Antonie van Stralen

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Ant(h)onie van Stralen (or Verstralen) (Gorkum, 1593/1594 - Amsterdam, 1641) was a Dutch landscape painter, best known (with Hendrik Avercamp and his brother Barend Avercamp) for his winter scenes.

The Van Stralen family originated in Weert. Antonie's father, Gillis van Stralen, was a textile merchant. The family moved between 1584-1590 to Gorkum, presumably because of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma's armies marching through the area.

Antonie van Stralen around 1635 married Catalijntje van Oosten from Antwerp, though the location of the wedding is unknown. The married couple went to live in Oude Spiegelstraat, Amsterdam. Antonie there got into a dispute with the Sint Lucasgilde, for its laxness in allowing in too many non-citizen painters.

In 1641 he was buried by his two children in the Westerkerk. In 1644 two hundred guilder was raised for his two children from their sale of their father's paintings. Their widowed mother married their guardian Emmanuel Jacobszoon van Hoogerheijm, a Leiden 'fijnschilder'. Three months later their first son became born, Jacob van Hogerheijm, who also became an artist.