PAINTER

Michiel Sweerts

1618 - 1664

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Michiel Sweerts or Michael Sweerts (29 September 1618 – 1 June 1664) was a Flemish painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, who is known for his allegorical and genre paintings, portraits and tronies. The artist led an itinerant life and worked in Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam, Persia and India (Goa). While in Rome Sweerts became linked to the group of Dutch and Flemish painters of low-life scenes known as the Bamboccianti. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michiel Sweerts has received more than 95,906 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Michiel Sweerts is the 1,117th most popular painter (up from 1,174th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Belgium (up from 414th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Belgian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Michiel Sweerts ranks 1,117 out of 2,023. Before him are Constantin Hansen, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Stanisław Szukalski, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Adolf Wölfli, and Frank Dicksee. After him are Varvara Stepanova, Carl Moll, Félix Bracquemond, Wang Meng, François-Auguste Biard, and Emily Carr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Michiel Sweerts ranks 12. Before him are François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Peter Lely, Jan Dirksz Both, Jeremiah Horrocks, and Juraj Križanić. After him are Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, Vittoria Farnese, and Abraham Cowley. Among people deceased in 1664, Michiel Sweerts ranks 14. Before him are Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Maria Cunitz, Henry II, Duke of Guise, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Jan Janssonius, and Salomon de Bray. After him are Guru Har Krishan, Élisabeth de Bourbon, Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau, Cornelis Pietersz Bega, and Reinier Nooms.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Michiel Sweerts ranks 401 out of 1,190. Before him are Maria of Brabant, Holy Roman Empress (1190), Daniël Heinsius (1580), Lucien Buysse (1892), Herman Van Springel (1943), Dries Mertens (1987), and Mark Eyskens (1933). After him are Franky Vercauteren (1956), Hans Bol (1534), Robert Hennet (1886), Walter Godefroot (1943), Brian Molko (1972), and Hubert Pierlot (1883).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Michiel Sweerts ranks 78. Before him are Lucas van Valckenborch (1535), Aelbrecht Bouts (1450), Erasmus Quellinus the Younger (1607), Jan Wildens (1586), Joris Hoefnagel (1542), and Joachim Beuckelaer (1533). After him are Hans Bol (1534), Cornelis Schut (1597), Alfred Stevens (1823), Theodoor Rombouts (1597), Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626), and Adriaen Isenbrandt (1490).

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