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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 67,521 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

Among painters, Frans Post ranks 1,023 out of 1,421Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Frans Post ranks 18Before 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 28Before 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.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Frans Post ranks 425 out of 1,427Before 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).

Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Frans Post ranks 98Before 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).