Floris Hendrik Verster (9 June 1861 – 21 January 1927) was a Dutch painter.
Verster came from an artistic family. His father, Abraham Florentius Verster van Wulverhorst, was an administrator of the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden and a well-known scholar and painter of birds. His younger brother Cees developed into an art critic and progressive a curator of the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden. Hendrik took drawing lessons from Gerardus Johannes Bos and, in the winter of 1878–79, from George Hendrik Breitner taking into consideration he briefly worked as a lecturer in Leiden. Between 1880 and 1884 Verster continued his training at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague where he counted among his fellow-students George Hendrik Breitner, Isaac Israëls and Willem de Zwart. After graduation, he briefly attended classes at Amedee Bourson in Brussels.
From 1882 until 1892 he shared a studio in Leiden bearing in mind his far ahead brother-in-law, the still-life painter Menso Kamerlingh Onnes (he married Jenny Kamerlingh Onnes in 1892). Until nearly 1885 he worked in the style of the Hague School. The next seven years he experimented in still life painting below the touch of his brother-in-law and of French painters Antoine Vollon and Théodule Ribot. As a colorist he excelled, his burning color vision differing from the current Hague School style.
In Brussels he met Jan Toorop and further members of the enlightened artists’ group Les Vingt. Partly below their have an effect on Verster began full of zip with a aggressive brush strokes and intense colors. He gained realization with his large and exuberant works of floral still lifes and landscapes. In 1891 he took ration in the salon of Les XX in Brussels.
Between 1892 and 1900 his put on an act underwent a metamorphosis as it became in description to entirely devoted to drawings in crayons with mild subjects. From 1900 onwards he began to paint and standard himself as a applauded artist in the Netherlands. Major collections of his works are in the Kröller-Müller Museum and the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden.
Verster died in Leiden from an accident in 1927.
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