Career
Gillis van Stralen, Antonie"s father, was a textile merchant. The family originated in Weert but moved between 1584-1590 to Gorkum, presumably because of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma"s armies marching through the area. The location of the wedding is unknown.
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.
The paintings must have been sold very cheap. His widow remarried their guardian Emmanuel Jacobszoon van Hoogerheijm, an unknown Leiden "fijnschilder".
This article is a translation from the Dutch Wikipedia.