Flemish painter

Antwerp 1671 - 1713 Antwerp

 

Landscape painter, especially of beach scenes populated with ships and figures. He also painted some village scenes.

 

Youngest son of the further unknown painter Lucas Smout I.

Brother of the genre scene painter Dominicus. Strangely enough Dominicus’ last name is spelled “Smouts”.

 

Lucas I had been a pupil of Artus Wolffort. He also ran a business in painting materials. Lucas I died in 1674, when our painter was only three years old. Luckily his mother lived until 1686.

 

Pupil of Hendrik van Minderhout (Rotterdam 1632 – 1696 Antwerp) in the year 1685/86. Van Minderhout was a Dutch-born marine painter, who was primarily active in Flanders. He arrived at the age of twenty in Bruges and stayed here twenty years between 1652 and 1672, when he moved to Antwerp; he worked there until his death in 1696.

 

Lucas II lived all his life in Antwerp; judging by a few views of the beach of Scheveningen, he must have visited the Dutch Republic. He remained single until his death at the age of 42. His brother Dominicus, who was also a painter, inherited his utensils, prints, drawings, etc.