Kammala wannan jumla: Ya sami nasara a matsayin mai zane a Antwerp. Ya auri Maria Lomboy a ranar 2 ga Fabrairu 1689. Ma'auratan suna da 'ya'ya shida. Bayan mutuwar matarsa a shekara ta 1696, an kira shi zuwa Brussels. Akwai a lokacin da wani gagarumin bukatar da ya yi aiki a can don ado gine-gine da aka sake gina bayan da m
Harin bam na Brussels da Faransawa suka yi. Ya zama memba na Brussels Guild na Saint Luke a shekara ta 1699. Ya sami kwamitocin daga Maximilian II Emanuel, Mai Zaben Bavaria, gwamnan Kudancin Netherlands, wanda fadarsa a Brussels ya yi ado.