He went to Vienna in 1657, possibly with the Dutch painter Jan van Ossenbeeck whom he would have met in Rome and had later joined him in Brussels.
[1] He was succeeded at the court by his son Nickolaus Van Hoy the Younger (Antwerp 1660- Vienna ca.
[1] He engraved religious scenes and mythological figures adapted from originals of Veronese, Barocci and Raphael.
He was one of the artists and engravers who collaborated with David Teniers the Younger on the publication entitled "Theatrum Pictorium", a catalogue of the picture gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.
[5] He made a series of 13 engravings of cavalcades or equestrian ballets, which were later remade by Jan van Ossenbeeck.