 In Antwerp Seghers was successful as a painter and art dealer and was able to afford a house on the fashionable Meir.He was patronized by many monastic orders, including the Jesuits, who commissioned altarpieces from him.He was employed by the city authorities of both Antwerp and Ghent as one of the many artists working on the festive decorations for the Joyous Entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, the new governor of the Southern Netherlands, in 1635.