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Peter Lely

1618 - 1680

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Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 30 November 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 402,657 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Peter Lely is the 749th most popular painter (up from 1,016th in 2019), the 2,069th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,793rd in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Peter Lely ranks 749 out of 2,023. Before him are Spinello Aretino, Eugène Fromentin, Luis de Morales, Josefa de Óbidos, Léon Cogniet, and Juan Sánchez Cotán. After him are Julian Schnabel, Arthur Rackham, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Frans Pourbus the Younger, and Andrea Sacchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Peter Lely ranks 8. Before him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Hishikawa Moronobu, Ivan Bohun, François Pierre La Varenne, and François Blondel. After him are Jan Dirksz Both, Jeremiah Horrocks, Juraj Križanić, Michiel Sweerts, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, and Mariana de Jesús de Paredes. Among people deceased in 1680, Peter Lely ranks 23. Before him are John George II, Elector of Saxony, Ivan Sirko, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Thomas Bartholin, Per Brahe the Younger, and Li Yu. After him are Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, Joachim Neander, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Kateri Tekakwitha, Frans Post, and Symeon of Polotsk.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Lely ranks 2,069 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Globke (1898), Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1307), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Wilhelm Adam (1877), and Otto Dietrich (1897). After him are Loriot (1923), Johann Homann (1664), Lotte Reiniger (1899), Tobias Mayer (1723), Bruno Loerzer (1891), and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1785).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Peter Lely ranks 71. Before him are Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937), Hans Hartung (1904), Philipp Veit (1793), Govert Flinck (1615), and Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721). After him are Walter Sickert (1860), Hans Richter (1888), Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737), Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Franz von Lenbach (1836), and Sigmar Polke (1941).

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