Antonie Van Stralen

Winterlandschap, Antonie Verstralen (1623)

Anthonie Verstraelen or Van Stralen ( Gorkum, 1593/1594 -

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, 1641) was a Dutch

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, best known (with Hendrik Avercamp and his nephew Barend Avercamp) for his winter scenes. Gillis van Stralen, Antonie's father, was a textile merchant. The family originated in

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but moved between 1584-1590 to Gorkum, presumably because of

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's armies marching through the area. We don't hear much from Anthonie Verstraelen, until 1635 when he married Catalijntje van Oosten from

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. The location of the wedding is unknown. The couple went to live in Oude Spiegelstraat, near

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. 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

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. 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 unknown Leiden ' 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''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Verstraelen, Anthonie Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters 1590s births 1641 deaths People from Gorinchem