Bloemaert was born in
Utrecht. He studied with his father,
Abraham Bloemaert, his brothers
Hendrick and
Adriaan, and his father's pupil,
Gerard van Honthorst. Though originally trained as a painter, he devoted himself primarily to printmaking, which he learned from
Crispijn van de Passe. He went to
Paris in 1630, where he made engravings from among others,
Michel de Marolles's
Temple des Muses, before going to
Rome in 1633. These prints were published by
Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi around 1677 in Rome as part of a series of 15 unnumbered prints entitled
Heroicae Virtutes Imagines quas eques Petrus Beretinus pinxit Florentiae (Images of heroic deeds painted by the painted by the knight Pietro Berrettini of Florence). Other printmakers who worked on this series include
Coenraed Lauwers,
Albert Clouwet,
Jacques Blondeau,
Lambert Visscher,
Charles de La Haye,
Jean Gerardin, François Spierre and Pierre Simon. He died in Rome where he was buried on 28 September 1692. ==References==