in the beginning of his career wolffort completed a number of commissioned altarpieces for churches in antwerp such as the "ascension of the virgin" and the "assumption of the virgin" (st. paul's church, antwerp, 1617). he worked, however, mainly for private patrons for whom he painted mainly religious and, to a lesser extent, mythological subjects. many of his works consist of life-size figures depicting scenes from the life of christ. he made a series of representations of the twelve apostles, the four evangelists and the church fathers, in half life-size. if the attribution to wolffort is correct, a genre painting called "" (probably 1633, m - museum leuven) shows that wolffort also created genre scenes for the market.