1612 - 1680
Frans Janszoon Post (17 November 1612 – 17 February 1680) was a painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas, during and after the period of Dutch Brazil. In 1636 he traveled to Dutch Brazil in northeast of South America at the invitation of the governor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frans Post has received more than 68,182 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Frans Post is the 1,023rd most popular painter (down from 927th in 2019), the 425th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 368th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Dutch Painter.
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Among painters, Frans Post ranks 1,023 out of 1,421. Before him are Peter Lely, Isaac Israëls, Édouard Detaille, Boris Vallejo, Antonio Ciseri, and Beatrice Wood. After him are Ellsworth Kelly, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Barbara Hepworth, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Caesar van Everdingen, and Francesco Furini.
1618 - 1680
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 1,017
1865 - 1934
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 1,018
1848 - 1912
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 1,019
1941 - Present
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 1,020
1821 - 1891
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 1,021
1893 - 1998
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 1,022
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 1,023
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 1,024
1803 - 1860
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 1,025
1903 - 1975
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 1,026
1836 - 1885
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 1,027
1616 - 1678
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 1,028
1603 - 1646
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 1,029
Among people born in 1612, Frans Post ranks 18. Before him are Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Margherita de' Medici, Janusz Radziwiłł, Louis, Duke of Vendôme, Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and John Albert Vasa. After him are August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Thomas Fairfax, Anne Bradstreet, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, and Richard Crashaw. Among people deceased in 1680, Frans Post ranks 28. Before him are Joachim Neander, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, and Peter Lely. After him are Kateri Tekakwitha, Marco Uccellini, Symeon of Polotsk, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, and Yun Hyu.
1612 - 1648
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 12
1612 - 1679
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 13
1612 - 1655
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 14
1612 - 1669
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 15
1612 - 1687
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 16
1612 - 1634
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 17
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 18
1612 - 1675
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 19
1612 - 1640
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 20
1612 - 1671
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 21
1612 - 1672
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 22
1612 - 1653
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 23
1612 - 1649
HPI: 39.14
Rank: 24
1650 - 1680
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 22
1620 - 1680
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 23
1619 - 1680
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 24
1647 - 1680
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 25
1614 - 1680
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 26
1618 - 1680
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 27
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 28
1656 - 1680
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 29
1603 - 1680
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 30
1629 - 1680
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 31
1609 - 1680
HPI: 52.03
Rank: 32
1630 - 1680
HPI: 49.49
Rank: 33
1617 - 1680
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 34
Among people born in Netherlands, Frans Post ranks 425 out of 1,427. Before him are Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634), Anthon van Rappard (1858), Tom Okker (1944), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Isaac Israëls (1865), and Adriaan Blaauw (1914). After him are Caesar van Everdingen (1616), Rudi Carrell (1934), Jan Akkerman (1946), Jacob van Eyck (1590), Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1928), and Macropedius (1487).
1634 - 1696
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 419
1858 - 1892
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 420
1944 - Present
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 421
1621 - 1674
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 422
1865 - 1934
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 423
1914 - 2010
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 424
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 425
1616 - 1678
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 426
1934 - 2006
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 427
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 428
1590 - 1657
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 429
1928 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 430
1487 - 1558
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 431
Among painters born in Netherlands, Frans Post ranks 98. Before him are Adriaen van de Venne (1589), Caspar van Wittel (1653), Leonaert Bramer (1596), Anthon van Rappard (1858), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), and Isaac Israëls (1865). After him are Caesar van Everdingen (1616), Pieter Pourbus (1523), Dirck Hals (1591), Allaert van Everdingen (1621), Philip de Koninck (1619), and Gerrit Berckheyde (1638).
1589 - 1662
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 92
1653 - 1736
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 93
1596 - 1674
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 94
1858 - 1892
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 95
1621 - 1674
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 96
1865 - 1934
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 97
1612 - 1680
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 98
1616 - 1678
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 99
1523 - 1584
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 100
1591 - 1656
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 101
1621 - 1675
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 102
1619 - 1688
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 103
1638 - 1698
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 104