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Joris van Schooten (1587–1651) was a

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painter and the uncle of the Leiden mathematician

Frans van Schooten Frans van Schooten Jr. also rendered as Franciscus van Schooten (15 May 1615 – 29 May 1660) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes. He translated La Géométrie in Latin and wrote c ...

Biography

According to Houbraken he was born in Leiden with a talent for drawing, and his teachers were upset that he drew animals on everything he was given. At 17 he was apprenticed to Coenraad van der Maas, a good portrait painter, for 3 years, in which short amount of time he became good enough to start out on his own.Joris van Schoten biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature In Delft he was strongly influenced by the school of

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt Michiel Janszoon ( Jansz.) van Mierevelt (; also spelled Miereveld or Miereveldt; 1 May 1566 – 27 June 1641) was a Dutch painter and draftsman of the Dutch Golden Age. Biography Van Mierevelt was born and died in Delft, as a son of a goldsm ...

. After he had learned enough to start his own workshop, he decided to travel to Italy, but his parents married him to Marijtgen Bouwens van Leeuwen, so he cut off his travel plans and returned to Leiden.Joris van Schooten
in the

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He was a successful painter who was respected in the community. He joined the Leiden Guild of St. Luke and was one of a group who sent a petition to the city fathers in 1609 for a new, more protective charter for the guild. It was rejected and they attempted this again in 1610 and it was again rejected. He won lucrative portrait commissions from the Leiden ''

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'' in 1626 and painted a historical piece for the city hall of Leiden where the mayor van der Werff offers his sword to the hungry people of Leiden with the speech; ''If it will help you, cut my body into pieces and distribute this among you - this will comfort me''. He also won a commission from the Lutheran Church in 1640 for a series of paintings on the life of man. According to the RKD, he was son of a Flemish immigrant in Leiden who was registered as the pupil of Evert van der Maes in

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in 1604 for three years, and he married Marijtgen who was from

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on May 17, 1617, in Leiden. He was the teacher, not the pupil, of Coenraed van der Maes van Avenrode (probably a family member of Evert), and also the teacher of the painters

Jan Lievens Jan Lievens (24 October 1607 – 4 June 1674) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was associated with his close contemporary Rembrandt, a year older, in the early parts of their careers. They shared a birthplace in Leiden, training with Pieter ...

and Abraham van den Tempel. According to Simon van Leeuwen he was also the teacher of

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Legacy

His paintings in the Lutheran church and the city hall of Leiden still hang where they were installed.Lutheran Church of Leiden
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, and Abraham van den Tempel. It is unknown whether he was related to his contemporary with the same last name, the Amsterdam-born still life painter Floris van Schooten.

References

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