He is the best-known member of a family of painters active in the 16th and 17th centuries during the
Dutch Golden Age. A pupil of
Jacob Pynas in Amsterdam, he worked in London from 1639 to 1641, where he was a friend of
Anthony van Dyck. His portraits were popular in his own lifetime, and according to Houbraken's biography of
Jan Verkolje, he was an inspiration to aspiring portrait painters. He painted a now-lost portrait of Govert Flinck which
Abraham Blooteling made into a print. ==References==