pupil of Adriaen van der Burg and glass etcher F. Greenwood ; Drawing Academy in The Hague
Netherlands
George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) ; Vogel Boeck ; Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) & Arnout Vosmaer (1720-1799): Regnum animale (1767-87) ; Johann Christian Daniel Schreber (1739-1810) ; Johann Andreas Wagner (1797-1861) ;
Stadholder Willem V ; Drawing Academy The Hague (as director, dean, and regent) ; founder of Brotherhood of St. Luke ;