PAINTER

Jan van Huysum

1682 - 1749

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Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; "by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers." Trained in decoration from a young age, he "gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish" creating "wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass.. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan van Huysum has received more than 135,030 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jan van Huysum is the 866th most popular painter (down from 713th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 287th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan van Huysum ranks 866 out of 2,023. Before him are Wilhelm Marstrand, Thomas Rowlandson, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Hans Gude, Leandro Bassano, and Richard Gerstl. After him are Carolus-Duran, Martin van Meytens, Frans Francken the Younger, Andrew Wyeth, Vasily Tropinin, and Paja Jovanović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Jan van Huysum ranks 11. Before him are Şehsuvar Sultan, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Jacopo Amigoni, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, and William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Roger Cotes, Jean-François Dandrieu, Christian Ferdinand Abel, John Hadley, and Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1749, Jan van Huysum ranks 6. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Adel Shah, Alessandro Magnasco, and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault. After him are Claudine Guérin de Tencin, William Jones, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Matthias Bel, and André Cardinal Destouches.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan van Huysum ranks 364 out of 1,646. Before him are Rafael van der Vaart (1983), Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (1923), Kea Bouman (1903), Aldo van Eyck (1918), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), and Piet de Jong (1915). After him are Anton Corbijn (1955), Huub Stevens (1953), Aert van der Neer (1603), Jan Timman (1951), Cristina Deutekom (1931), and Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Jan van Huysum ranks 79. Before him are Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633), Esaias van de Velde (1587), Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597), Isaac Israëls (1865), Hercules Seghers (1589), and Leonaert Bramer (1596). After him are Aert van der Neer (1603), Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608), Albert van Ouwater (1415), Cornelis Cort (1533), Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1472), and Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636).

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