Jan Baptist Bonnecroy

He entered into a contract of apprenticeship and was in 1644 enrolled as a pupil of Lucas van Uden.

The next year he passed his master test and was registered as a painter in the records of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.

[4] The View of Brussels now part of the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium was originally the property of the Dukes of Arenberg who kept it in their castle in Heverlee.

The paintings are in the Flemish Baroque tradition, and executed with liquid and ornamental rendering of the brushstrokes.

The British Museum holds seven of his etchings which were formerly attributed to his master Lucas van Uden.