Frederik Bouttats the Elder

Frederik Bouttats the Elder or Frederik Bouttats (I) (Antwerp, 1590 – Antwerp, 1661) was a Flemish painter, engraver, printmaker and dealer in prints. He is known for his reproductive prints after famous painters and portraits. He was also involved in the production and sales of devotional prints. There is some confusion about the attribution of works to various artists called Frederik Bouttats. To him have been attributed some landscapes with the garden of Eden in the style of Jan Brueghel the Elder.

Life

Bouttats was born in Antwerp in 1590. He was a pupil of the painter and art dealer Matthijs Willenhoudt he is mentioned as an apprentice. He became a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp in 1612.

Work Bouttats was mainly a reproductive artist who made prints after paintings and designs of prominent painters of his time and engraved portraits. He was active as a printmaker and dealer of devotional prints.