Vigor Boucquet (1619 – 1677)
• Was a Flemish painter known.
• He was born at Veurne in 1619.
• He was the son of Marcus Boucquet, a little known painter who was the city painter of Veurne.
• Vigor learned t painting craft from his father.
• He received commissions to paint altarpieces for numerous churches and monasteries in the Westhoek region of Flanders.
• He was a member of the exclusive Guild of Saint Sebastian of Veurne and of the Jansenist-inspired Brotherhood of the Crucified Savior.
• He married Maria van der Haeghen.
• He died in his native Veurne on 11 February 1677.
• His wife survived him and died on 22 May 1701.
