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Adriaen Brouwer

1605 - 1638

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Adriaen Brouwer (c. 1605 – January 1638) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adriaen Brouwer has received more than 174,605 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Adriaen Brouwer is the 333rd most popular painter (up from 347th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 128th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Belgian Painter.

Adriaen Brouwer is most famous for his paintings of peasants, drunkards, and other common people.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 333 out of 2,023. Before him are Ludovico Carracci, Albert Marquet, Léon Bonnat, Meindert Hobbema, Thomas Couture, and Jean-Marc Nattier. After him are Léon Bakst, Albert Edelfelt, Claude Joseph Vernet, Hendrik Goltzius, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Palma Vecchio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 8. Before him are Tianqi Emperor, Fatma Sultan, Gevherhan Sultan, Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Giacomo Carissimi, and Şehzade Mehmed. After him are Ayşe Sultan, Semyon Dezhnev, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, Thomas Browne, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Among people deceased in 1638, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 3. Before him are Cornelius Jansen, and Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg. After him are Ivan Gundulić, François Leclerc du Tremblay, Amakusa Shirō, Johannes Althusius, Cyril Lucaris, John Harvard, Cornelis van Haarlem, Peter Minuit, and Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 120 out of 1,190. Before him are Yves Chauvin (1930), Elio Di Rupo (1951), Frans Snyders (1579), Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724), Henri Vieuxtemps (1820), and Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903). After him are Paul Deschanel (1855), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Princess Louise of Belgium (1858), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), Ambiorix (-100), and Jacob Le Maire (1585).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 21. Before him are Joachim Patinir (1480), Philippe de Champaigne (1602), Félicien Rops (1833), Pieter Claesz (1596), Karel van Mander (1548), and Frans Snyders (1579). After him are Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), David Teniers the Younger (1610), Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), Jan Matsys (1509), Catharina van Hemessen (1528), and Abraham Brueghel (1631).

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