- Antonie van Stralen
Ant(h)onie van Stralen (or Verstralen) (
Gorkum , 1593/1594 -Amsterdam , 1641) was a Dutchlandscape painter , best known (withHendrik Avercamp and his nephewBarend Avercamp ) for his winter scenes.Gillis van Stralen, Antonie's father, was a textile merchant. The family originated in
Weert but moved between 1584-1590 to Gorkum, presumably because ofAlessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma 's armies marching through the area.We don't hear much from Antonie van Stralen, until 1635 when he married Catalijntje van Oosten from
Antwerp . The location of the wedding is unknown. The couple went to live in Oude Spiegelstraat, nearSingel . In Amsterdam Antonie got into a dispute with the Sint Lucasgilde, for its laxness in allowing in too many non-citizen painters.In 1641 he was buried in the
Westerkerk . In 1644 his two children inherited two hundred guilder each from the sale of their father's paintings. The paintings must have been sold very cheap. His widow remarried their guardian Emmanuel Jacobszoon van Hoogerheijm, an unknownLeiden 'fijnschilder '. Three months later their first son became born, Jacob van Hogerheijm, who also became a forgotten painter."This article is a translation from the Dutch Wikipedia".
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