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Melchior d'Hondecoeter

1636 - 1695

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Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛlxijɔr də ˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c. 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Melchior d'Hondecoeter has received more than 74,994 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Melchior d'Hondecoeter is the 930th most popular painter (up from 951st in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 388th in 2019) and the 85th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 930 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan Porcellis, Cornelis Cort, Sebald Beham, Henri Gervex, Girolamo Savoldo, and Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen. After him are Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, Zhang Zeduan, Antonio López García, Abraham van Beijeren, January Suchodolski, and Ivana Kobilca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1636, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 8. Before him are Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Laura Mancini, Adriaen van de Velde, and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Libéral Bruant, Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Nikolai Spathari, Charles de La Fosse, Melchiorre Cafà, and Edward Colston. Among people deceased in 1695, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 13. Before him are Pierre Mignard, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Zumbi, Thomas Tew, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, and Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł. After him are Georg von Derfflinger, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Huang Zongxi, Pierre Nicole, Samuel Morland, and Christoph Arnold.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 387 out of 1,646. Before him are Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857), Floris II, Count of Holland (1091), Marc Overmars (1973), Cornelis Cort (1533), Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (1556), and Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1472). After him are Gottfried van Swieten (1733), Sjaak Swart (1938), Abraham van Beijeren (1620), Pierre Kartner (1935), Arend Lijphart (1936), and Pieter Post (1608).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 85. Before him are Jan van Huysum (1682), Aert van der Neer (1603), Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608), Albert van Ouwater (1415), Cornelis Cort (1533), and Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (1472). After him are Abraham van Beijeren (1620), Dirck Hals (1591), Simon de Vlieger (1601), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Allaert van Everdingen (1621), and Paulus Moreelse (1571).

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