Harmen Steenwijck

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.

Harmen Steenwijck
Bornc. 1612
Delft NL
Died1656(1656-00-00) (aged 43–44)
Leiden
NationalityDutch
EducationDavid Bailly
Known forVanitas
Notable workStill life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life
StyleRealism (arts)
MovementMemento mori
FamilyBrother Pieter Steenwijck

Early life
Still life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human 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]

Steenwijck is best known for his painting which was done in the Dutch vanitas genre: Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life. He painted the image in Leiden c. 1640. It is in the collection of the National Gallery, London.[1]

References
  1. "Harmen Steenwyck". The National Gallery. The National Gallery. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  2. Tabri, Edward; Koozin, Kristine (1990). Political Culture in the Early Northern Renaissance. Lewiston, New York: Mellen. pp. 45–49. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
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