A Dutch breakfast, Floris van Schooten

A Dutch breakfast, Floris van Schooten Floris van Schooten (Haarlem, c. 1585 - there, 1656) was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age period. He mainly produced still lifes, often so-called 'breakfasts', with an apparent preference for cheese, later also fruit, and genre pieces (kitchen scenes, market scenes). Van Schooten was a son of the Amsterdam-born wealthy Gerrit Jacobsz. van Schooten, who settled in Haarlem in 1612, possibly because the climate there was more tolerant of people with a Catholic philosophy of life. There in 1612, Floris married Rycklant Bol van Zanen, a daughter of a wealthy local brewer in Haarlem (she died in 1626). They had at least three daughters and a son, Johannes, who also went into painting. Floris was a member of the Haarlem St Luke's guild, of which he became dean in 1639. His work was influenced by the style of his fellow townsmen Pieter Claesz., Pieter Aertsen, Floris van Dyck, Roelof Koets and Willem Claesz. Heda.