He painted still lifes, chiefly game pieces and live and dead fowl.
Puytlinck was born in Roermond, Limburg, in the southern part of the Netherlands,[1] where he was baptized on 11 November 1640.
[2] In Rome he joined the Bentvueghels, earning the nickname Trechter.
[4] In 1667 he was a witness in a trial regarding an English artist who was stabbed to death in Rome in Via del Babuino.
[2] In this period he taught Jan Frans van Douven, his cousin.