Jacob Cornelisz Schout

Jacob Cornelisz Schout holding his flag and looking over at his father. Detail The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company — Frans Hals, Frans Hals Museum

Jacob Cornelisz. Schout (c.1600 – after 1627), was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij.

Biography

He was born in Haarlem as the son of the judge Cornelis Jacobsz Schout, and was a flag bearer of the white brigade (and therefore bachelor) of the St. George militia in Haarlem from 1612 to 1627. He was portrayed three times in schutterstukken:

by Frans Hals in The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616, by Pieter de Grebber in The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1624, by Hals in The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627.

He died in Haarlem after 1627. He was succeeded as a flag bearer by Pieter Schout.