他的早期生活的所知甚少。在他的三卷本Schouburg,阿诺德Houbraken提到他在第一卷的恳求读者写信给他更多新闻Breenbergh的传记。 他被告知Breenberg出生在乌得勒支,大师Cornelis van Poelenburgh,他知道那是不可能的事实,他已经有了,即“Poelenburg诞生的1586年和1660年Breenberg的死亡。” Houbraken从来没有收到他的信息请求,但他再次提到Breenbergh在列表的第二卷59主管画家是同时代的人亚伯拉罕Bloemaert和保卢斯波特 

据荷兰艺术史研究所(RKD),Breenbergh出生在荷兰的小镇代芬特尔,但1607年死后,他的父亲和其他家人搬走了,可能Hoorn。他是同时代的雅克Waben甚至收到了他的第一次训练,尽管他的第一个老师现在应该“的许多被遗忘的阿姆斯特丹风景画家的1610年代”。 他注册的教师Pieter Lastman和雅各Symonsz Pynas. 

Breenbergh首次注册为画家在1619年的一个档案记录阿姆斯特丹早些时候,尽管他可能成立。

同年他离开罗马。 他在那里生活和工作的佛兰德画家Frans van de Kasteele^[4][5]并深受另一个弗莱明居民景观画家保罗成Bril。从1623年开始,然而,他的意大利风景的有点老Cornelis van Poelenburgh的作品——实际上,Breenbergh和van Poelenburgh有时难以区分。他也影响尼古拉斯Moeyaert. Breenbergh在他把法国风景画家的影响克劳德Lorrain(抵达这个城市大约1620)。大约在1620年Breenbergh成为罗马社会的创始人之一的荷兰和佛兰德的画家Bentvueghels,其中他绰号“het烦恼”(雪貂)。 

1630年Breenbergh回到阿姆斯特丹。1633年,他结婚了,并得到了60磅的年度工资国王的法院查理一世的英国。 他依然在阿姆斯特丹,直至他生命的终点,他受欢迎的意大利油画和铜版画的建筑。^[3]他站在那里受到的影响Rembrandtists如Pieter Lastman和尼古拉斯Moeyaert,但是他把他们的圣经和神话场景在意大利的风景。

他唯一的注册学生Jan de Bisschop在1640年代,他的学生到1648年。 他影响了画家Jan Linsen,Scipione Compagno,劳伦斯Barata,查尔斯Cornelisz。de烈酒,Pieter Anthonisz。范Groenewegen,弗朗索瓦•范Knibbergen,Catharina van Knibbergen 

Little is known of his early life. In his three-volume Schouburg, Arnold Houbrakenmentioned him in his first volume with an entreaty to readers to write to him with more news of Breenbergh's biography.^[1] He had been told that Breenberg was born in Utrecht and had been a master of Cornelis van Poelenburgh, which he knew to be impossible from the facts that he already had, namely "the birth of Poelenburg in 1586 and the death of Breenberg in 1660."^[1] Houbraken never received the information he requested, though he mentioned Breenbergh again in his second volume in a list of 59 competent painters who were contemporaries of Abraham Bloemaert and Paulus Potter. 

Äccording to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), Breenbergh was born in the Netherlands town of Deventer, but after the death of his father in 1607 moved away with the rest of his family, probably to Hoorn. There he was a contemporary of Jacques Waben and possibly received his first training, though his first teacher is now supposed to be "one of those many forgotten Amsterdam landscape painters of the 1610s".^[3] His registered teachers are Pieter Lastmanand Jacob Symonsz Pynas. 

Breenbergh is first registered as a painter on an archival record in 1619 in Amsterdam, though he possibly was established there earlier.

In the same year he left for Rome.  There he lived and worked with the Flemish painter Frans van de Kasteele^[4][5] and was heavily influenced by another Fleming resident, the landscape painter Paul Bril. From 1623, however, he came under the spell of Italian landscapes by the somewhat older Cornelis van Poelenburgh—indeed, the works of Breenbergh and van Poelenburgh are sometimes difficult to tell apart. He was also influenced by Nicolaes Moeyaert.^[3] Breenbergh in his turn influenced the French landscape-painter Claude Lorrain (who arrived in the city about 1620). In about 1620 Breenbergh became one of the founders of the Roman society of Dutch and Flemish painters, the Bentvueghels, among whom he was nicknamed "het fret" (the ferret). 

In 1630 Breenbergh returned to Amsterdam. In 1633 he married, and received a yearly wage of 60 pounds from the court of king Charles I of Britain. He remained in Amsterdam until his death, where he made popular paintings and etchings of Italian buildings. There he was influenced by the pre-Rembrandtists such as Pieter Lastman and Nicolaes Moeyaert, but he placed their Biblical and mythological scenes in Italian landscapes.

His only registered pupil is Jan de Bisschop, who was his pupil in the 1640s until 1648.  He influenced the painters Jan Linsen, Scipione Compagno, Laurens Barata, Charles Cornelisz. de Hooch, Pieter Anthonisz. van Groenewegen, Francois van Knibbergen, and Catharina van Knibbergen.