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Harmen van Steenwyck (1612-56)
Leading Exponent of Vanitas Painting

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Biography

Among the leading Dutch Realist artists of the Delft/Leiden school, Harmen Steenwyck became one of the best still life painters of his time, specializing in the genre of vanitas still life painting, during the early years of Dutch Realism (c.1600-80) in Protestant Holland. In the field of still life pictures he ranks alongside his uncle David Bailly (1584-1657), as well as other exceptional painters like Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-83), Pieter Claesz (1597-1660), Willem Kalf (1622-93) and Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1681). He is best known for his masterpiece "An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life" (1640, National Gallery, London). Other exceptional paintings by Harmen Steenwyck include: "Still Life with Skull, Books, Flute and Whistle" (1646, Kunstmuseum Basel); "Still Life with Earthen Jar, Fish and Fruit" (1652, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam); "Still Life with Fish in a Colander

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Hendrik van Steenwijk II

Dutch painter

Hendrik van Steenwijck II (also Steenwyck, Steinwick) (c.1580–1640[1]) was a Baroque painter mostly of architectural interiors, but also of biblical scenes and still lifes.

Van Steenwijck was born in Antwerp. His father, the Dutch painter Hendrik van Steenwijck I, one of the originators of the interiors genre, moved the family to Frankfurt am Main in 1585, where he trained his son.[1][2] At his father's death in 1603, Van Steenwijck the Younger took over the studio in Frankfurt,[1] but from 1604 until 1617 he was primarily active in Antwerp, where he collaborated with early Flemish Baroque painters such as Frans Francken I and Jan Brueghel the Elder.[3]

Van Steenwijck is best known for the numerous imaginary interiors that were based on the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp.[2] These had an immediate influence on paintings by Pieter Neeffs I.[3] After settling in London by 1617, he painted backgrounds for Anthony van Dyck and Daniel Mytens the Elder.[

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Harmen Steenwijck

Dutch painter

Harmen Steenwijck or Harmen Steenwyck (c. 1612 – after 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialised in still life painting, especially in the style of Dutch vanitas.

Early life

Steenwyck was born in Delft, c. 1612. He was the brother of Pieter Steenwijck, also a still-life painter.[1] His father was Evert Hamenz who was an eyeglass maker. In 1628 he moved to Leiden to live and study with his uncle.[2] He and his brother were taught to paint by their uncle David Bailly in Leiden. Baily is credited with inventing the vanitas genre and he influenced Steenwyck to paint in the vanitas genre.[1] The exact dates of his paintings are not known because he did not date his paintings.[2]

Career

Harmen became active as a painter in Leiden between 1628 and 1633. Not much is known about his life but it was in Leiden that he began to paint in the vanitas genre. His formula for his paintings was to stage objects in a diagonal or triangle arrangement on a table.[2]

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