Jacobus Gerrittse Strijcker

Jacobus Gerritsen Stryker was born about 1620 at Ruinen, Drenthe, Holland.1 He married Ytie Huybrechts.1 He died in October 1687 at Midwout, Kings County, New York.1

Strycker, Jacobus Gerritsen: Artist. Born in 1619. Farmer, trader, magistrate, and "limner".

Born in Ruinen, province of Drenthe, in the Netherlands. His wife was Ytie Huybrechts, possibly related to the lady of the same surname, whose daughter at about the same time married Titus van Rijn, the son of a greater "limner," Rembrandt.

Stryker came to the New Netherland in 1651, a gentleman of considerable means and decided culture, and after a successful career died in 1687. We knew something of his office holding; he was Burgher in 1653 and afterwards Alderman of New Amsterdam, and also Attorney General Sheriff of the Dutch towns on Long Island up to August 1673.

Very little of his work as an artist is known. three of his portraits have been identified.

He left a son, Gerrit, who became Sheriff of Kings' County in 1688, and a brother, Jan, who also left descendants.

Compiler: Faye West, Edmonton, Alberta