He was a teacher to Girolamo Muziano. As the Muziano scholar Patrizia Tosini has noted, Sustris's works, via his pupil Muziano, are a significant means by which a mid-sixteenth century Venetian interest in landscape and its role as a backdrop for historical subjects spread to Rome in the mid-to-late sixteenth century.
Sustris instructed Girolamo Muziano. According to Patrizia Tosini, a scholar of Muziano, Sustris's works played a significant role in disseminating Venetian interest in landscape as a setting for historical subjects from Venice to Rome during the mid-to-late sixteenth century.