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Floris had 9 siblings: Aartje Lokhorst (born van Dijk), Albert van Dijk and 7 other siblings.
Floris van Dyck
Dutch painter
In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Dyck, not Dyck.
Floris van Dyck, also called Floris van Dijck or Floris Claesz.
van Dyck (c.1575 – before 26 April 1651) was a Dutch Golden Agestill life painter.
Biography
Van Dyck lived in Haarlem for most of his life, but he was born in Delft. He was a cousin of Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, whose father Cornelis first had a brewery in Delft before moving to the "De Olyphant" brewery in Haarlem.[1][2] In 1600 he was documented as being in Rome, where he was a good friend of Joseph van Arpino and witnessed him being cured of an ailment with Olio del gran Duco, an oil given to him by the Pope's personal physician, with which he smeared himself all over his body.[3] Thanks to this miracle cure, Arpino could finish an altarpiece in the Archbasilica of St.
John Lateran.[3]
In 1606 he returned to the Netherlands, where he settled in Haarlem and became one of