{"product_id":"prachtige-zesdelige-delfts-blauwe-tegelmontage-geinspireerd-door-jan-steen","title":"Beautiful six-piece Delft Blue Tile Mounting - Inspired by Jan Steen","description":"Discover this beautiful six-part tile montage of a Dutch scene with multiple characters and a hopeful dog.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe typical Delft blue represents a painting by Jan Steen.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe frame is 55cm x 40cm and each of the six tiles is 15cm x 15cm.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nInspired bottom right 'Het Prieel', Vrij Naar - Jan Steen 1626-1679.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJan Havickszoon Steen (ca. 1626 – buried February 3, 1679) was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age, one of the most important genre painters of the 17th century. His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humor and abundance of color.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSteen was born in Leiden, a city in South Holland, where his wealthy Catholic family were brewers who ran the De Rode Halbert inn for two generations. Steen's father even rented him his own brewery in Delft from 1654 to 1657. He was the eldest of eight or more children. Like his even more famous contemporary Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen attended Latin school and became a student in Leiden. He received his painting training from Nicolaes Knupfer (16031660), a German painter of historical and figurative scenes in Utrecht. Knupfer's influences can be found in Steen's composition and use of color. Other sources of inspiration were Adriaen van Ostade and Isaac van Ostade, painters of rural scenes who lived in Haarlem. It is not known whether Steen actually studied with Ostade.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn 1648, Jan Steen and Gabriël Metsu founded the painters' guild of Saint Luke in Leiden. Shortly afterwards he became an assistant to the famous landscape painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) and moved into his house on the Bierkade in The Hague. On October 3, 1649, he married Van Goyen's daughter Margriet, with whom he would have eight children. Steen worked with his father-in-law until 1654, when he moved to Delft, where he ran the De Slang (\"De Slang\") brewery for three years without much success. After the explosion in Delft in 1654, the art market was depressed, but Steen painted A Mayor of Delft and his Daughter. It does not seem clear whether this painting should be called a portrait or a genre work.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSteen lived in Warmond, just north of Leiden, from 1656 to 1660 and in Haarlem from 1660 to 1670 and was particularly productive in both periods. In 1670, after the death of his wife in 1669 and his father in 1670, Steen moved back to Leiden, where he remained for the rest of his life. When the art market collapsed in 1672, the Year of the Disaster, Steen opened an inn. In April 1673 he married Maria van Egmont, who bore him another child. In 1674 he became chairman of the Guild of Saint Luke. Frans van Mieris (1635-1681) became one of his drinking companions. He died in Leiden in 1679 and was buried in a family grave in the Pieterskerk.","brand":"Etsy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48507169341764,"sku":"20628653539_6764","price":299.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/2508\/4228\/files\/il_fullxfull.5974395253_pm0m.jpg?v=1716141471","url":"https:\/\/0c6dd0-1d.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/prachtige-zesdelige-delfts-blauwe-tegelmontage-geinspireerd-door-jan-steen","provider":"House of History","version":"1.0","type":"link"}