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. 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. Thanks to this miracle cure, Arpino could finish an altarpiece in the
Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. He was influenced by
Osias Beert and
Clara Peeters and is considered the inventor of the
banketje (banquet
still life genre similar to breakfasts, or
ontbijtjes), together with
Nicolaes Gillis. Besides Nicolaes Gilles, he influenced the painters
Floris van Schooten,
Pieter Claesz, and
Roelof Koets. He died in
Haarlem. File:Floris Van Dyck, Pièce de banquet.jpg|Dutch banquet with cheese, bread, nuts and fruit File:Floris Claesz. van Dyck 001.jpg|
Ontbijtje still life from 1610 at the
Frans Hals Museum, showing a Dutch breakfast with cheese, bread, nuts and fruit, served on a fine
white linen napkin protecting the tablecloth, which is a red or
karmozijn example of a kind popular in 17th-century Haarlem File:Still life pewter jug fruit cheese Floris van Dyck.jpg|Still life with pewter jug, fruit, and cheese File:St Lukasgilde Haarlem hierarchy 1631 - transcribed by CJ Gonnet in 1877.jpg|Transcription from 1877 of the proposed Haarlem painters' guild hierarchy in 1631. Floris van Dyck was one of the signatories, along with
Pieter de Molijn,
Outgert Ariss Akersloot,
Willem Claesz Heda,
Salomon de Bray,
Cornelis Cornelisz,
Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, and
Isaak Halinck. File:Korte spaarne 23-25.jpg|The former "De Olyphant" brewery, where Cornelis van Rijck lived and worked, and where he and his cousin Pieter probably kept a studio. ==References==