Biography

Dutch painter. He was a pupil of Philip van Dijk (1680-1753) at the Hague. He studied the works of Gerard Dou, and imitated the manner of Frans van Mieris the Elder. He accompanied Philip van Dijk to Kassel, and afterwards settled at Leiden, where he died in 1771. His paintings consist of portraits and genre pieces of a simple and pleasing character, though cold in colouring.