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Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

1562 - 1640

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Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (c.1562 – February 4, 1640 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter credited with being the founder of Dutch marine art or seascape painting. Beginning with the "birds-eye" viewpoint of earlier Netherlandish marine art, his later works show a view from lower down, and more realistic depiction of the seas themselves. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom has received more than 57,913 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom is the 1,405th most popular painter, the 581st most popular biography from Netherlands and the 132nd most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom ranks 1,405 out of 2,023. Before him are Óscar Domínguez, Karl Hofer, Igor Grabar, Jan Mostaert, Katsukawa Shunshō, and Mårten Eskil Winge. After him are Vicente López Portaña, Pál Szinyei Merse, Federico Zandomeneghi, Sigrid Hjertén, Jan Boeckhorst, and Józef Mehoffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1562, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom ranks 16. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Ottavio Rinuccini, Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Isabella Andreini, John Bull, and Adam van Noort. After him are Bento de Góis, James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg, Francis Godwin, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, George Abbot, and Samuel Daniel. Among people deceased in 1640, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom ranks 21. Before him are Peter Fourier, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Robert Burton, Paul Fleming, John Francis Regis, and Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz. After him is Philip Massinger.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom ranks 581 out of 1,646. Before him are Eise Eisinga (1744), Jan de Vries (1944), Arie van Vliet (1916), Arie den Hartog (1941), Kees Kist (1952), and Jan Mostaert (1475). After him are Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau (1770), Semmy Schilt (1973), Candy Dulfer (1969), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Gisbertus Voetius (1589), and Gerrit Schimmelpenninck (1794).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom ranks 132. Before him are Meijer de Haan (1852), Albert Eckhout (1610), Corneille de Lyon (1500), Jan de Bray (1627), Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619), and Jan Mostaert (1475). After him are Cornelis Pietersz Bega (1630), Evert van Aelst (1602), Willem Roelofs (1822), Suzanne Manet (1829), Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598), and Paulus Bor (1601).

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