About Wouter Abts
Lived 1582 – 1642 (aged 59–60). Wouter Abts was a Belgian painter.
Wouter Abts (in French, Gautier Abts) was a Flemish painter, born at Lier, near Antwerp, possibly in 1582. He was a pupil of Willem de Vos (Guillaume de Vos in French). Little is known about his life. He was admitted as a master to the Guild at Antwerp in 1604–5; and he died in 1642–43. He mainly painted genre pieces, but a winter landscape has been attributed to him. He taught Adrian de Bie and Lenaert Coomans.
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Flemish Painter
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Wouter Abts was born in 1582 in Lier.
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Wouter Abts died in 1642 in Antwerp.
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Wouter Abts was a painter.
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Wouter Abts was Belgian.
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