Background
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.
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.
At 17 he was apprenticed to Coenraad van der Maas, a good portrait painter, for 3 years, in which short amount of time he became good enough to start out on his own.
In Delft he was strongly influenced by the school of Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt. He was a successful painter who was respected in the community. He joined the Leiden Guild of Saint Luke and was one of a group who sent a petition to the city fathers in 1609 for a new, more protective charter for the guild.
lieutenant was rejected and they attempted this again in 1610 and it was again rejected.
lieutenant is unknown whether he was related to his contemporary with the same last name, the Amsterdam-born still life painter Floris van Schooten.
He was the teacher, not the pupil, of Coenraed van der Maes van Avenrode (probably a family member of Evert), and also the teacher of the painters January Lievens and Abraham van den Tempel.