Biography

He was born in Naarden and became a painter, draftsman, engraver, and interior decorator. According to Houbraken his father was a doctor who apprenticed him to Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Jacob Adriaensz Backer was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years. In his style he was influenced by Wybrand de Geest, Rubens and Abraham Bloemaert. Also his drawings are highly interesting and skillful...

 to learn draftsmanship. He painted historical allegories, portraits, and scenes of naked women bathing. Houbraken liked especially an altarpiece in the Wallonian Catholic church of Amsterdam by his hand. Houbraken wrote that he was a friendly man with many entertaining stories, and he consulted him as a source for his books while he was bedridden. He mentions also that Neck was a great friend of Dirck Ferreris

Dirck Ferreris

Dirck Ferreris, Diederik, or Theodor Freres , was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:He spent most of his life in Enkhuizen and several works of his hang in the Enkhuizen city hall. He traveled to Italy in 1666 with Adriaen Backer, and after returning to Amsterdam, he then spent some time in...

, whose collection of drawings and papierkunst or paper-art (probably paper-cuts) came into his possession on his death.