äccording to the netherlands institute for art history (rkd), breenbergh was born in the netherlands town of deventer, but after the death of his father in 1607 moved away with the rest of his family, probably to hoorn. there he was a contemporary of jacques waben and possibly received his first training, though his first teacher is now supposed to be "one of those many forgotten amsterdam landscape painters of the 1610s". his registered teachers are pieter lastman and jacob symonsz pynas.