PAINTER

Hendrik Willem Mesdag

1831 - 1915

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Hendrik Willem Mesdag (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈʋɪləm ˈmɛzdɑx]; 23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hendrik Willem Mesdag has received more than 49,774 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Hendrik Willem Mesdag is the 1,073rd most popular painter (up from 1,122nd in 2019), the 445th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 469th in 2019) and the 101st most popular Dutch Painter.

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Over the past year Hendrik Willem Mesdag has had the most page views in the with 10,096 views, followed by English (5,382), and German (2,368). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (128.33%), Egyptian Arabic (85.34%), and Esperanto (70.78%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hendrik Willem Mesdag ranks 1,073 out of 2,023Before him are Joachim Beuckelaer, Mykola Pymonenko, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Joaquín Torres-García, Barbara Kruger, and Agnes Block. After him are Wilhelm Leibl, Plautilla Nelli, Massimo Stanzione, Romaine Brooks, Moretto da Brescia, and John Atkinson Grimshaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Hendrik Willem Mesdag ranks 53Before him are Mary Mapes Dodge, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Wilhelm Raabe, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Konstantin Leontiev, and George Pullman. After him are Arsenio Martínez Campos, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Paolo Mantegazza, Henri Meilhac, Subh-i-Azal, and Georg Sauerwein. Among people deceased in 1915, Hendrik Willem Mesdag ranks 56Before him are Otto Weddigen, Johann Joseph Abert, Józef Brandt, Walter Crane, Béla Kiss, and Gabriel von Max. After him are Theodor Boveri, Inoue Kaoru, Hugo Schiff, Daniel Varoujan, Joe Hill, and Adolphe Pégoud.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrik Willem Mesdag ranks 445 out of 1,646Before him are Jan Akkerman (1946), Thomas de Keyser (1596), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), and Dick Nanninga (1949). After him are Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Johannes Kleiman (1896), Nicolaes Witsen (1641), Gerard Philips (1858), Princess Marie of the Netherlands (1841), and Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734).

Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Hendrik Willem Mesdag ranks 101Before him are Adriaen van de Venne (1589), Matthias Stom (1600), Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), Adriaen van der Werff (1659), Jan Miense Molenaer (1610), and Thomas de Keyser (1596). After him are Frans Post (1612), Anthon van Rappard (1858), Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1566), Gerrit Berckheyde (1638), Cornelis Ketel (1548), and Isaac van Ostade (1621).