Only a century after his death, a University of Louvain professor hailed Dieric Bouts as the "famous inventor in depicting the countryside." Born in Haarlem, Bouts worked mostly in Louvain, where he became city painter in 1468 and married a woman from a wealthy Louvain family. He eventually established a large workshop that employed his two sons. Bouts painted a range of subjects in a style charac
