After Rubens' death, Pontus worked with other leading Antwerp painters such as Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens.

On 26 April 1634, the famous but impoverished genre painter Adriaen Brouwer took up lodgings in his house as the two men were close friends.

[6] It has been suggested that Brouwer's painting called Fat man or Luxuria (Mauritshuis), which possibly represents the deadly sin of lust, is at the same time a portrait of Paulus Pontius.

[4] His pupils included Alexander Voet the Younger, Coenraet Waumans and Frans van den Wyngaerde.

[3] Pontius was able to develop early in his career a personal style characterized by precise drawing that renders the original painting accurately.

This quality of his work made him one of the most sought after engravers for the various publication projects of the prominent portrait painters active in Flanders at the time.