Floris van schooten biography of christopher

 
  Dutch painter. His considerable output of still-life paintings covers a variety of styles and formats reflecting different influences.

His large market or kitchen scenes, with or without figures, showing an abundance of produce (e.g.

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1634; Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum), clearly belong to the tradition of Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer. Van Schooten s breakfast-pieces, with an accumulation of items on a table top, tilted towards the spectator and covered with rugs or white damask cloths, are often inseparable from those of his Haarlem contemporaries Nicholas Gillis (fl.

1622-32) and Floris van Dijck. These horizontal panels, with cheese, hams, bread, all on separate pewter or porcelain plates, with vertical accents from tankards, salt-cellars and wine glasses, gradually evolved towards smaller-scale still-lifes with simplified content (e.g.

Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum ). This signals a transition from hi