His father was active primarily as a designer of stained-glass windows and engravings, an architect, and, to a lesser extent, a painter.The commission to paint the substituted panels did finally not go to van Noort but to Maerten de Vos.[3] Adam's present-day fame largely rests on the fact that he was the teacher of two of the leading Flemish Baroque painters, Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens.[4] He collaborated with Marten de Vos and Ambrosius Francken on the decorations for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Ernest of Austria in 1594.[5] Later, with the arrival in his workshop and under the influence of Jacob Jordaens, he adopted some of the dynamism and monumentality of the Baroque into his work.