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Anonymous
Meinardus Schotanus (1593-1644). Painted after a lost portrait of 1641 by J. van Zuylen or a print after that portrait. Canvas, 66.5 × 54 cm.

Franeker, Museum 't Coopmanshûs, inv.nr. Sch. 3. From the Senate Chamber of Franeker University.

The sitter was a theologian from a family of jurists. His father Henricus taught law, as did his brother Bernardus. Meinardus was an orthodox Calvinist who was much sought after as a preacher. He filled a chair in theology in Franeker from 1620 to 1632, when he accepted a chancel in Leeuwarden. He returned to the academic life in 1636 in Franeker, moving on quickly, in 1637, to Utrecht. There he became the ally of Gisbertus Voetius in a 'theological triangle' whose third leg was Carolus de Maets.

NNBW, vol.9, cols. 1000-1001. Ekkart 1977, nr.74.