He was born in
Zwolle. According to the RKD he became a member of the
Confrerie Pictura in the years 1692–1699. He travelled to England in the service of
Hans Willem Bentinck, count of Portland. He contributed to his
Codex Bentingiana, a catalog of the flowers and insects in his garden called Bentingiana, that was later used as a source for
Leonard Plukenet's
Phytographia in 1692. He moved to
Dordrecht in 1702 where he stayed util his death in 1743. ==References==