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Jan van Kessel the Elder

1626 - 1679

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Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid-17th century. A versatile artist, he practiced in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions, scenes with animals and genre scenes. A scion of the Brueghel family many of his subjects took inspiration of the work of his grandfather Jan Brueghel the Elder as well as from the earlier generation of Flemish painters such as Daniel Seghers, Joris Hoefnagel and Frans Snyders. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan van Kessel the Elder has received more than 99,425 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jan van Kessel the Elder is the 1,213th most popular painter (up from 1,288th in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 446th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular Belgian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan van Kessel the Elder ranks 1,213 out of 2,023. Before him are Robert Motherwell, Araniko, Sam Francis, Erik Werenskiold, Benedetto Luti, and Nicolas Mignard. After him are Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Albrecht Adam, Salomon Gessner, Alexey Venetsianov, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, and Georg Pencz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Jan van Kessel the Elder ranks 14. Before him are Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, Giovanni Legrenzi, Louis Couperin, Bada Shanren, John Aubrey, and Andrea Guarneri. After him are Pietro Mengoli, Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken, Simon Ushakov, Ole Borch, and Louis Hennepin. Among people deceased in 1679, Jan van Kessel the Elder ranks 17. Before him are Jean François Paul de Gondi, Francesco Barberini, Margherita de' Medici, John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, Anne Conway, and Abraham Mignon. After him are Jan van de Cappelle, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, and John Mayow.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jan van Kessel the Elder ranks 442 out of 1,190. Before him are Dirk Frimout (1941), Raymond Braine (1907), Theodoor Rombouts (1597), George Minne (1866), Théophile de Donder (1872), and Jan Gruter (1560). After him are Georges Heylens (1941), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Perkin Warbeck (1474), Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938), Caspar Barlaeus (1584), and Gaston Eyskens (1905).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Jan van Kessel the Elder ranks 83. Before him are Joachim Beuckelaer (1533), Michiel Sweerts (1618), Hans Bol (1534), Cornelis Schut (1597), Alfred Stevens (1823), and Theodoor Rombouts (1597). After him are Adriaen Isenbrandt (1490), Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922), Louis Gallait (1810), Constant Permeke (1886), Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), and Gustaaf Wappers (1803).

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