In 1629–1635, the young Stevens made a study trip abroad (probably Spanish Netherlands and Germany; in 1635, he was again in Prague, where the Augustinian Hermits at St. Thomas Church in Lesser Town (Malá Strana) became his first clients.

[3] In 1643, he was ennobled by Count Jaroslav Bořita of Martinice, who granted him the predicate von Steinfels and a family coat-of-arms.

[4] His work is extensive, he painted for a long time for the Strahov Monastery and it is the creator of a number of altarpieces in Prague churches and in the countryside (Augustinian Hermit's monastery in Bělá pod Bezdězem, the dean church in Žatec), also portraits, landscape paintings, murals as well as designs of these prints.

In the production of his two sons, Paul Anton and Johann Jakob (1651–1730), the painting dynasty, coming from Mechelen in Belgium, continued into a fourth generation.

ISBN 978-80-200-2801-3 Štěpán Vácha: Der Prager Maler Anton Stevens im Dienst des Fürsten Gundaker von Liechtenstein.