According to Houbraken he was known along with Leonard van Orley for emblems in the manner of Jacob Cats.
[1] According to the RKD he was the teacher of his younger brother Jacques Damery and Gilles Hallet.
[2] He travelled to England in 1639 and the next year he left for Italy and on the way back in 1643 he was captured by pirates and taken to Algiers.
[2] He escaped and in 1644 made an altarpiece for the Cathedral of the southern French town Toulon.
[2] He then travelled north and stayed in Paris until 1646 before returning to Liege, where he took on pupils.