• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. • Juriaen van Streek was born in the year 1632 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. • In 1653 he married Grietje Claes. • The couple lived in several locations in the Jordaan then moved to Prinsengracht. • They had nine children, three were buried young. • When Van Streeck died he was an innkeeper in Kerkstraat. • According to Houbraken, Van Streeck excelled at all still life subjects, including helmets, books, letters, musical instruments, and skulls or dead animals to indicate the transience of life. • He was a follower of Willem Kalf and influenced Barend van der Meer. • Houbraken also wrote an entry for his son Hendrick van Streeck, who became a student of Emanuel de Witte and painted church interiors.
Juriaen van Streeck, Still Life with Moor and Porcelain Pots, ca. 1670-80
Original, The Pinakotheken, Munich, Germany. Visited in 2019.
