Dieric Bouts
Pioneer of single vanishing point perspective
Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter. Bouts may have studied under Rogier van der Weyden, and his work was influenced by van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck. He worked in Leuven from 1457 (or possibly earlier) until his death in 1475. Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point (as illustrated in his Last Supper). Bouts was married twice and had four children. 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. The younger brother, Aelbrecht (or Albert), did likewise, but in a style that is unmistakably his own. His distinctive work propelled Boutsian imagery into the 16th century.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Rogier van der Weyden Master
- Hugo van der Goes Student
- Master of the St. Lucy Legend Student
Fellow student
Influenced by
Parent child
- Dieric the Younger Child
Artworks by this artist
- Virgin and Child 1454 - 1554
- Head of Christ
- Head in profile
- Madonna 1470-1500
- Virgin and Child ca. 1455-60
- Madonna and Child c. 1465
- The Annunciation about 1450-1455
- Saint John the Baptist c. 1475-1485
- Madonna 1470-1500
- Portrait of a Man ca. 1470
- Studienblatt; Drei Apostelköpfe