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Dieric Bouts the Younger, also Dirk Bouts the Younger, (1448 – May 2, 1491) was a Flemish painter who was mainly active in Leuven. He is known for his altarpieces painted in the Early Netherlandish painting style.
One of his weddings was in Leuven about 1447. His two daughters went to convents, and his two sons became painters who carried the Bouts workshop into the mid-16th century. Little is known of the elder son, Dieric the Younger, although he appears to have continued in his father's style until his early death in 1491.
According to Carel van Mander, Dirck (Dieric or Thierry) Bouts was born in Haarlem. The date of birth is not known, though circumstantial evidence points to the time between 1415 and 1420. Bouts moved from Haarlem to Louvain and there married a well-to-do citizen, Katharina van der Brugghen; the marriage probably took place by 1447 or 1448, but ...
Nothing is known for certain by Dieric the Younger, but a fine altarpiece known as the Pearl of Brabant (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) has been attributed to him, as well as to his father. Friendly format for printing and bookmarking. Looking for high-resolution image files. Donations for maintaining and developing the Gallery are welcome.
Virgin and Child. Workshop of Dieric Bouts Netherlandish. 1475–99. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 537. This is the finest surviving example by a workshop assistant of Dieric Bouts, based on a lost composition by the master himself.
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Feb 21, 2024 · Person. Only a century after his death, a University of Louvain professor hailed Dieric Bouts as the "famous inventor in depicting the countryside." Born in Haarlem, Bouts worked mostly in Louvain, where he became city painter in 1468 and married a woman from a wealthy Louvain family. He eventually established a large workshop that employed his ...
The Pearl of Brabant c. 1470 Oil on wood, 61 x 113 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich: The Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi, is a small-scale work traditionally known as The Pearl of Brabant on account of its extraordinary beauty. It had for centuries been attributed to Dieric Bouts the Younger.
