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Hendrick Avercamp

1585 - 1634

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Hendrick Avercamp (January 27, 1585 (bapt.) – May 15, 1634 (buried)) was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age of painting. He was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter. His paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted images of the people in the landscape. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hendrick Avercamp has received more than 188,163 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Hendrick Avercamp is the 273rd most popular painter (down from 263rd in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 94th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Dutch Painter.

Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter who is most famous for his winter landscapes.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hendrick Avercamp ranks 273 out of 2,023. Before him are Guercino, Jan van Goyen, Alessandro Allori, Pietro Lorenzetti, Martin Schongauer, and Zeuxis. After him are Jan Brueghel the Younger, Baldassare Peruzzi, Gerda Wegener, Joachim Patinir, Paul Delaroche, and Judith Leyster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Hendrick Avercamp ranks 4. Before him are Cardinal Richelieu, Heinrich Schütz, and Cornelius Jansen. After him are John George I, Elector of Saxony, Uriel da Costa, Anna of Tyrol, Jacob Le Maire, Lucilio Vanini, Zacharias Janssen, John Rolfe, and Jacques Lemercier. Among people deceased in 1634, Hendrick Avercamp ranks 2. Before him is Albrecht von Wallenstein. After him are Ligdan Khan, Adriano Banchieri, Maria Celeste, Urbain Grandier, John Albert Vasa, Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Magdalene of Nagasaki, John Webster, António de Andrade, and Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrick Avercamp ranks 111 out of 1,646. Before him are Jacobus Arminius (1560), Kees van Dongen (1877), Marinus van der Lubbe (1909), Jan van Goyen (1596), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562), and William II of Holland (1228). After him are Edwin van der Sar (1970), Mark Rutte (1967), Jan Jongbloed (1940), Judith Leyster (1609), Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), and Willem Schouten (1567).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Hendrick Avercamp ranks 24. Before him are Gerard van Honthorst (1592), Gerard ter Borch (1617), Gabriël Metsu (1629), Carel Fabritius (1622), Kees van Dongen (1877), and Jan van Goyen (1596). After him are Judith Leyster (1609), Willem de Kooning (1904), Pieter Aertsen (1508), Adriaen van Ostade (1610), Paulus Potter (1625), and George Hendrik Breitner (1857).

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