Lodewijk Toeput (ca. 1550–1603)

• Called Pozzoserrato was a Flemish landscape painter and draftsman active in Italy.
• The biographer Karel van Mander who claimed to have met Toeput in Venice, placed Toeput's birthplace in Mechelen.
• In Antwerp he is believed to have studied with Maerten de Vos.
•It is believed the artist arrived around 1573–74 in Venice.
• According to Carlo Ridolfi's Le maraviglie dell'Arte, Toeput worked in the studio of Tintoretto.
• On the basis of drawings of ancient Roman churches that at the beginning of the 1580s Toeput stayed in this city.
• He then probably resided in Venice but was documented in February 1582 in Treviso.
• Despite his residence in Treviso, Toeput kept in touch with Venice where he met with artistic personalities such as Jacopo Bassano, Hans von Aachen, members of the Sadeler family, Otto van Veen and Pieter de Jode I.
• The artist married Laudamia Aproino in 1601 in Treviso.
• In Italy, the painter was known as Ludovico Pozzoserrato.
• After he established his residence in Treviso, the artist referred to himself as Lodovico Pozzo da Trevigi.
• He died in Treviso.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Hans of Aachen, The painter Lodewijk Toeput, around 1585-1587.
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