Steenwijck, Pieter van
Delft, h. 1615, después de 1656He was the son of Evert Steenwijck, Brillenmaecker (spectacle maker) of Delft, and the younger brother of the still life painter Herman Steenwijck (1602/22–1656/76). Documents reveal that his training took place in the workshop of his uncle David Bailly (1584–1657), an esteemed portrait and still life painter from Leiden. Upon completing his apprenticeship, he returned to Delft, where he joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1644. Between 1652–54, he appears documented in The Hague. We subsequently lose track of him; the only surviving reference to him being a vanitas dated 1656 (Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden) (Posada Kubissa, T.: Pintura holandesa en el Museo Nacional del Prado. Catálogo razonado, 2009, p. 259).
