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Willem Drost

1633 - 1659

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Willem Drost (baptized 19 April 1633 – buried 25 February 1659) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Drost has received more than 69,635 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Willem Drost is the 964th most popular painter (up from 1,064th in 2019), the 399th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 440th in 2019) and the 89th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Willem Drost ranks 964 out of 1,421Before him are Isaac van Ostade, Zao Wou-Ki, Bartolomeo Montagna, Louise Catherine Breslau, January Suchodolski, and Rufino Tamayo. After him are Willem van de Velde the Elder, Varvara Stepanova, Abraham Mignon, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Barbara Kruger, and Henri Le Sidaner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1633, Willem Drost ranks 11Before him are Emperor Go-Kōmyō, Kaya Sultan, Bernardino Ramazzini, Samuel Pepys, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Willem van de Velde the Younger. After him are Arsenije III Čarnojević, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Yun Shouping, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Geminiano Montanari, and Jean de Thévenot. Among people deceased in 1659, Willem Drost ranks 10Before him are Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, Michał Boym, Simon Dach, Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. After him are Dara Shukoh and Giovanni Pesaro.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Drost ranks 399 out of 1,427Before him are Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Isaac van Ostade (1621), Bep Voskuijl (1919), Walter Lewin (1936), Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), and Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937). After him are Roche Braziliano (1630), Herman Willem Daendels (1762), Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611), Herman Gorter (1864), Cornelis Cort (1533), and Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625).

Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem Drost ranks 89Before him are Arnold Houbraken (1660), Cornelis van Poelenburgh (1594), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), Thomas de Keyser (1596), and Isaac van Ostade (1621). After him are Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611), Cornelis Cort (1533), Adriaen van de Venne (1589), Caspar van Wittel (1653), Leonaert Bramer (1596), and Anthon van Rappard (1858).