 He spent his active career in Antwerp where he seems to have enjoyed a high reputation.This is confirmed by the fact that Anthony van Dyck painted his "" in "grisaille" and an freely cut after this portrait by Pieter de Jode II was included in van Dyck's "Iconography" (Icones Principum Virorum), a collection of portraits of leading personalities of van Dyck's time.Below his portrait de Coster is described as a "Pictor Noctium" i.e.