 He was influenced by the work of other still-life painters, including the "breakfast" pieces ("ontbijtjes") of Willem Claesz Heda and the "pronkstillevens" or large sumptuous still lifes of Frans Snyders.His bouquets of flowers in glass vases are in the manner of Daniel Seghers and Jan Philip van Thielen while his compositions with porcelain bowls of fruit are indebted to the pioneers of this genre, Osias Beert and Jacob van Hulsdonck.Frans Ykens painted multiple devotional garland paintings.