Pieter Bout, who was born at Brussels in 1658, painted chiefly in conjunction with Boudewyns

Adriaen Frans Boudewyns

Adriaan Frans Boudewyns, not Anton Frans , was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.-Biography:...

 (see notice of that painter), whose landscapes he ornamented with figures, representing assemblies, merry-makings, and such like subjects. He did a like service for Van Artois

Jacques d'Arthois

Jacques d'Arthois was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes.-Biography:D'Arthois was born in Brussels. He was apprenticed to Jan Mertens on 11 January 1625 and became a master in the Brussels Guild of St. Luke in 1634...

, as for instance in a picture of 'Winter' in the Brussels Gallery

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , is one of the most famous museums in Belgium.-The museum:...

, and a Landscape in the La Caze Collection

Louis La Caze

Dr. Louis La Caze was a successful French physician and collector of paintings whose bequest of 583 paintings to the Musée du Louvre was one of the largest the museum has ever received...

 in the Louvre

Louvre

The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

. He occasionally painted pictures entirely his own composition. His death took place at Brussels not earlier than 1731. He has etched a few plates in a slight painter-like manner, as follow:

• Four Winter Scenes, with Skaters, and a variety of figures.
• Two, a Landscape, with a Statue of Neptune, and a View of the Sea-strand in Winter, with a Fishmarket.
• Two, the Bride conducted to Church, and a Country Market.