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Balthasar van der Ast

1593 - 1657

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Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg, 1593/94 – Delft, 7 March 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit, as well as painting a number of remarkable shell still lifes; he is considered to be a pioneer in the genre of shell painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balthasar van der Ast has received more than 76,331 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Balthasar van der Ast is the 632nd most popular painter (down from 604th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 234th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Balthasar van der Ast ranks 632 out of 1,421. Before him are Cornelis van Haarlem, Mattia Preti, Charles Gleyre, Oswald Achenbach, Paolo Veneziano, and Julio González. After him are Wenceslaus Hollar, Tadeusz Kantor, Altichiero, Louis Anquetin, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, and Jules Dupré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1593, Balthasar van der Ast ranks 9. Before him are Jacob Jordaens, Mumtaz Mahal, Toyotomi Hideyori, Matthäus Merian, George I Rákóczi, and Nicolaes Tulp. After him are Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Anthony van Diemen, George Herbert, William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Jean de Brébeuf, and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Among people deceased in 1657, Balthasar van der Ast ranks 10. Before him are Frans Snyders, Clara Peeters, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Kâtip Çelebi, Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, and Laura Mancini. After him are Jacob van Campen, Andrew Bobola, Robert Blake, Menasseh Ben Israel, Hayashi Razan, and Olimpia Maidalchini.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Balthasar van der Ast ranks 256 out of 1,427. Before him are Pieter van der Aa (1659), Willem Blaeu (1571), Geert Groote (1340), Cornelis van Haarlem (1562), Dick Bruna (1927), and Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576). After him are Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597), William I, Count of Hainaut (1287), Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1622), Constantijn Huygens (1596), Anthony van Diemen (1593), and Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1768).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Balthasar van der Ast ranks 60. Before him are Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (1627), Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613), Otto van Veen (1556), Pieter van Laer (1599), Adriaen van de Velde (1636), and Cornelis van Haarlem (1562). After him are Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597), Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1622), Jozef Israëls (1824), Emanuel de Witte (1617), Hercules Seghers (1589), and Aert de Gelder (1645).

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