De Vlieger出生于鹿特丹，1634移居代尔夫特，在那里他加入了圣路协会，和1638在阿姆斯特丹，虽然他保持直到1650在鹿特丹的房子时，他搬到了魏斯，在阿姆斯特丹郊区的一个小镇。在17世纪30年代和年代的一年，他在荷兰一家著名的海洋画家。他离开了黑白风格的Jane porcellis（Willem van de Velde，老人走向一个更现实的色彩，有非常详细和准确的陈述的操纵和船舶建造。他画的船只以及海上风暴和沉船。

除了绘画，他设计的挂毯，打印，彩色玻璃窗在阿姆斯特丹的新教堂，和器官laurenskerk屏幕ST鹿特丹。

他的学生包括（Willem van de Velde年轻，Adriaen Van de Velde，Jan van de卡珀尔恩）。Jan van der卡普勒实际上有9个原De Vlieger的画，超过1300印。当de Vleiger在1653去世了，还有许多未完成的作品，但依然美丽。其中，一个渔夫Jan van der从卡佩海岸六乔安娜van der Stel，西蒙的妻子，后来运到好望角，这是在大康斯坦夏葡萄酒庄园展出，van der Stel家。他的工作是对年轻一代的海上画家产生重大影响.。

  De Vlieger was born in Rotterdam, moved to Delft in 1634, where he joined the association of Saint Luke, and 1638 in Amsterdam, although he maintained a house in Rotterdam until 1650 when he moved to Weiss, a small town in the suburb of Amsterdam. In 1630s and in the year of 1640s, he was a famous Holland marine painter. He left the monochrome style Jane porcellis and (Willem Van de Velde, the elder towards a more realistic color, there are very detailed and accurate statement of the rigging and ship construction. He painted ships and ships at sea as well as storms and shipwrecks.

In addition to painting, he designed tapestries, prints, colored glass Windows the new church in Amsterdam, and the organ screen St Laurenskerk in Rotterdam.

His students include (Willem Van de Velde young, Adriaen Van de Velde, and Jan Van de Kappeler). Jan van der Kappeler actually has 9 original De Vlieger paintings, more than 1300 prints. When de Vleiger died in 1653, there were many unfinished works, but still beautiful. Among them, a fisherman cast by Jan van der off the coast of Capet to Joanna Six van der Stel, Simon's wife, and later transported to Cape of Good Hope, which is displayed in the Groot Constantia, the van der Stel home. His job is to be a great influence on the younger generation of painters on the sea.