Career
According to the RKD he was a pupil of August Allebé and Pierre Cuypers at the Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers in Amsterdam in 1888, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten there in (1889-1891). A president of the artists" association Arti et Amicitiae, he was a favorite of the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina. In 1922 he accompanied Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on a trip to Norway as her painting teacher.