• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
• Gerard Hoet trained with his father and brother who were glass painters, and Warnard van Rijsen.
• in 1672 Hoet moved to The Hague, but when the Count of Salis bought paintings at his mother's house in Zaltbommel, Hoet returned to paint for him.
• Hoet accompanied the Count of Salis to Rees, Germany, where he met the Utrecht painters Jan van Bunnik, Justus Nieuwpoort and Andries de Wit.
• Hoet returned to Utrecht with De Wit, where he worked for Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein.
• He then traveled to France on the promise from a Marquis who wanted to give him a commission, but this promise falling through, he made some engravings of paintings by Francisque Millet.
• He then wanted to travel to England, but having written to his compatriot
Lucas Vorsterman, he received word that there was more work to be had in Paris.
• Hoet traveled to Paris where he spent more than a year, before returning to the Netherlands via Brussels.
• After eight months, Hoet returned to Utrecht, where he worked for William Nassau de Zuylestein, 1st Earl of Rochford.
• He married and settled in Heemstede, where he found work for the lord of the castle there.
• Together with the painter Hendrik Schoock, in 1697 he asked the Utrecht city council for permission to found a drawing academy, which was granted.
• In 1715 he returned to The Hague, where he spent the rest of his life.
• He had a business as an art dealer in collaboration with the Flemish painter Jacques Ignatius de Roore who resided in The Hague.
• He taught his sons Hendrik Jacob and Gerard, as well as Nicolaes van Ravesteyn (II).
