Career
He then set off on a 14-year journey, spending 4 years in Paris and Lyons, 2 years at the Court of Savoy in Turin, a year in Rome, and 7 years in Naples, before returning to Amsterdam. He painted landscapes in the manner of Johann Heinrich Roos and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. He was planning another journey south, and had stopped to see his mother in Dordrecht on the way, when he unexpectedly died.
He was influenced not only by Roos and Castiglione, but also by Pieter Mulier II and Luca Giordano.