Career
According to the RKD he was a pupil of Petrus Franciscus Greive and Lambertus Johannes Hansen. He became art conservator of the Teylers Stichting in 1872, which manages the art collection of the Teylers Museum. In that capacity he wrote a catalog of the museum"s collection, that was published in 1904.
He painted several paintings that hang in the museum"s galleries, as well as decorations in the Teyler"s fundatiehuis, where he lived and worked from 1863 until his death.
He contributed illustrations for the Dutch history book "De voornaamste geschiedenissen van Noord-Nederland" by Jacob van Lennep. Works by him hang in the Rijksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum.