[1] According to Houbraken he travelled to Italy with Lieve Verschuier and became friends with Willem Drost and Johann Carl Loth.

[1] Houbraken tells a curious story about Vermeer van Utrecht in his biography of Jan Davidsz de Heem.

This was an enormous sum of money, but Houbraken mentions that his grandfather had been a wealthy man, and until his factory was destroyed, Vermeer van Utrecht had been painting for pleasure, rather than professionally.

The amount is meant as an indication of the fame and esteem of De Heem, rather than the wealth of Vermeer van Utrecht.

In 1672 the Utrecht council takes pity on him, and gave him the post of Toll-collector and controller of the river lock at Vreeswijk, where he later remarried.