Susanna van Steenwijk

Who was Susanna van Steenwijk?

Susanna van Steenwijk was a painter of small architectural exteriors active in Leiden and Amsterdam.

Susanna's father, Johan Gaspoel, was buried in 1622 in Westham in England, when his three children were not yet 21 years of age. In 1630 she married the architectual painter Hendrik van Steenwijk II, who was at least 20 years her elder. She baptized a son in Amsterdam in 1632 and one in Leiden in 1634.

Her known paintings are from the 1640s, and were made in Leiden and Amsterdam. Like her husband, she also made paintings of church interiors and a cabinet drawing of a church interior is known dated 1664 and signed "Susanna v. Steenwijk".