Jan Steen
Dutch, 1626–1679
A highly productive painter of exceptional narrative and comic genius, Steen painted history paintings and some portraits in addition to his more well-known genre scenes. His engaging oeuvre is rich and varied, drawing upon pictorial tradition, literary sources, and popular culture, and always acknowledging the artist's own often wry and humorous view of the world.
Dutch, after 1620–ca. 1669
Netherlandish, before 1420–1495