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Arnold Houbraken

1660 - 1719

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Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arnold Houbraken has received more than 59,997 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Arnold Houbraken is the 945th most popular painter (down from 828th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 323rd in 2019) and the 83rd most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arnold Houbraken ranks 945 out of 1,421Before him are Xu Wei, Paul Gustav Fischer, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Tahir Salahov, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, and Alonso Berruguete. After him are Marco Basaiti, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Ignacio Zuloaga, Daniel Chodowiecki, Jean Hey, and Frans van Mieris the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1660, Arnold Houbraken ranks 16Before him are Johann Kuhnau, Andreas Schlüter, Johann Patkul, Rafael Casanova, Friedrich Hoffmann, and Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena. After him are Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Jakob Prandtauer, Francis Hauksbee, Jeanne Dumée, and Edward Lhuyd. Among people deceased in 1719, Arnold Houbraken ranks 14Before him are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Joseph Addison, Boris Sheremetev, Farrukhsiyar, and Arp Schnitger. After him are Carlo Cignani, Pasquier Quesnel, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Rafi ud-Darajat, and Shah Jahan II.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Arnold Houbraken ranks 383 out of 1,427Before him are Faas Wilkes (1923), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Rafael van der Vaart (1983), Anna van Egmont (1533), Frans Brüggen (1934), and Wim Ruska (1940). After him are Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), Menno van Coehoorn (1641), Hendrick de Keyser (1565), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), and Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636).

Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Arnold Houbraken ranks 83Before him are Aert van der Neer (1603), Simon de Vlieger (1601), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Maria van Oosterwijck (1630), Adriaen van der Werff (1659), and Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468). After him are Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), Thomas de Keyser (1596), Isaac van Ostade (1621), and Willem Drost (1633).