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Jan Havickszoon Steen (c. 1626 – 1679)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century. 
• He was the eldest of eight or more children. 
• In 1648 Jan Steen and Gabriël Metsu founded the painters' Guild of Saint Luke at Leiden.
• Soon after he became an assistant to the renowned landscape painter Jan van Goyen.
• In 1674 he became president of the Saint Lucas Guild.
Frans van Mieris became one of his drinking companions. 
• Steen was prolific, producing about 800 paintings, of which roughly 350 survive.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Self-portrait, c. 1670.
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