Abraham Cornelisz van der Schalcken - detail of schutterstuk by Frans Hals 1639

Abraham Cornelisz van der Schalcken (1582 – 1642), was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

sergeant of the local militia and coster of the Grote Kerk, Haarlem.

Biography

He was born in Haarlem as the son of Cornelis Symonsz from

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and Albertje Jansdr on 28 August 1582. He married Grietje Geraerts Gestel in October 1606 in the Grote Kerk where he was coster.Abraham Cornelisz van der Schalcken
in ''Jaarboek Haerlem 1961'', pp. 72-75, on website of the North Holland Archives His portrait was painted by

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

in The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639 and he was the father of the landscape painter Cornelis Symonsz van der Schalcke. He died in Haarlem.

References

1582 births 1642 deaths People from Haarlem Frans Hals {{Netherlands-bio-stub