Nicolaes van der Steen, or Nicolaas Stenius (1605 – 1670), was a Dutch theologian, best known today for his portrait by

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Biography

He was born in Haarlem, and according to the

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he became canon priest of the

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Haarlem chapter or ''kapittel''. He moved to

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in 1631.Nicolaas Stenius
in the

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, part 9, by P.J. Blok and

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In 1633 he built a "barn church" there, that was torn down in 1868 to make way for a graveyard. He is known for his translations from Latin into Dutch, such as the decisions of the

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, and John Barclay's ''Joannes Barclai Paraenesis ad sectarios libri II''. He handled the legacies of the pastors of

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and Crommenie, and made a poem about Pieter IJsbrantsz, the pastor of

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, which was included under IJsbrantsz's engraved portrait. He died in Akersloot. When the Monsignor Jacobus Graaf started collecting art in the 1860s for the " Bischoppelijk Museum" in Haarlem, Graaf found the portrait of ''Nicolaas Stenius'' by Frans Hals crumpled in the attic of his old rectory in Akersloot.Book review
of the catalog of the paintings in the

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At that time, the Haarlem museum was located in an old seventeenth-century manor house on the Jansstraat in 1893. The collection moved to Utrecht after the museum closed in the 20th-century.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Steen, Nicolaes van der 1605 births 1670 deaths 17th-century Dutch Roman Catholic priests Clergy from Haarlem Frans Hals