Then he passed on to Adrian van Ostade and probably to Adrian Brouwer, with both of whom and Frans Hals we saw him carousing, after his wont, in a picture by Brouwer in Baron Steengracht's house at The Hague.

Finally he became the pupil of Jan van Goyen, painter of the beautiful "Valkhof at Nymwegen," No.

991 in the Ryks Museum, a picture which always makes me think of Andrew Marvell's poem on the Bermudas.

Like many another art pupil, Jan Steen married his master's daughter.
Jan van Goyen, I might add, was another of Leyden's sons.

He was born in 1596 and he died at The Hague in 1666, while London was suffering under the Plague.
Jan Steen seems to have intended to make brewing his staff and painting merely his cane; but good nature and a terrible thirst were too much for him.