Ferdinand van Apshoven the Younger studied with a famous Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger. Teniers has a painting named Peasant wedding dated 1650, by which Apshoven was inspired when creating his own painting.

 
The focus towards the life of people and their national peculiarities shifted at full pace one hundred years later after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Holland of the 17th century was a republic with protestant religion. Paintings were marketable among traders, townsfolk and affluent villagers but not among the church or royal court. Buyers wanted to see the topics closest to them – corners of familiar houses, ships from Dutch shipyards, their home land nature with humid air and grey sky. And for the first time in the history of arts artists addressed the real life of the nation at such a scale. The art of Holland tremendously impacted the creativity of Adriaen Brouwer who inspired David Teniers the Younger, teacher of Ferdinand van Apshoven the Younger. 

 
Approximately in 1657-1658 Apshoven became a member of the Guild of Artists of St. Luke in Antwerpen. He often painted genre scenes in brown-grey chord in the manner of his teacher.