biography
| name: |
Steen, Jan (Havickszoon)
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pronunciation:
[stayn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1626–79)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Leyden, W Netherlands. He joined the Leyden guild of painters in 1648, lived in The Hague until 1654, then became a brewer at Delft and an innkeeper at Leyden. His best works were genre pictures of social and domestic scenes depicting the everyday life of ordinary folk, as in ‘The Music Lesson’ (National Gallery, London). |
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