Career
He was either born in Leeuwarden or Antwerp. Between 1658 and 1661 he lived in Amsterdam. lieutenant is not known who was his instructor, but he grew to be sufficiently esteemed to be appointed first painter to the Stadtholder William Frederick in Leeuwarden in 1664.
He left an etching of the funeral catafalque of the Stadtholder in November 1664.
He died at Amsterdam, The Hague, or Leeuwarden in 1669.