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Jan van der Heyden

1637 - 1712

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Jan van der Heyden (5 March 1637, Gorinchem – 28 March 1712, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became one of the leading architectural painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan van der Heyden has received more than 112,141 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jan van der Heyden is the 737th most popular painter (up from 766th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 306th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan van der Heyden ranks 737 out of 2,023. Before him are Emil Orlík, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Marie Bracquemond, Paolo Veneziano, Viktor Hartmann, and Mihály Zichy. After him are Julio González, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, George Romney, Gillis van Coninxloo, Adam Frans van der Meulen, and Spinello Aretino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1637, Jan van der Heyden ranks 8. Before him are Jan Swammerdam, Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Anne Hyde, Nicolas Catinat, Bernardo Pasquini, and Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After him are Anne Marie Martinozzi, Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau, Jacques Marquette, and Edmund Andros. Among people deceased in 1712, Jan van der Heyden ranks 13. Before him are Bahadur Shah I, Nicolas Catinat, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Tokugawa Ienobu, Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Nehemiah Grew. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Jan Luyken, Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, and Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan van der Heyden ranks 301 out of 1,646. Before him are Floris I, Count of Holland (1025), Jan Mandijn (1500), Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1622), Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1768), Ton Koopman (1944), and Anthony van Diemen (1593). After him are Henri Winkelman (1876), Lidwina (1380), Jacob van Heemskerck (1567), Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510), Theo Jansen (1948), and Piet Schrijvers (1946).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Jan van der Heyden ranks 66. Before him are Nicolaes Maes (1634), Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613), Pieter van Laer (1599), Arnold Houbraken (1660), Jan Mandijn (1500), and Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1622). After him are Marinus van Reymerswaele (1490), Adriaen van de Velde (1636), Aert de Gelder (1645), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Karel Dujardin (1622), and Emanuel de Witte (1617).

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