Hendrick van Streeck (1659 - 1720)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors.

• Hendrik was born in the Jordaan, a working-class neighborhood in Amsterdam as the son of the painter Juriaen van Streeck.

• After learning to draw from him took to sculpting with Willem van der Hoeven between 1672 and 1677.

• In 1683 he married Maria van Hockom; the couple had three children.

• Hendrik was advised by Melchior de Hondekoeter to stick to painting, and he became a student of Emmanuel de Witte.

• Houbraken wrote he learned to paint church interiors so well that his art was hard to tell apart from De Witte's.

• Hendrick was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk, his widow died in 1753.

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