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 f…