Career
According to Houbraken he travelled to Rome and joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Schildpad" (turtle). He painted a portrait of the Amsterdam poetess Catharina Questiers and sculpted a relief of an hourglass with the motto "Myn Glas loopt Ras" ("my glass drains fast") that was installed on a house on the Herengracht in Amsterdam, and both of these artworks were the subject of poems themselves by the Amsterdam poets Cornelis van Ryssen and January Koenerding. According to the RKD he left Amsterdam for Indonesia in 1676.
There he drew landscapes that were later published in 1682 in Johan Nieuhof"s book called "Zeeen lantreize door verscheidene gewesten von Oost Indien" ("Sea and land journey through the East Indies").