A Legacy Carved in Pigment Born into a lineage of painters in Leuven, Dieric Bouts the Younger entered a world where the brush was a family inheritance. He was shaped by the hand of his father, Dieric Bouts the Elder, and grew up alongside his brother, Aelbrecht Bouts. This upbringing was not merely a matter of education but a total immersion in the craft. By 1475, the weight of the family workshop passed to him when he inherited his father's shop. He moved through the city archives of Leuven as a recognized pictor ymaginum, a title that spoke to his standing in the local guild and the civic…