He eventually settled down in his home town Kortrijk, where he set up his studio.
He kept a small menagerie with dogs, wolves, foxes, monkeys and even a camel.
[2] He painted principally dogs and monkeys, which he depicted with a lot of sense for psychology, and often in a rather humouristic way.
[2] The paintings typically are small in size,[2] and dates, titles and signatures often are hidden as box labels or in posters depicted in the work.
Like those two artists, he created a number of singeries, i.e. paintings of monkeys engaging in human activities.