1682 - 1749
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 123,605 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jan van Huysum is the 714th most popular painter (up from 748th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 282nd in 2019) and the 69th most popular Dutch Painter.
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Among painters, Jan van Huysum ranks 714 out of 1,421. Before him are Liang Kai, Maurycy Gottlieb, Abraham van Beijeren, Allan Kaprow, Mihály Munkácsy, and Esaias van de Velde. After him are Luis de Morales, John Martin, Sidney Paget, Paula Rego, Carle Vernet, and Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
1200 - 1300
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 708
1856 - 1879
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 709
1620 - 1690
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 710
1927 - 2006
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 711
1844 - 1900
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 712
1587 - 1630
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 713
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 714
1509 - 1586
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 715
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 716
1860 - 1908
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 717
1935 - 2022
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 718
1758 - 1836
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 719
1686 - 1755
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 720
Among people born in 1682, Jan van Huysum ranks 10. Before him are Calico Jack, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Şehsuvar Sultan, Jacopo Amigoni, and Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach. After him are William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Jean-François Dandrieu, John Hadley, Roger Cotes, and Johann Jacob Bach. Among people deceased in 1749, Jan van Huysum ranks 7. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet, Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Adel Shah, Alessandro Magnasco, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, and William Jones. After him are Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Matthias Bel, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, and André Cardinal Destouches.
1682 - 1720
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 4
1682 - 1771
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 5
1682 - 1719
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 6
1682 - 1756
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 7
1682 - 1752
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 8
1682 - 1755
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 9
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 10
1682 - 1760
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 11
1682 - 1749
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 12
1682 - 1738
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 13
1682 - 1744
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 14
1682 - 1716
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 15
1682 - 1722
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 16
1706 - 1749
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 1
1677 - 1749
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 2
1719 - 1749
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 3
1667 - 1749
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 4
1676 - 1749
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 5
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 6
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 7
1682 - 1749
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 8
1684 - 1749
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 9
1690 - 1749
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 10
1662 - 1749
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 11
1676 - 1749
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 12
1672 - 1749
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 13
Among people born in Netherlands, Jan van Huysum ranks 287 out of 1,427. Before him are Henk Sneevliet (1883), Abraham van Beijeren (1620), Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (1788), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Frank de Boer (1970), and Esaias van de Velde (1587). After him are Jaap Stam (1972), Marc Overmars (1973), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Joop den Uyl (1919), Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz (1657), and Jan Janssen (1940).
1883 - 1942
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 281
1620 - 1690
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 282
1788 - 1899
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 283
1565 - 1599
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 284
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 285
1587 - 1630
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 286
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 287
1972 - Present
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 288
1973 - Present
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 289
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 290
1919 - 1987
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 291
1657 - 1696
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 292
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 293
Among painters born in Netherlands, Jan van Huysum ranks 69. Before him are Jozef Israëls (1824), Emanuel de Witte (1617), Hercules Seghers (1589), Aert de Gelder (1645), Abraham van Beijeren (1620), and Esaias van de Velde (1587). After him are Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633), Jan van der Heyden (1637), Albert van Ouwater (1415), Karel Dujardin (1622), Jan Miense Molenaer (1610), and Jan Mandijn (1500).
1824 - 1911
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 63
1617 - 1692
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 64
1589 - 1638
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 65
1645 - 1727
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 66
1620 - 1690
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 67
1587 - 1630
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 68
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 69
1633 - 1707
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 70
1637 - 1712
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 71
1415 - 1475
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 72
1622 - 1678
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 73
1610 - 1668
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 74
1500 - 1560
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 75