Career
Houbraken listed him with the Gouda painters January Damesz de Veth, January en Pieter Donker as noteworthy artists that he intended to include in his book of biographies. His source was Beschrijving der stad Gouda by Ignatius Walvis. In 1644 he painted the regents of the orphanage of Gouda with a self-portrait of himself standing behind his brother-in-law Hart on the left.
After his death his widow founded the Harten hofje in Gouda that was torn down in 1965.
