Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Willem Verstraeten te tama a te kaihokohoko Antwerp a Jean de la Rue, i wehe atu i Antwerp i muri tata mai i te
Ka hinga a Antwerp ka neke ki te Raki o Netherlands, ka whakamaori i tana ingoa French ki te Dutch "Jan Verstraeten". I neke ia ki Haarlem i te tau 1590. I whanau pea a Willem i muri tata mai i Haarlem, ana ka tukuna ia e tona papa ki Delft i te tau 1613, i mahi a Willem i te wheketere "De Porceleyne Schotel". I te tau 1617 ka tuhia a Willem ki reira hei "kaikirimana". I te tau 1625 i hoki mai ia ki Haarlem i whakatuwherahia ai e ia tana ake wheketere poraka "Geleyer Plateelbackerije" i te Begijnhof i hangaia ai e ia te "Hollands Porceleyn". I taea e ia te whakatipu i tana pakihi tere, na te mea i te 1628 "Willem Jansz op het Begijnhof" i whakahuahia e Samuel Ampzing hei kaihanga "plateel" rongonui. Ko nga tuhinga o Delft me Haarlem he tuhinga e whakaatu ana i nga ahuatanga rereke o tona oranga me tera o ana tama, ko Gerrit te mea nui i haere tonu tana pakihi i Haarlem. He tangata pakihi angitu a Willem, a, i mau ia i nga tuunga rangatira i te Haarlem Guild o St. Luke mai i te 1638. I mate ia i Haarlem i te tau 1655.