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Rachel Ruysch

1664 - 1750

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Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rachel Ruysch has received more than 279,930 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Rachel Ruysch is the 485th most popular painter (down from 474th in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 182nd in 2019) and the 45th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Rachel Ruysch ranks 485 out of 2,023Before her are André Lhote, Frits Thaulow, Alesso Baldovinetti, Mattia Preti, Hugo Simberg, and Giuseppe Cesari. After her are Jan van Scorel, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Eugène Atget, Paloma Picasso, Roelant Savery, and Moïse Kisling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1664, Rachel Ruysch ranks 3Before her are Mustafa II, and Jean Meslier. After her are François Louis, Prince of Conti, Giulio Alberoni, Praskovia Saltykova, Magnus Stenbock, Johann Homann, Arvid Horn, Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and János Pálffy. Among people deceased in 1750, Rachel Ruysch ranks 7Before her are Johann Sebastian Bach, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, John V of Portugal, Maurice de Saxe, Emperor Sakuramachi, and Sylvius Leopold Weiss. After her are Giuseppe Sammartini, Vasily Tatishchev, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Apostolo Zeno, and Domenico Montagnana.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Rachel Ruysch ranks 197 out of 1,646Before her are Eddie Van Halen (1955), Balthasar van der Ast (1593), Willem de Sitter (1872), Nicholas J. Spykman (1893), Wesley Sneijder (1984), and Johann Adam Reincken (1643). After her are Jan van Scorel (1495), Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606), Jan Janszoon (1570), Willem Drees (1886), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), and Guido van Rossum (1956).

Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Rachel Ruysch ranks 45Before her are Ferdinand Bol (1616), Karel Appel (1921), Pieter Lastman (1583), Jan Lievens (1607), Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588), and Balthasar van der Ast (1593). After her are Jan van Scorel (1495), Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606), Philips Wouwerman (1619), Johan Jongkind (1819), Antonis Mor (1519), and Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (1627).