Lodewijk Toeput

Lodewijk Toeput, or il Pozzoserrato (ca.1550, Antwerp – 1605, Treviso), was a Mannerist landscape painter active in Italy.

Biography

According to Karel van Mander who listed him as one of two painters from Northern Europe who he met in Venice, he was a good poet (rederijker) as well as a painter, who he thought came from Mechelen.^[1] Van Mander listed him with Dirck de Vries, a painter of kitchen pieces and fruit markets from Friesland.^[1] According to the RKD he was from Antwerp and spent most of his life in Treviso, Italy.^[2] He painted several historical allegories from the Bible and mythological themes from Metamorphoses.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b (Dutch) Lodewijck Toeput in Karel van Mander's Schilderboeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
^ ^a ^b Lodewijk Toeput in the RKD

Persondata
Name	Toeput, Lodewijk
Alternative names	il Pozzoserrato
Short description	painter
Date of birth	c. 1550
Place of birth	Antwerp
Date of death	1605
Place of death	Treviso