Career
According to Houbraken he was a multi-talented son and pupil of the painter and architect Salomon de Bray. He was known as a flower painter, but he could also sculpt. He carved a wooden bust of his father"s head, that Houbraken admired and used for his engraving of Salomon in his "Schouburg".
He became a monk in the Gaesdonck monastery near Goch.
Dirck was born into an artistic family. His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter January Westerbaen, and the poet Jacob Westerbaen.
He was a printmaker and painted flowerand hunting still lifes. After 1678 he moved to the Gaesdonck monastery.