Steijn first received training from Henk Gorter in Amsterdam before moving to
Haarlem in 1935. According to the RKD, he was a pupil of
Henri Boot in 1937 and then studied for two years under
Kees Verweij. Steijn's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale
Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He lived and worked in Assendelft,
Oostzaan,
Jisp and
Wormer. After the war, he met and married Janna Koolman, who worked for Henriëtte Louise Posthuma, the owner of the estate
Groot Bentveld. He lived with her in one of the side wings of the estate where he kept his workshop. In 1969 he was a member of the Haarlem artist society "De Groep", the Amsterdam
Arti et Amicitiae, "Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars", "De Keerkring", and "Beroepsvereniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars"(BBK) He signed his works "WSTEYN". ==References==