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Pieter Boel

1622 - 1674

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Pieter Boel or Peeter Boel (baptized on 10 October 1622 – 3 September 1674) was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer. He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings. He moved to Paris, where he worked in the gobelin factory and became a painter to the king. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter Boel has received more than 37,123 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Boel is the 1,294th most popular painter, the 470th most popular biography from Belgium and the 91st most popular Belgian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pieter Boel ranks 1,294 out of 2,023. Before him are George Turner, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Emanuel Leutze, Georges Vantongerloo, Vilmos Aba-Novák, and Francesco Zuccarelli. After him are Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Maria Wodzińska, Boris Yefimov, M. F. Husain, Gerard de Lairesse, and Virginie Demont-Breton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1622, Pieter Boel ranks 16. Before him are Juan de Valdés Leal, Karel Dujardin, Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Johannes Lingelbach, and Francisco Herrera the Younger. After him are Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Cort Adeler, Adrien Auzout, and Dilras Banu Begum. Among people deceased in 1674, Pieter Boel ranks 19. Before him are Mehmed IV Giray, Hu Zhengyan, Ebba Brahe, Matthias Weckmann, Johannes Lingelbach, and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. After him are Kanō Tan'yū, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Robert Herrick, and Thomas Traherne.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Pieter Boel ranks 470 out of 1,190. Before him are Joseph Poelaert (1817), Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), Gustaaf Wappers (1803), Ferdinand de Marsin (1656), Jean Duvieusart (1900), and Georges Vantongerloo (1886). After him are Arno (1949), Gerard de Lairesse (1640), Olivier Gendebien (1924), Joseph Lebeau (1794), Joseph Mermans (1922), and Giaches de Wert (1535).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Pieter Boel ranks 91. Before him are Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922), Louis Gallait (1810), Constant Permeke (1886), Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), Gustaaf Wappers (1803), and Georges Vantongerloo (1886). After him are Gerard de Lairesse (1640), David Vinckboons (1576), Jacob de Gheyn II (1565), Adam van Noort (1562), Jan Theuninck (1954), and Simon Bening (1483).

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