Background
His father worked as a claims examiner for a life insurance company.
His father worked as a claims examiner for a life insurance company.
From 1883 to 1888, he attended the Quellinusschool and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, where he studied painting with August Allebé and lithography with Rudolf Stang.
After graduating, he lived in Bussum for several years then taught at the School of applied arts in Haarlem from 1896 to 1906. Among his best-known students there were Arnold Willem Kort and Ina Scholtgen-van Heek. After 1906, he took up residence at the artists" colony in Laren.
From 1916 to 1923, he was back in Bussum, but spent the year 1920 on a study trip in Chicago.
He initially painted genre scenes, military personnel and interiors with figures. Foreign the last twenty years of his life, he focused on portraits.
In the late 1920s, he retired to Amsterdam and died there in 1931. Jeroen"s son Jasper is also an artist.
He was a long-standing member of Arti et Amicitiae.