Career
In ca. 1650 he was a student of Ferdinand Bol in Amsterdam. According to Houbraken he was the first to paint carved trompe l"oeil wooden panels in such an ingenious way that they became quite popular. He painted historical allegories, portraits, still lifes, and genre-works.
These had been his students along with Margaretha van Godewijk who wrote an emblem about his self-portrait with a curtain, which illustrates the legend of Zeuxis.
Marcello Bacciarelli.