It was probably a pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, worked first in the city, and then, from 1650 in Delft, where he died along with his entire family in the explosion of the powder magazine.

Of all the artists of the school of Rembrandt, it is more the other remained independent, looked at nature with his own eyes and reproduced it in all its simplicity, without prokrashivania Rembrandt's chiaroscuro, but the Sunny, juicy, sweet with a brush. His paintings are very rare.