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Pieter de Molijn

1595 - 1661

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Pieter de Molijn (6 April 1595 in London – 23 March 1661 in Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver of English birth and Flemish descent.He was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Austin Friars church in London. He was born to Pieter de Moijn, from Ghent, and Lynken van den Bossche, from Brussels. It is possible that the family emigrated due to business rather than religious persecution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter de Molijn has received more than 20,181 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pieter de Molijn is the 902nd most popular painter (up from 1,067th in 2019), the 1,751st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,146th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Pieter de Molijn has had the most page views in the with 2,177 views, followed by Dutch (841), and German (648). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (511.76%), Basque (220.93%), and Latin (73.58%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pieter de Molijn ranks 902 out of 2,023Before him are Pan Yuliang, Justus Sustermans, Johann Liss, Eugène Boch, Lucia Anguissola, and Paul Bril. After him are Candido Portinari, Alonso Berruguete, Hans von Kulmbach, Gaspard Dughet, Adolphe Monticelli, and Anton Graff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1595, Pieter de Molijn ranks 13Before him are Vasile Lupu, Dirck van Baburen, Jean Chapelain, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Ludovico Ludovisi, and Albert Girard. After him are Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency, Guru Hargobind, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Jean Desmarets, Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, and Heo Mok. Among people deceased in 1661, Pieter de Molijn ranks 14Before him are Zheng Zhilong, Andrea Sacchi, Louis Couperin, Jan Fyt, Teimuraz I of Kakheti, and Martino Martini. After him are Guru Har Rai, Pyotr Beketov, Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst, Daniel Seghers, Thomas Fuller, and Shah Shuja.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pieter de Molijn ranks 1,751 out of 8,785Before him are Walter Bagehot (1826), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), Orlando Gibbons (1583), Kim Wilde (1960), Antony Beevor (1946), and William Auld (1924). After him are Fergus Suter (1857), Thom Yorke (1968), Patrick Geddes (1854), Henry Maudslay (1771), Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), and John Flaxman (1755).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Pieter de Molijn ranks 28Before him are George Stubbs (1724), Sidney Paget (1860), Helen Allingham (1848), John Collier (1850), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), and James Gillray (1756). After him are David Roberts (1796), Matthew Paris (1200), Vanessa Bell (1879), Roger Fry (1866), Walter Crane (1845), and George Frederic Watts (1817).