Portrait painter, sculptor, writer and illustrator, younger brother of the writer on art and architecture John Steegman. He studied from 1922–4 at Slade School of Fine Art and then in Rome. He exhibited at ROI and NEAC and in 1931 had a solo exhibition at Claridge Gallery. Included were portraits of the pianist Harriet Cohen, the writers Somerset Maugham and Aldous Huxley and David Horner, close friend of Osbert Sitwell. National Portrait Gallery has the portrait of Maugham, Brighton Art Gallery and Museums that of Horner, lent to the National Portrait Gallery for the Sitwell exhibition in 1995. In 1933 Steegman set up a studio flat in Calcutta, India, where he painted rather stiff, formal portraits of notabilities and was interviewed by the magazine India about his experiences.