S" or "FVS" to Floris van Schooten in 1918.

• There is only one fully signed work known by van Schooten, a breakfast still life, which is now in the Von der Heydt Museum of Wuppertal in Germany.

• There are over 60 monogrammed paintings known and an even larger number which are unsigned, but are securely attributed to him.

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