• Houbraken mentioned him as a Rome traveller with the bentname Ordenantie in his biographical sketch of Pieter de Molyn, who he knew in Rome.
• According to the
RKD he was one of ten children of the landscape painter Frederik de Moucheron and Maria Magdalena de Jouderville, the daughter of the
Rembrandt pupil Isaac de Jouderville.
• His father taught him to paint and then he travelled to Italy for two years.