Flemish painter, active in Antwerp. He was a pupil of Nicolaas Geerts in 1607 and became master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1615. In 1624 he married Elisabeth Rombouts and the painter Abraham Govaerts was his best man. Only few works had been accredited with certainty to him, all are inscribed exclusively within the landscape genre, with significant influence from Gillis van Coninxloo, Abraham Govaerts, and the Brueghel family. //