Flemish painter. He had a peripatetic career working in various cities and countries including his hometown Mechelen, Paris, Annonay, Brussels, Antwerp and Breda. He worked in many genres including genre scenes of interiors with merry companies and gallery paintings, history painting, still-life and portraiture.
Formerly this work was attributed by Gonzales Coques, done in collaboration with Pieter Gijsels and Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg. The old attribution of the landscape and animals to Pieter Gijsels, who liked to paint on copper supports, is convincing.
The painting depicts the scene when the legend of William Tell is shown to the Board Members of the Antwerp Old Archduke Guild in the presence of Chief Snijers and his successor Jan Baptista Greijns.
