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Carel Fabritius

1622 - 1654

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Carel Pietersz. Fabritius (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkaːrəl ˈpitərs faːˈbritsijʏs]; bapt. 27 February 1622 – 12 October 1654) was a Dutch painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carel Fabritius has received more than 605,337 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Carel Fabritius is the 249th most popular painter (down from 209th in 2019), the 99th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 75th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Dutch Painter.

Carel Fabritius is most famous for his painting "The Goldfinch," which was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

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  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Carel Fabritius ranks 249 out of 2,023. Before him are George Grosz, Gabriël Metsu, Georges Rouault, Piero di Cosimo, František Kupka, and Andrea del Castagno. After him are Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Giacomo Balla, Hubert van Eyck, Federico Barocci, Ivan Kramskoi, and Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1622, Carel Fabritius ranks 3. Before him are Molière, and Charles X Gustav of Sweden. After him are Vincenzo Viviani, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Bernhardus Varenius, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Vittoria della Rovere, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Juan de Valdés Leal, Karel Dujardin, and Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1654, Carel Fabritius ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Axel Oxenstierna, and Alessandro Algardi. After him are Emperor Go-Kōmyō, Paulus Potter, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Peter Claver, İslâm III Giray, Samuel Scheidt, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, and Jacques Lemercier.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Carel Fabritius ranks 99 out of 1,646. Before him are William IV, Prince of Orange (1711), Menno Simons (1496), Isabelle de Charrière (1740), Geert Wilders (1963), Gerard ter Borch (1617), and Gabriël Metsu (1629). After him are Joris Ivens (1898), Norbert of Xanten (1080), Leo Beenhakker (1942), Multatuli (1820), Herman Boerhaave (1668), and Jacobus Arminius (1560).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Carel Fabritius ranks 21. Before him are Petrus Christus (1410), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Lucas van Leyden (1494), Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Gerard ter Borch (1617), and Gabriël Metsu (1629). After him are Kees van Dongen (1877), Jan van Goyen (1596), Hendrick Avercamp (1585), Judith Leyster (1609), Willem de Kooning (1904), and Pieter Aertsen (1508).

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