 In 1620 , Pieter married Cornelia Jacot , also a child of Antwerp émigrés , who was to bear four of his children — Laurens ( born around 1622 ) , Pieter ( 1624 ) and the twins Anna Cornelia and Elisabeth ( 1626 ) . In 1626 he entered service with the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) and was seen as one of their rising stars . 
