Biography

According to Van Mander in 1604, he learned to draw from Jacob Willemsz Delff

Jacob Willemsz Delff

Jacob Willemszoon Delff the Elder, was a portrait painter active in Delft. He is known by a picture of an 'Archery-feast' in the Hotel de Ville at Delft, dated 1592 ; and by a 'Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob,' in the Belvedere at Vienna, bearing the date 1584. He also painted 'The...

, but was meant for another profession, and spent time on other business for a few years before returning to the arts under the tutelage of Huybrecht Jacobsz Grimani

Huybrecht Jacobsz Grimani

Huybrecht Jacobsz, or Hubertus Grimani , was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:According to Houbraken he was a contemporary of Adriaen van Utrecht who travelled to Italy and spent many years in the service of Marino Grimani in Venice, whose name he adopted...

 for 6 months. He accompanied him to Italy, where he remained for 15 years, working for local and visiting nobility all over Italy. At the time van Mander was writing, in 1602-1604, he was living in Haarlem

Haarlem

Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...

 (aged 36) and discussed Italian painters with him. Van Mander mentions a kitchen piece with a rich man and Lazarus

Lazarus and Dives

The Parable of the rich man and Lazarus is a well known parable of Jesus which appears in one of the Four Gospels of the New Testament....

 by his hand that was painted for the Het Dolhuys

Het Dolhuys

Het Dolhuys is a national museum for psychiatry in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The museum was founded in 2005 in the newly renovated former old age home known as Schoterburcht, located just across the Schotersingel from the Staten Bolwerk park. The whole complex is much older than that however,...

 and could be seen there. Van Mander called him a follower of Bassaens (Jacopo Bassano

Jacopo Bassano

Jacopo Bassano , known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, from which he adopted the name.- Life :...

).

Houbraken mentioned him as one of the important contemporary painters listed in Van Mander.

According to the RKD he was registered in Venice 1588-1602, Haarlem 1602-1604, and returned to Italy in 1605. He painted portraits, kitchen pieces, and market scenes and lived in Naples 1632- 1637.