BOUTS, DIRK (THIERRY). - Dutch painter, born at Haarlem between 1400 and 1420, died in 1475 at Louvain.
The following works are documented: the Last Supper (in the church of St. Peter at Louvain: 1464–68), the Justice of Emperor Otto (Brussels Museum); other secure works are: the altar of St. Erasmus (in St. Peter’s at Louvain, 1448), the shutters of the Judgment (Paris-Lille, ca. 1470), and other paintings in the Prado Museum and at Granada. Other works, such as the Madonna in the Correr Museum in Venice and that in the Carrand collection in Florence, are debated among the numerous works of B.’s school. The most significant and characteristically Dutch element of his painting is an extremely sensitive use of colour, whereas in drawing he shows the van der Weyden (v.). B. was also famous as a portrait painter.