Block was born into an artistic family in
Lübeck; his father
Daniel Blok and brothers Emanuel and Adolf were painters. In 1653 he was registered in
Halle, Spanish Netherlands, the flower painter
Anna Catharina Fischer. There he made portraits for the margraves of Ansbach and the
Vienna court until 1670. He was knighted by
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor in 1684. His wife remained a painter after her marriage, and along with their parents, this duo is mentioned in the artist biographies of
Joachim von Sandrart and
Arnold Houbraken. He died in
Regensburg in 1690. ==References==