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Frans Post

1612 - 1680

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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 72,587 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Frans Post is the 1,099th most popular painter (down from 1,022nd in 2019), the 460th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 424th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Dutch Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Frans Post ranks 1,099 out of 2,023. Before him are Zhang Daqian, Hans Rottenhammer, Giovanni Battista Crespi, Jeff Wall, Luis Egidio Meléndez, and Vicente Juan Masip. After him are Marie-Denise Villers, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Laurits Tuxen, Jean Jouvenet, Zdeněk Burian, and Antonio Tempesta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Frans Post ranks 19. Before him are Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, Janusz Radziwiłł, Margherita de' Medici, Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Louis, Duke of Vendôme, and John Albert Vasa. After him are Thomas Fairfax, August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Pier Francesco Mola, Anne Bradstreet, and Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn. Among people deceased in 1680, Frans Post ranks 28. Before him are Li Yu, Peter Lely, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, Joachim Neander, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, and Kateri Tekakwitha. After him are Symeon of Polotsk, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Marco Uccellini, Yun Hyu, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Frans Post ranks 460 out of 1,646. Before him are Eduard van Beinum (1900), Frans Brüggen (1934), Rie Mastenbroek (1919), Salomon de Bray (1597), Gijs van Lennep (1942), and James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649). After him are Wim Rijsbergen (1952), Macropedius (1487), Jaap Eden (1873), Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1928), Carel Godin de Beaufort (1934), and Rudi Carrell (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Frans Post ranks 102. Before him are Matthias Stom (1600), Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), Adriaen van der Werff (1659), Jan Miense Molenaer (1610), Thomas de Keyser (1596), and Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831). After him are Anthon van Rappard (1858), Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1566), Gerrit Berckheyde (1638), Cornelis Ketel (1548), Isaac van Ostade (1621), and Caesar van Everdingen (1616).

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