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Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Flemish painter

1564 - 1636

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His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Brueghel the Younger is the 114th most popular painter (down from 111th in 2024), the 43rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 34th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Painter.

Pieter Brueghel the Younger is most famous for his paintings of peasant life in Flanders.

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger ranks #43 among 1,454 people in Pantheon born in Belgium, inside the top 3% of that group.

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger's biography appears in 45 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 90% of all Painters.

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Among Painters

Among painters, Pieter Brueghel the Younger ranks 114 out of 2,055. Before him are Jacob van Ruisdael, Apelles, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Georges de La Tour, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, and Pontormo. After him are Yayoi Kusama, Simone Martini, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Francis Bacon, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1564, Pieter Brueghel the Younger ranks 4. Before him are Galileo Galilei, William Shakespeare, and William Adams. After him are Christopher Marlowe, Paulo Miki, David Fabricius, Francisco Pacheco, Hans Leo Hassler, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Federico Borromeo. Among people deceased in 1636, Pieter Brueghel the Younger ranks 1. After him are Date Masamune, Santorio Santorio, Mulla Sadra, Dong Qichang, Sendivogius, Stefano Maderno, John Albert II, Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Iskandar Muda, Gregorio Fernández, and Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Pieter Brueghel the Younger ranks 43 out of 1,454. Before him are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697), Eleanor of Austria (1498), Georges Lemaître (1894), William III of the Netherlands (1817), Jacques Brel (1929), and Hergé (1907). After him are Henri La Fontaine (1854), Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864), Pepin of Herstal (635), Margaret of Parma (1522), Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), and Herman Van Rompuy (1947).

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Among Painters In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Pieter Brueghel the Younger ranks 6. Before him are Jan van Eyck (1395), Anthony van Dyck (1599), René Magritte (1898), Frans Hals (1582), and Rogier van der Weyden (1390). After him are Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Jacob Jordaens (1593), James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Quentin Matsys (1466), and Hubert van Eyck (1366).

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