Wouter Abts

{{Short description|Flemish painter}}

Wouter Abts (in French, Gautier Abts) was a Flemish painter, born at Lier, near Antwerp, possibly in 1582.{{cite book|last1=Meyer|first1=Julius|title=Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, Vol 1|date=1872|publisher=W. Engelmann|pages=35–36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jb0FAAAAQAAJ&q=Wouter+Abts&pg=PA35}} He was a pupil of Willem de Vos (Guillaume de Vos in French).{{cite web|title=Wouter Abts, alias: Gautier Abs / Aps / Apts|url=http://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/432|website=Ecartico|publisher=University of Amsterdam|access-date=24 June 2015}} Little is known about his life.{{cite web|last1=Kramm|first1=Christiann|title=De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters, van den vroegsten tot op onzen tijd|url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kram011leve01_01/kram011leve01_01_0004.php|website=DBNL|access-date=17 June 2015}} 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.{{cite web|title=Wouter Abts|url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/310979|website=RDK Netherlands Institute for Art History|access-date=24 June 2015}} He taught Adrian de Bie and Lenaert Coomans.Bryan,1886-9