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Peter Lely

1618 - 1680

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Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 7 December 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Lely has received more than 379,291 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Peter Lely is the 1,017th most popular painter (down from 933rd in 2019), the 2,796th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,519th in 2019) and the 91st most popular German Painter.

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  • 27

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Peter Lely ranks 1,017 out of 1,421. Before him are Antoine Coypel, Anthon van Rappard, Bertha Wegmann, Nicolas Mignard, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, and Taddeo Zuccari. After him are Isaac Israëls, Édouard Detaille, Boris Vallejo, Antonio Ciseri, Beatrice Wood, and Frans Post.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Peter Lely ranks 10. Before him are Jeremiah Horrocks, Hishikawa Moronobu, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Jan Dirksz Both, and Juraj Križanić. After him are Michiel Sweerts, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla, and Vittoria Farnese. Among people deceased in 1680, Peter Lely ranks 27. Before him are Tokugawa Ietsuna, Joachim Neander, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. After him are Frans Post, Kateri Tekakwitha, Marco Uccellini, Symeon of Polotsk, Pierre-Paul Riquet, and Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Lely ranks 2,796 out of 6,142. Before him are Heinrich Rubens (1865), Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Albert of Aix (1060), Fritz Busch (1890), and Eugen Meindl (1892). After him are Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1606), Alfred Andersch (1914), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), and Albert O. Hirschman (1915).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Peter Lely ranks 91. Before him are Wilhelm Leibl (1844), Louise Catherine Breslau (1856), Abraham Mignon (1640), Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789), Ludwig Richter (1803), and Hans von Kulmbach (1476). After him are Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805), Hans von Marées (1837), Hermann Zapf (1918), Fritz von Uhde (1848), Max Slevogt (1868), and Fritz Bleyl (1880).

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