Houbraken tells of an instance where he fell ill and the woman who let him a room tended to him and sent for the priest.

He spat out the sacramental bread, because he didn't want to die a Catholic, and this was found later under his bed by the woman, and at Easter she told him he had to move out.

[1] According to the RKD he travelled to Italy in 1623 and became a member of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke in 1624, where he also married in 1626.

Houbraken claims he made a print from his own drawing called "Ecce Homo" that was quite good.

[2] Besides his sons Samuel and Jan, he was the teacher of the painters Nicolaes Couwenbergh and Ossewaert.