Harmen Steenwijck

Harmen Steenwijck or Harmen Steenwyck (c. 1612 – after 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialised in still life painting, especially in the style of Dutch vanitas.

He was the brother of Pieter Steenwijck, also a still-life painter.

[2] He and his brother were taught to paint by their uncle David Bailly in Leiden.

Not much is known about his life but it was in Leiden that he began to paint in the vanitas genre.

His formula for his paintings was to stage objects in a diagonal or triangle arrangement on a table.