Career
He was trained in the 1840s at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Hague and the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where he followed lessons by Nicolaes de Keyser, among others His pupils were Dirk Leonardus Kooreman, January Hendrik van Rossum du Chattel, Elias Stark, January Jacob Zuidema Broos, and Mathilde Tonnet.
