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Michael Sittow

1459 - 1525

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Michael Sittow (c. 1469 – 1525), also known as Master Michiel, Michel Sittow, Michiel, Miguel, and several other variants, was a painter from Reval (Tallinn), now capital of Estonia, who was trained in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. For most of his life, Sittow worked as a court portrait painter, for Isabella of Castile and her Habsburg relatives in Spain and the Netherlands, and other prominent royal houses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Sittow has received more than 111,028 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Sittow is the 604th most popular painter (down from 521st in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Estonia (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Estonian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Michael Sittow ranks 604 out of 2,023. Before him are Jules Breton, Carl Bloch, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Remedios Varo, Nicolas de Largillière, and Martiros Saryan. After him are Jules Dupré, Nikolaos Gyzis, Felix Nussbaum, Constant Troyon, Roberto Matta, and Giovanni Battista Moroni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1459, Michael Sittow ranks 12. Before him are Sultan Cem, Lorenzo di Credi, John I Albert, Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Cima da Conegliano. After him are Conrad Celtes, Hadım Sinan Pasha, Nicholas, Count of Salm, Jean Mouton, John I, Count Palatine of Simmern, and Yusuf Adil Shah. Among people deceased in 1525, Michael Sittow ranks 10. Before him are Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, Huayna Capac, Andrea della Robbia, Pietro Pomponazzi, Florian Geyer, and Eleanor of Viseu. After him are Charles IV, Duke of Alençon, Fernando d'Ávalos, Davide Ghirlandaio, Boccaccio Boccaccino, Franciabigio, and Lambert Simnel.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Michael Sittow ranks 32 out of 351. Before him are Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770), Kersti Kaljulaid (1969), Jaan Kross (1920), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), Johan Laidoner (1884), and Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622). After him are Lydia Koidula (1843), Neeme Järvi (1937), Alexander Gorchakov (1798), Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711), Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878), and Bernhard Schmidt (1879).

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Among PAINTERS In Estonia

Among painters born in Estonia, Michael Sittow ranks 1. After him are Eugen Dücker (1841), Amandus Adamson (1855), Johann Köler (1826), Konrad Mägi (1878), Ants Laikmaa (1866), and Paul Raud (1865).

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