Jan steen biography

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          Jan Steen

          17th-century Dutch painter

          For the steamship, see SS Jan Steen.

          Jan Havickszoon Steen (c. 1626 – buried 3 February 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century.

          His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour.[1]

          Life

          Steen was born in Leiden, a town in Southern Holland, where his well-to-do, Catholic family were brewers[2] who ran the tavern The Red Halbert for two generations.

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        5. Jan Steen was born in Leiden in He was the eldest son of Havick Steen (–70) and Elisabet Capiteyn (–69), the daughter of a town clerk.

          6. Steen's father even leased him a brewery of his own in Delft from the years 1654 until 1657. He was the eldest of eight or more children. Like his even more famous contemporary Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen attended the Latin school and became a student in Leiden.

          Though no official records of Steen's artistic training are preserved, contemporary sources tell us he received his painterly education from three men, Nicolaes Knupfer (1603–1660), a German painte