Schouten is a surname of Dutch origin. It generally has an occupational root, where the forebear was a schout, but can also be patronymic, as Schoute once was used as a given name. [1] The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 37th in 2007 (17,626 people). [2] Variations include Schout, Schoute, Schoutens, Scholten and Scholte . People with this surname include:
Willem Cornelisz Schouten was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean.
Pieter Bodding van Laer was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known for genre scenes, animal paintings and landscapes placed in the environs of Rome.
Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and etcher. He is one of the early specialists in the merry company type of subject in Dutch genre painting. His contemporaries named him “Gheestige Willem”.
Pieter Jacobsz Codde was a Dutch painter of genre works, guardroom scenes and portraits.
Laurens Reael was an employee of the Dutch East India Company, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1616 to 1619, and an admiral of the Dutch Republican Navy from 1625 to 1627.
The Admiralty of Rotterdam, also called the Admiralty of de Maze, was one of the five Dutch admiralties in the Dutch Republic.
Scholten is a surname of Dutch origin and a variant of the name Schouten. It may refer to:
Pieter Jacobsz. Duyfhuysen (1608–1677) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre.
Kunst zij ons doel, or KZOD, is the name of an artists club in the Waag, Haarlem.
The Eerste Schilderijenzaal, or Painting Gallery I, is one of two art gallery rooms in Teylers Museum and is the oldest art gallery for contemporary Dutch art in the Netherlands. It was built onto the back of Teylers Oval Room in 1838. It was the young museum's first exhibition space for paintings and could be entered through the Oval Room, which was itself located behind the Fundatiehuis, the former home of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst.
The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616 refers to the first of several large schutterstukken painted by the Dutch painter Frans Hals for the St. George civic guard of Haarlem, and today is considered one of the main attractions of the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
Nicolaes Woutersz van der Meer was a Dutch brewer, magistrate and mayor of Haarlem, best known today for his portrait with its pendant of his wife Cornelia Claesdr Voogt, both painted by Frans Hals in 1631.
Jacob Cornelisz Schout, was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij.
Cornelis Jacobsz Schout, was a Dutch Golden Age member of the Haarlem schutterij.
Jan Gaykema Jacobsz. was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and botanical illustrator.
Schout is a Dutch surname derived from the former occupation of schout, local official appointed to carry out administrative, law enforcement and prosecutorial tasks. Notable people with this surname include: