Dutch painter, born in Antwerp. He moved with his parents to Haarlem, where he was documented between 1610 and 1631. In 1635 he married there Tanneken Abeel from Bruges. Only a few paintings by him survived, mostly banquet pieces (banketje or ontbijtje) painted in a style close to that of Floris van Dijck. Floris van Dijck and Nicolaes Gillis exerted a strong influence on the following generation of painters. //