He was born at Haarlem about 1612, and is supposed to have studied also under Nicolas Elias.

His finest large work is undoubtedly the "Banquet" to which I have just referred, but I always associate him with his portrait of Gerard Bicker, Landrichter of Muiden, that splendid tun of a man, No.

1140 in the Gallery of Honour at the Ryks Museum (see opposite page 86).

One of his most beautiful paintings is a portrait of a woman in our National Gallery, on a screen in the large Netherlands room: a picture which shows the influence of Elias not a little, as any one can see who recalls Nos.

897 and 899 in the Ryks Museum--two very beautiful portraits of a man and his wife.
Haarlem and Oudenarde both claim the birth of Adrian Brouwer, a painter of Dutch topers.