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Biography
Bouts came from the Northern Netherlands. He would seem to have been born in Haarlem, but no documentation has survived to prove this. What we do know for certain is that he worked in Louvain and that a certificate issued by that town on 12 July describes him as being of foreign origin: "nativi ex patriam".
We do not know when he was born, only that it must have been some time between and Nor do we know who his masters were, though the influence of Rogier Van der Weyden is so clearly visible that it seems likely he may have worked in Rogier's studio in Brussels.
A photograph of Dieric Bouts' fifteenth century painting, "The Entombment," depicting Christ being lowered into his tomb.
He married Katherina Van der Brugghen, the daughter of a rich Louvain family, no later than She bore him four children. The two boys, Dieric II and Albert, were later to become painters like their father. The name of Bouts is first recorded in the Louvain archives in Thenceforward, it reappears in connection both with the purchase or inheritance of property and with commissions for various paintings.
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