He achieved success as a painter in Antwerp. He married Maria Lomboy on 2 February 1689. The couple had six children. After his wife died in 1696, he was called to Brussels. There was at the time a significant demand for his work there to decorate buildings that were being reconstructed after the vile Bombardment of Brussels by the French. He became a member of the Brussels Guild of Saint Luke in 1699. He obtained commissions from Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, the governor of the Southern Netherlands, whose palaces in Brussels he decorated.