Career
According to the RKD he was a still life painter whose birthplace is unknown. He is known for a few fruit still lifes and vanitas pieces during a very short period in Haarlem. One of his market scenes is adorned with the figure of a young woman reaching in a basket, that was painted by Frans Hals.
In the notes on town meetings in the archives of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke under April 4, 1633, the surgeon January Snijder and Pieter Jansz Saenredam declared to the mayors of Haarlem that all paintings on a list belonged to the estate of Claes van Heussen, in the name of his widow.
Van Heussen was listed in the guild, but without noting the year of membership.