Career
According to Houbraken in 1718, who repeated a list of names from Theodorus Schrevelius"s 1648 book on Haarlem called Harlemias, he was a good landscape painter of Haarlem along with Cornelis Vroom, son of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, "John Jakobsz.", who was in Italy for many years, "Nicol. Zuyker", Salomon van Ruysdael, and Reyer van Blommendael.
He was probably the pupil of Nicolaes Moeyaert.