This is Joris van Schooten

Joris van Schooten (1587–1651) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the uncle of the Leiden mathematician Frans van Schooten.

According to Houbraken he was born in Leiden once a gift for drawing, and his teachers were mistake 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 rude amount of times he became great enough to Begin out on his own. In Delft he was strongly influenced by the college of Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt. After he had theoretical enough to Begin his own workshop, he approved to travel to Italy, but his parents married him to Marijtgen Bouwens van Leeuwen, so he clip off his travel plans and returned to Leiden. He was a flourishing painter who was established in the community. He joined the Leiden Guild of St. Luke and was one of a outfit 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 another time in 1610 and it was once more rejected.

He won lucrative portrait commissions from the Leiden schutterij in 1626 and painted a historical fragment for the city hall of Leiden where the mayor van der Werff offers his sword to the famished people of Leiden following the speech; If it will urge on you, cut my body into pieces and distribute this accompanied by you – this will comfort me. He in addition to won a commission from the Lutheran Church in 1640 for a series of paintings upon the vigor 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 The Hague in 1604 for three years, and he married Marijtgen who was from Oegstgeest on May 17, 1617 in Leiden. He was the teacher, not the pupil, of Coenraed van der Maes van Avenrode (probably a family aficionado of Evert), and next the bookish of the painters Jan Lievens and Abraham van den Tempel. According to Simon van Leeuwen he was then the speculative of Rembrandt.

His paintings in the Lutheran church and the city hall of Leiden yet hang where they were installed. He was the scholastic of Rembrandt, Jan Lievens, and Abraham van den Tempel.

It is unspecified whether he was linked to his contemporary in the same way as the same last name, the Amsterdam-born nevertheless life painter Floris van Schooten.