Gerard Bouttats
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Gerard Bouttats or Gerhardt Bouttats[1] (Antwerp, circa 1630 – probably Vienna after 1668) was a Flemish, draughtsman engraver and printmaker, known for his prints of portraits, allegories, and devotional works.[2] He trained in his native Antwerp in the workshop of his father. He later worked for a while in Cologne and later moved to Vienna where he worked for the remainder of his short life.[3]
Gerard Bouttats was born in Antwerp around 1630 as the son of the prominent engraver and print publisher Frederik Bouttats the Elder and Maria de Weerdt.[4] He was a half-brother of Frederik the Younger and brother of Gaspar, Jacob and possibly Philibert the Elder who all became printmakers.[2][5][6][7] There is no record of Jacob being registered as a pupil or master at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.[8] This confirms that the first trained and then worked in his father's workshop.[2]
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He left Antwerp and is recorded in Cologne in the period 1650–1651. He is known to have made various portrait engravings of prominent personalities in that city.[9] He also made engravings after the designs of the local artist Johann Toussyn.[10] He is recorded next in Vienna where he was employed as an engraver for the local university.[11] He reportedly engraved portraits of doctors of the university, including one of Adam Munds.[9]
He married Eva Rosina Jenet, widow of the engraver Sebastian Jenet, on 2 May 1655. The couple had four daughters. After his first wife died in 1664, Bouttats married Caecilia Renata Stadler on 18 May 1665. In Vienna he worked on various publication projects often in cooperation with other artists and publishers from Flanders and the Dutch Republic.[3] He also did some work for the imperial court including making an engraved calendar and an engraving representing one of the battles of the war with the Turks of 1663–64.[12]
He was possibly the father of J. Bouttats, an artist who worked in Bohemia around 1700.[3]
The place and time of his death are not recorded but it was likely in Vienna around 1668 as no information regarding Bouttats is recorded after that date.[3]
