• Was a Liège Baroque painter.
• The son of a glass painter.
• He was instructed in his art by Henri Trippet and Gerard Douffet successively.
• He visited Rome in 1638, and was invited by the Duke of Tuscany to Florence and employed in decorating one of his galleries.
• Thence he moved to Paris where he carried out some elaborate decorative work at Versailles.
• He returned to Liège in 1647 and executed many paintings for the churches of his native town.
• In 1670 he was invited to return to Paris, and painted the ceiling of the audience room in the Tuileries. Louis XIV made him a professor of the Royal Academy of Paris.
• Towards the close of his life he returned to Liège and was elected a lay canon of the church of St. Paul.
• A few years before he died he reportedly fell into a state of profound melancholy and had to be placed under the care of a medical man, in whose house he died.
