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Jacob Adriaensz Backer

1608 - 1651

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Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608 – 27 August 1651) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years, including portraits, religious subjects, and mythological paintings. In his style, he was influenced by Wybrand de Geest, Rubens and Abraham Bloemaert. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Adriaensz Backer has received more than 40,890 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jacob Adriaensz Backer is the 885th most popular painter (up from 1,142nd in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 483rd in 2019) and the 81st most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jacob Adriaensz Backer ranks 885 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan Provoost, Joseph Anton Koch, Abraham Bosse, Beatrice Wood, Denis Calvaert, and Maerten de Vos. After him are James Gillray, Achilles Painter, Harriet Backer, Eugène Grasset, Henry Hill, and Tarsila do Amaral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1608, Jacob Adriaensz Backer ranks 10. Before him are Gaston, Duke of Orléans, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Tukaram, Ivan Vyhovsky, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, and Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine. After him are António Vieira, Pieter Post, Eudoxia Streshneva, and Thomas Fuller. Among people deceased in 1651, Jacob Adriaensz Backer ranks 12. Before him are Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Tugay Bey, Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Ngawang Namgyal, and Giulia Tofana. After him are Cornelis de Vos, Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Henry Ireton, and Heinrich Albert.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jacob Adriaensz Backer ranks 370 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan van Huysum (1682), Anton Corbijn (1955), Huub Stevens (1953), Aert van der Neer (1603), Jan Timman (1951), and Cristina Deutekom (1931). After him are Pieter Boddaert (1730), Jos Verstappen (1972), Albert van Ouwater (1415), Hendrick de Keyser (1565), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (1983), and Jaap Stam (1972).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Jacob Adriaensz Backer ranks 81. Before him are Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597), Isaac Israëls (1865), Hercules Seghers (1589), Leonaert Bramer (1596), Jan van Huysum (1682), and Aert van der Neer (1603). After him are Albert van Ouwater (1415), Cornelis Cort (1533), Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1472), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), Abraham van Beijeren (1620), and Dirck Hals (1591).

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