 According to Karel van Mander he had been a pupil of Martin Van Cleve who first became a member of the Antwerp guild in 1579.He was a good landscape and staffage painter currently (ca.1603-1604) living in Delft, who took as his wife, the second wife of Frans Pourbus the Elder after he died suddenly in 1580.His pupil was Anthonie Palamedes in Delft.