[2] After learning to draw from his father he studied sculpture with Willem van der Hoeven between 1672 and 1677.

According to the 18th century Dutch artist biographer Arnold Houbraken, after the death of his father in 1678 van Streek took up painting at the instigation of the animal painter Melchior d'Hondecoeter.

He became a student of the painter of church interiors Emmanuel de Witte who came to live with him in his house in the Kerkstraat for a few months.

Van Streek is mainly known for his church interiors and still life paintings of fruit and breakfast pieces.

[1] His church interiors are executed in a style very close to that of his master Emmanuel de Witte.