Career
He spent most of his life in Enkhuizen and several works of his hang in the Enkhuizen city hall. He traveled to Italy in 1666 with Adriaen Backer, and after returning to Amsterdam, he then spent some time in London working for Sir Peter Lely in 1678. According to Houbraken he specialized in decorating galleries and decorated one at Huis Honselaarsdijk and one in Amsterdam for a gentleman named Mr.
Roeters.
When he returned from Italy he became friends with Johannes Voorhout, with whom he practised drawing in a small group from a naked model. He told Voorhout that he had been very keen on saving money and only spent 30 guilders in his whole year in Italy, and that was the reason he couldn"t spend much time with the Bentvueghels. This puzzled Houbraken, who wrote that he came from a good family and didn"t need to save.