Biography

According to Houbraken he was born in Antwerp and became a portrait painter in the style of Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...

. Houbraken took his information from Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet

Het Gulden Cabinet

The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Free Art of Painting, or Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const, as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits written by the 17th century notary and rederijker Cornelis de Bie...

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According to the RKD He was baptized in the St.Jacobskerk in 1617 and married Catharina Lodewijcx in 1650. According to De Bie he was still alive and living in Antwerp at the time of publication (1661). No known works survive - all portraits previously attributed to him have since been reattributed to others. The later biographer Jacob Campo Weyerman

Jacob Campo Weyerman

Jacob Campo Weyerman was an eccentric painter and writer during the period known as the Dutch Enlightenment. His work encompassed flower and fruit still life paintings, satirical magazines, plays, and biographies of painters...

 claimed he saw a few of his paintings in Breda and could vouch for their close similarity to Van Dijck. Weyerman especially admired a set of portraits ("to the knee") of the Flemish painter Jan van Kessel

Jan van Kessel, senior

Jan van Kessel was a Flemish painter of still lifes, who was the father of another painter with the same name Jan van Kessel, and Jan Brueghel the Elder's grandson....

and his wife.