Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - 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 ake bukatar aikinsa sosai a can don yin ado da gine-ginen da ake sake ginawa bayan mummunar Bombardment na Brussels
da Faransawa. 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.