Abraham van Strij (1753–1826) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Van Strij was born and died in Dordrecht. According to the RKD he was the son of Leendert and the brother of Jacob. Both he and his brother were pupils of his father, and after taking lessons from Joris Ponse, Abraham allied his father’s workshop. He was a zealot of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke and highly developed its director. His son Abraham II with became a painter, and besides his son, he and his brother took on pupils after taking more than their father’s workshop. Their pupils were Pieter Rudolph Kleijn, Johannes van Lexmond, Jacob de Meijer, Johannes Rutten, Johannes Schoenmakers, Johannes Christiaan Schotel, and Gillis Smak Gregoor.
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