Steen, Jan, Dutch painter, born in Leyden; was a genre painter of the style of Rembrandt, and his paintings display severity with sympathy and a playful humour; he is said to have led a dissipated life, and to have left his wife and a large family in extreme destitution (1626‒1679).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Steele, Sir Richard * Steevens, George