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Floris van Dyck, also called Floris van Dijck or Floris Claesz. van Dyck (c.1575 – before 26 April 1651) was a

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painter.

Biography

Van Dyck lived in Haarlem for most of his life, but he was born in Delft. He was a cousin of Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, whose father Cornelis first had a brewery in Delft before moving to the "De Olyphant" brewery in Haarlem.Entry on Floris Claesz van Dyck
in the

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Collections of Paintings in Haarlem 1572-1745: Netherlandish Inventories
p.102 (inventory of Agatha Pieters Bal), by Pieter Biesboer, 2001, The J. Paul Getty Trust In 1600 he was documented as being in

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, where he was a good friend of Joseph van Arpino and witnessed him being cured of an ailment with ''Olio del gran Duco'', an oil given to him by the Pope's personal physician, with which he smeared himself all over his body.Floris van Dyck mentioned in Joseph van Arpino biography
in

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander IKarel van Mander
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History ...

's ''

Schilder-boeck or is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into En ...

'', 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Thanks to this miracle cure, Arpino could finish an altarpiece in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. 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

. He probably lived with or near his uncle, the brewer Cornelis van Rijck. Like the young

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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 and the wealthy Gijsbert Claesz van Campen was his only witness.marriage notes
in ''De identificatie van een familiegroep door Frans Hals'', by Pieter Biesboer, pp. 77, Haerlem : jaarboek 2012, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives He was influenced by

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and

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and is considered the inventor of the ''banketje'' (banquet

genre similar to breakfasts, or ''ontbijtjes''), together with Nicolaes Gillis. Besides Nicolaes Gilles, he influenced the painters Floris van Schooten,

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, and

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. He died in

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. File:Floris Van Dyck, Pièce de banquet.jpg, Dutch banquet with cheese, bread, nuts and fruit File:Floris Claesz. van Dyck 001.jpg, ''Ontbijtje'' still life from 1610 at the

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, showing a Dutch breakfast with cheese, bread, nuts and fruit, served on a fine white linen napkin protecting the tablecloth, which is a red or ''karmozijn'' example of a kind popular in 17th-century Haarlem File:Still life pewter jug fruit cheese Floris van Dyck.jpg, Still life with pewter jug, fruit, and cheese File:St Lukasgilde Haarlem hierarchy 1631 - transcribed by CJ Gonnet in 1877.jpg, Transcription from 1877 of the proposed Haarlem painters' guild hierarchy in 1631. Floris van Dyck was one of the signatories, along with

Pieter de Molijn Pieter de Molijn (6 April 1595 in London – 23 March 1661 in Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver of English birth and Flemish descent. He was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Austin Friars church in London. He was born to Pi ...

Outgert Ariss Akersloot Outgert Arisz Akersloot (1576–1649), was a Dutch Golden Age silversmith. He was a member of the Haarlem regency from 1618 to 1649.Willem Claesz Heda, Salomon de Bray,

Cornelis Cornelisz Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist. Biogr ...

, Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, and Isaak Halinck. File:Korte spaarne 23-25.jpg, The former "De Olyphant" brewery, where Cornelis van Rijck lived and worked, and where he and his cousin Pieter probably kept a studio.

References

External links

Floris van Dijck - Rijksmuseum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dyck, Floris Van 1570s births 1651 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch still life painters Painters from Haarlem Painters from Delft