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His heart-wrenching letters from prison were published in the Martyrs Mirror. During his short imprisonment, he was persuaded to paint the local sheriff in the role of Solomon in an allegorical painting for the vierschaar in the city hall of Dordrecht. This painting and the story of its creation was a Dordrecht public attraction in 1712, when Houbraken was writing.
Though he was the painter of the piece, this story was proved wrong a century later when archival evidence showed that the painting had already been paid for two decades earlier in 1552.
lieutenant remains highly ironic however, to think that he was tried for religious crimes in the same room for which he created the main decoration. He left a wife, a daughter of 7 years, and "a great rumour".
His story and letters he wrote in prison were published in the Martyrs Mirror, also known as "t Bloedig Tooneel der Doopsgezinden, by Tieleman Jansz van Bracht. Houbraken quoted both Mathias Balen"s Beschryvinge van Dordrecht and the Martyrs Mirror, pag.
590. and p. 628.