Career
He was a pupil of the Academy of that city, but he owed much to his study of the pictures in some private collections. He became a professor in the Academy, and Dean in the Painters" Guild in 1786. Many artists of note studied under him, and he had a large practice as a picture-restorer.
In 1814 he was engaged in bringing back the pictures taken by the French to Paris.
He died in 1830. In the Antwerp Museum is a Shepherd and Flock by him. He excelled in painting moonlights.
