According to Roeland van Eynden and Adriaan van der Willigen in their dictionary of artists known as Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst, he was a pupil along with Petrus Camper of the genre painter Louis de Moni.
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He became a teacher himself and taught the anatomy writers Petrus Camper and Johannes le Francq van Berkhey.