Frederik Bouttats the Elder

[2] To him have been attributed some landscapes with the garden of Eden in the style of Jan Brueghel the Elder.

[2] He married Machteld (Mathilde) van de Wouwere, with whom he had one child, Frederik, who followed in his father's footsteps.

[2] His pupils were his sons Frederik, Jaeckes vander Vloet, Joris Herteborst and Frederick Hendrick van den Hove.

[3] Bouttats was mainly a reproductive artist who made prints after paintings and designs of prominent painters of his time and engraved portraits.

[2] As a painter he seems to have mainly created copies or works in the style of Jan Brueghel the Elder.