Flemish family of artists. Pieter [Petrus] Clouwet (b Antwerp, 9 April 1629; d Antwerp, 29 April 1670) was a pupil of Theodoor van Merlen II (1609–72) and in 1645 became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke, of which he was dean from 1666 to 1669. In 1652 he married Jacqueline Bouttats, who was related to the Antwerp engraver Gaspard-Martin Bouttats (1648–1695 or 1703); their daughter married the engraver Michiel Cabbaye (c. 1660–1722), who worked in partnership with his father-in-law. Pieter was primarily a reproductive engraver, copying the works of such artists as Nicolaes Berchem, Abraham van Diepenbeek, Anthony van Dyck, Pieter van Lint, Erasmus Quellinus and Simon de Vos. He made engravings for Anne Hermans (d 1666), the widow of the Antwerp engraver Guillaume Collaert (c. 1610–before 1666), and devotional prints for Alt Ötting, a pilgrimage site in Bavaria. He is best known for his engravings after Rubens, whether landscapes (e.g. Winter, Hollstein, no. 13; after an original painting at Windsor Castle, Berks, Royal Col.), portraits, religious subjects or allegories (e.g. the Garden of Love, Hollstein, no. 2; Rubens’s original, Madrid, Prado). Pieter Clouwet also engraved a series of Apostles represented as statues, which were based on Rubens’s example. He had a number of pupils, including Jan Frans de Ruelles ( fl 1666–50).