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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 161,788 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Adriaen Brouwer is the 348th most popular painter (down from 322nd in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 116th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Belgian Painter.

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

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 348 out of 1,421. Before him are Yves Tanguy, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, Eva Gonzalès, Federico Barocci, and Maarten van Heemskerck. After him are Nicolai Abildgaard, Giuseppe Castiglione, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Lovis Corinth, Koloman Moser, and Vasily Perov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 8. Before him are Tianqi Emperor, Fatma Sultan, Gevherhan Sultan, Şehzade Mehmed, Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, and Giacomo Carissimi. After him are Ayşe Sultan, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, Semyon Dezhnev, George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Thomas Browne, and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Among people deceased in 1638, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 7. Before him are Cornelius Jansen, John Harvard, Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, François Leclerc du Tremblay, Ivan Gundulić, and Johannes Althusius. After him are Cyril Lucaris, Amakusa Shirō, Peter Minuit, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Willem Blaeu, and Cornelis van Haarlem.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 128 out of 1,019. Before him are Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876), Ermengarde of Hesbaye (778), Morris (1923), Marguerite Porete (1250), Auguste Perret (1874), and Luce Irigaray (1930). After him are Pierre Louÿs (1870), Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903), David Teniers the Younger (1610), Joseph Plateau (1801), André Grétry (1741), and Petrus Plancius (1552).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 22. Before him are Philippe de Champaigne (1602), Félicien Rops (1833), Joachim Patinir (1480), Paul Delvaux (1897), Frans Snyders (1579), and Karel van Mander (1548). After him are David Teniers the Younger (1610), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Fernand Khnopff (1858), Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), Bernard van Orley (1487), and Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759).

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