Van der Burg was born and died in
Dordrecht. According to
Jan van Gool he was the pupil of
Arnold Houbraken and accompanied him to Amsterdam where he completed his education before returning to Dordrecht, where he became a popular portrait painter and the teacher of
Aert Schouman and
Cornelis Greenwood. Schouman made the engraving voor Jan van Gool's book based on a self-portrait that Schouman bought from Adriaan van der Burg's widow. ==References==