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According to Houbraken he was trained in drawing by Abraham Toorenvliet — , a glass painter and drawing instructor and father of Jacob Toorenvliet , and he learned the art of painting from Gerrit Dou. At the time Houbraken was writing he was still alive and painting in Amsterdam , where he worked as the "Hop inspector" for the brewers of Amsterdam.

His works were genre pieces; merry company interiors with people drinking tea or playing cards, but also kraamkamertjes , or visits to newborn baby's. His largest work was a seven works of mercy , which Houbraken found his best work. Luke and he was highly productive as a painter of signed work; his earliest dated painting is from , and his last from His paintings from his earlier years such as the children blowing soap bubbles Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are strongly influenced by Gerrit Dou, with architectural elements framing the scene.

Later he adopted a more general genre-works style.

The project was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

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Biography, recounted concisely and exhaustively from his time as David's confidant in the s until , which fill an important gap in the hagiography.

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