Aelbert Jansz van der Schoor (1603 – 1672)   

• Was a Dutch painter.
• Aelbert van der Schoor was the son of Jan Laurensz van der Schoor and Christina Everts.
• He is documented as being in Utrecht between 1620 and 1672.
• He is known to have worked at times in other places including Dordrecht and perhaps Enkhuizen.
• His earliest works date from the start of the 1640s.
• Although details of Van der Schoor’s life are sparse, it is known that in 1652 the banns were posted for his marriage to Elizabeth Jacobs de Blom of Dordrecht.
• But the wedding never happened as the bride feared that Van der Schoor was just interested in her money and backed out.
• The artist sued her for breach of promise, “taking the case through all the courts.”
• In 1654 the Supreme Court of Holland and Zeeland found in his favor and awarded him financial compensation.
• Shortly after his last known dated work in 1662, Van der Schoor was committed to the Utrecht house of correction and by 1666 the city’s asylum where he remained for the rest of his life.
• When Peter van den Brink compiled the catalogue raisonné of Van der Schoor’s known oeuvre in 1994 they numbered thirty but added that he felt the output must have been larger.

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