Hendrik van Steenwijk I

Hendrik van Steenwijck I (also Steenwyck, Steenwijk) (c. 1550, Kampen – buried 1 September 1603, Frankfurt ^[1]) was a student of the architectural painter Hans Vredeman de Vries, and the father of Hendrik van Steenwijk II^[2] He is known to have worked in Aachen (1573-6), Antwerp (1577-85) and Frankfurt (from 1586 on)^[1].

Van Steenwijck is the earliest-known painter of architectural interiors, a genre that was popular in Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting.^[3] In addition to introducing the new genre, he also worked with more natural lighting and perspectival space than found in the works of his teacher Vredeman de Vries.^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Hendrik van Steenwijck I at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
^ ^a ^b Frans Baudouin, "Hendrick van Steenwijk (i)," Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, [accessed November 26, 2007].
^ Seymour Slive (1995). Dutch Painting 1600-1800. Pelican history of art. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 262–276. ISBN 0300064187.

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Name	Steenwijk, Hendrik van, I
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Date of death	1603
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