Loth Schout (1600 – 1655), 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, ...

brewer of

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Biography

He was born in

as the son of judge Jan Jacobsz Schout and Dirkje Steyn, brewers of ''Twee Gecroonde Starren''. Loth became a flag bearer of the St Adrian militia in 1622-1630.Loth Schout
in the

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record for this group portrait He was portrayed 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 his

schutterstuk Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...

called ''

The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627 ''Banquet of the officers of the Calivermen Civic Guard, Haarlem'' formerly known as ''The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627'', refers to a ''schutterstuk'' painted by Frans Hals, in 1627, for the St. Adrian (or St. ...

''. He quit the militia when he married on 25 August 1630 to Geertruyd Borst (d.1649), the daughter of Cornelis Gerbrandsz & Trijntje Willemsdr, brewers in ''De Passer''. He died in Haarlem.

References

Loth Schout
in ''De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken'', by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 60, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives 1600 births 1655 deaths People from Haarlem Frans Hals Dutch brewers {{Netherlands-bio-stub