Biography

According to Houbraken, who summarized a three-page poem about his work by Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie was a Brabant rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier.He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies...

, Jan Baptist van Deynum was a respected Flemish painter who quit his job as "hopman" of a schutterij

Schutterij

Schutterij refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces within the city, near the city walls, but, when the...

in Antwerp in order to have more time for painting. In 1662, his works could be admired in the "Koningshof" in Antwerp.

According to the RKD, he was a portrait painter active in Antwerp.