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Gerard de Lairesse

1640 - 1711

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Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ də lɛʁɛs]; 11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and French classicist painters such as Charles le Brun, Simon Vouet and authors such as Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerard de Lairesse has received more than 167,332 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gerard de Lairesse is the 1,255th most popular painter (down from 1,045th in 2019), the 438th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 383rd in 2019) and the 77th most popular Belgian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gerard de Lairesse ranks 1,255 out of 1,421Before him are George Catlin, Agnes Martin, Antonio Berni, Edward Robert Hughes, Paul César Helleu, and Apollinary Vasnetsov. After him are Joseph Duplessis, Wojciech Gerson, Karin Bergöö Larsson, Pavel Filonov, Milena Pavlović-Barili, and Fanny Brate.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, Gerard de Lairesse ranks 20Before him are Mariana Alcoforado, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Willem de Vlamingh, Georg Mohr, Jacques Ozanam, and Claude Fleury. After him are Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, John Mayow, Yohannes I, and William Wycherley. Among people deceased in 1711, Gerard de Lairesse ranks 14Before him are Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Vladimir Atlasov, Joseph Vaz, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, Eusebio Kino, and Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Gerard de Lairesse ranks 438 out of 1,019Before him are Katherine Swynford (1350), Herman Van Springel (1943), Briek Schotte (1919), Edouard Van Beneden (1846), Tony Parker (1982), and Simon Bening (1483). After him are Victor Boin (1886), Sœur Emmanuelle (1908), Kevin De Bruyne (1991), Axel Witsel (1989), Henry Carton de Wiart (1869), and Solange Berry (1932).

Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Gerard de Lairesse ranks 77Before him are Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), Justus Sustermans (1597), Eugène Boch (1855), Gustaaf Wappers (1803), Michiel Sweerts (1618), and Simon Bening (1483). After him are Constant Permeke (1886), Hieronymus Cock (1518), Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626), Adam van Noort (1562), Jan Fabre (1958), and Jacques d'Arthois (1613).