Pieter Bout
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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
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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
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. 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.
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