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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 75,012 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Willem Drost is the 1,201st most popular painter (down from 963rd in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 398th in 2019) and the 116th most popular Dutch Painter.

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  • 52.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Willem Drost ranks 1,201 out of 2,023. Before him are Eugène Jansson, Cuno Amiet, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, Guariento di Arpo, Theodoor Rombouts, and Louis Marcoussis. After him are Odd Nerdrum, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Euphranor, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Maso di Banco, and Robert Motherwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1633, Willem Drost ranks 14. Before him are Bernardino Ramazzini, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Yun Shouping, Willem van de Velde the Younger, Arsenije III Čarnojević, and Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Geminiano Montanari, Jean de Thévenot, and Mary Beale. Among people deceased in 1659, Willem Drost ranks 9. Before him are Kaya Sultan, Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, Simon Dach, Michał Boym, and Dara Shukoh. After him are Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Jan Baptist Weenix, Giovanni Pesaro, and Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Drost ranks 510 out of 1,646. Before him are Floor Jansen (1981), Derek de Lint (1950), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Dirck Coornhert (1522), Pieter Bleeker (1819), and Lodewijk van Heiden (1773). After him are Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Roméo Dallaire (1946), Jacob Israël de Haan (1881), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Sigrid Kaag (1961), and Carice van Houten (1976).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem Drost ranks 116. Before him are Barent Fabritius (1624), Maria van Oosterwijck (1630), Joachim Wtewael (1566), Cornelis Bloemaert (1603), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), and Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591). After him are Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Adriaen Coorte (1665), Bart van der Leck (1876), Jan van de Cappelle (1624), Dirk van der Aa (1731), and Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611).

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