Jan Havickszoon Steen (c. 1626 – 1679)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He was the eldest of eight or more children.
• Jan Steen attended the Latin school and became a student in Leiden.
• Contemporary sources tell us he received his painterly education from three men, Nicolaes Knupfer, Adriaen van Ostade, and Jan van Goyen.
• Jan van Goyen later become his father-in-law.
• In 1648 Jan Steen and Gabriël Metsu founded the painters' Guild of Saint Luke at Leiden.
• He became an assistant to the renowned landscape painter Jan van Goyen, and moved into his house on the Bierkade in The Hague. 
• On Oct 3, 1649 he married van Goyen's daughter Margriet.
• With Margriet he would have eight children.
• Steen worked with his father-in-law until 1654, when he moved to Delft.
• Steen lived in Warmond, just north of Leiden, from 1656 till 1660 and in Haarlem from 1660 till 1670.
• In 1670, after the death of his wife in 1669 and his father in 1670, Steen moved back to Leiden.
• When the art market collapsed in 1672, called the Year of Disaster, Steen opened a tavern.
• In April 1673 he married Maria van Egmont, who gave him another child.
• In 1674 he became president of the Saint Luke's Guild.
• Frans van Mieris became one of his drinking companions.
• He died in Leiden in 1679 and was interred in a family grave in the Pieterskerk.
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