On the basis of the inscribed date and age of the sitter on the front of this portrait, Floris Gerritsz van Schoterbosch would have been born around 1562. He was a son of Gerrit Willemsz van Schoterbosch. Beginning in 1579, he was registered under the name Florentius Gerardi as a law student at Leiden University. He later practized law, and on 8 January 1602 was sworn in as councillor at the Court of Holland, a position he held until his death in 1618. At the Court of Holland, he sided with the Remonstrants in their conflict with the Counter-Remonstrants. He was survived by his widow, Geertruyt Jansdr van Kerkhoven and their three children.13 This portrait replicates a lost prototype of 1604. Another replica of the 1604 prototype was executed as one half of a pendant pair by Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn.14 Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 74.