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(2) Albrecht [Aelbrecht; Albert] Bouts
(b Leuven, c. 1452–5; d 1549). Son of (1) Dieric Bouts I. Three works carry his monogram. The major piece is a triptych with the Assumption of the Virgin (Brussels, Mus. A. Anc.), a work mentioned by the chronicler Molanus in his unfinished history of Leuven (c. 1575) as in a chapel of the Virgin in St Peter’s, Leuven. A man and woman kneeling in the right wing have been considered portraits of Albrecht Bouts and his second wife, Lisabeth Nausnyders, since an angel hovering above them holds a coat of arms with the insignia of the painters’ guild, two crossed arrows and the letter A (?Albrecht). Two panels depicting the Annunciation (Munich, Alte Pin.; replica, Stockholm, Nmus.) have similar armorials.
Part of the Bouts family
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