Career
When the baby pooped all over him, he promptly pulled down his pants and pooped on the baby. When Mistress Hals came in and asked what he was doing, he responded that they were shitting each other. Houbraken claims he was so good at painting portraits and silver, that Sir Peter Lely made a deal with him to stick to painting silver rather than portraits (which was his specialty) and this Roestraten did, earning forty to fifty pounds sterling for a piece.
He influenced Christian Berentz and Robert Robinson.