Career
He was a pupil of the Antwerp engraver Frederik Bouttats the Younger. He spent some time in Paris. In 1675 he traveled to Rome where he continued to live and work for the rest of his life.
His nickname in the Bentvueghels was Weyman, meaning "Meadow man".
He wrote his name in red chalk in one of the niches in the church of Santa Costanza where the Bentvueghels used to congregate: jacobus Blondeau / alias de weymyn. This inauguration is also mentioned by early biographer Arnold Houbraken.
