He was born in Rotterdam as the son of Adriaen Bellevois from Ghent. It is not known with whom he studied. He married on 2 August 1643 in Rotterdam to Cornelia Uithoeks (1623-1652), daughter of a Rotterdam painter. His first wife died in 1631. He remarried in Rotterdam on 3 September 1656 to Maria 't Hert. He stayed in Rotterdam until at least 1663. He was in Gouda from 1661 to 1666, then in Hamburg in 1673 to flee the invading French armies. He was a seascape painter in Hamburg and met Johannes Voorhout while he was there. He returned to Rotterdam in 1675 where he lived on the Breestraat. When he died, he left a large estate.