Jacob Cornelisz Schout

Jacob Cornelisz Schout
Detail Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard — Frans Hals (1627), Frans Hals Museum
Jacob Cornelisz Schout holding his flag and looking over at his father. Detail The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company — Frans Hals (1616), Frans Hals Museum

Jacob Cornelisz. Schout (c.1600 – after 1627), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij.

Biography

Detail The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company — Pieter de Grebber (1624)

He was born in Haarlem as the son of the judge Cornelis Jacobsz Schout, and was a flag bearer of the white brigade (and therefore bachelor) of the St. George militia in Haarlem from 1612 to 1627. He was portrayed three times in schutterstukken:

He died in Haarlem after 1627. He was succeeded as a flag bearer by Pieter Schout.

References

  • Frans Hals Museum
  • Jacob Cornelisz Schout in De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 68, Haerlem : jaarboek 1958, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives



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