Joris van Schooten

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.

[1] In Delft he was strongly influenced by the school of Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt.

He also won a commission from the Lutheran Church in 1640 for a series of paintings on the life of man.

[4] He was the teacher of Rembrandt, Jan Lievens, 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.