Anthonie Verstraelen (1594-1641)

• Was a Dutch landscape painter.
• Gillis van Stralen, Antonie's father, was a textile merchant.
• The family originated in Weert but moved between 1584–1590 to Gorkum.
• In 1635 he married Catalijntje van Oosten from Antwerp.
• The couple went to live in Oude Spiegelstraat, near Singel.
• 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.
• Anthonie Verstraelen is best known for his winter scenes.
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