Career
According to Houbraken he was the father of Govert van der Leeuw. He was born at Dordrecht where he became a pupil of Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp. He did well as a painter of live animals such as cows and sheep, but he gave up painting and he became a collector of the excise duties on beer, living at Dordrecht till his death.
According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painter Jacob Gerritsz.
Cuyp in 1638 and became the father of the artists Govert and Pieter van der Leeuw.
