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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 88,594 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Michiel Sweerts is the 1,175th most popular painter (down from 1,055th in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 385th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Belgian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Michiel Sweerts ranks 1,175 out of 1,421Before him are Otto Muehl, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Jeff Wall, Alberto Burri, Giacomo Ceruti, and Giovanni Santi. After him are Iaia, Hans Erni, Boris Yefimov, Mikoláš Aleš, Paul Ranson, and Hiroshi Yoshida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Michiel Sweerts ranks 11Before him are Hishikawa Moronobu, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Jan Dirksz Both, Juraj Križanić, and Peter Lely. After him are Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla, Vittoria Farnese, and Abraham Cowley. Among people deceased in 1664, Michiel Sweerts ranks 13Before him are Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Henry II, Duke of Guise, Maria Cunitz, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Élisabeth de Bourbon, and Salomon de Bray. After him are Jan Janssonius, Guru Har Krishan, and Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Michiel Sweerts ranks 414 out of 1,019Before him are Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau (1578), Joseph Lebeau (1794), Joseph Poelaert (1817), Gustaaf Wappers (1803), Bobbejaan Schoepen (1925), and André Delvaux (1926). After him are Giaches de Wert (1535), Cécile de France (1975), Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823), Sophie Wilmès (1975), Raymond Braine (1907), and Didier Reynders (1958).

Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Michiel Sweerts ranks 75Before him are Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922), Joachim Beuckelaer (1533), Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), Justus Sustermans (1597), Eugène Boch (1855), and Gustaaf Wappers (1803). After him are Simon Bening (1483), Gerard de Lairesse (1640), Constant Permeke (1886), Hieronymus Cock (1518), Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626), and Adam van Noort (1562).