According to the RKD he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in the Hague from 1681–1682 and travelled on 1682 to London where he stayed until 1702.[3] He settled in the Hague in 1702, and remained there until his death.[3]
It is believed that Paling was married to an artist, only referred to as Mrs Pawling, who was a late 17th-century pastel portraitist.[4]