Wouter Abts, was born, it is said, at Lier, near Antwerp, in 1582. He was admitted as a master to the Guild at Antwerp in 1604-5; and he died in 1642-43. He excelled in painting conversation-pieces and landscapes. Adrian de Bie was one of his pupils. (See notice by Van Lerius in Meyer's ' Kiinstler-Lexikon.)
This article incorporates text from the article "ABTS, Wouter" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.