Christiaen Striep (1634 in

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– 1673 in

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painter. According to Houbraken he was the teacher of the painter Abraham de Heusch.Christiaen Striep in Abraham de Heusch biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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According to the RKD he got married in Amsterdam in 1655 and in 1656 he became a citizen there.Christiaen Striep
in the

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He was a follower of

Otto Marseus van Schrieck Otto Marseus van Schrieck (ca. 1613, in Nijmegen – buried 22 June 1678, in Amsterdam) was a painter in the Dutch Golden Age. He is best known for his paintings of forest flora and fauna. Biography Marseus van Schrieck spent the years 1652 ...

and

Willem Kalf Willem Kalf (1619 – 31 July 1693) was one of the most prominent Dutch still-life painters of the 17th century, the Dutch Golden Age. We first get acquainted with Willem Kalf through Arnold Houbraken, in his Groot Schilderboek, who speaks very h ...

.Christiaen Striep, thistle painter after Marseus van Schrieck mentioned
in ''De groote schouburgh'' No other works than still-life paintings are known, and he did not date his works.

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