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Willem Roelofs

1822 - 1897

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Willem Roelofs (10 March 1822 – 12 May 1897) was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman. Roelofs was one of the forerunners of the Dutch Revival art, after the Romantic Classicism of the beginning of the 19th century, which led to the formation of The Hague school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Roelofs has received more than 41,065 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem Roelofs is the 1,473rd most popular painter (down from 1,222nd in 2019), the 614th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 513th in 2019) and the 135th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Willem Roelofs ranks 1,473 out of 2,023. Before him are Louis Hersent, William Orpen, Ivan Aguéli, Lygia Clark, Kristjan Raud, and Nadezhda Udaltsova. After him are José de Madrazo y Agudo, Anna Lea Merritt, Rockwell Kent, Christian Rohlfs, J. C. Leyendecker, and Frederick Arthur Bridgman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Willem Roelofs ranks 58. Before him are Dmitry Grigorovich, Luis Sáenz Peña, Frederick Law Olmsted, Alexander Mackenzie, Mathew Brady, and August Heinrich Petermann. After him are Peter Michal Bohúň, Victor Massé, Wilhelm Bauer, Nikolay Ilminsky, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, and Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński. Among people deceased in 1897, Willem Roelofs ranks 50. Before him are Prince William of Baden, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Infanta Isabel Fernanda of Spain, Édouard Deldevez, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, and Rutherford Alcock. After him are Effie Gray, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Heinrich von Stephan, Aleko Konstantinov, Robert Themptander, and Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Roelofs ranks 614 out of 1,646. Before him are Coen Moulijn (1937), Willeke Alberti (1945), Johannes Burman (1707), Willem Johan Kolff (1911), Johannes Meursius (1579), and Arend Heyting (1898). After him are Diederik Korteweg (1848), Victor Marijnen (1917), Ibrahim Afellay (1986), Henk Groot (1938), Suzanne Manet (1829), and Ard Schenk (1944).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem Roelofs ranks 135. Before him are Jan de Bray (1627), Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619), Jan Mostaert (1475), Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1562), Cornelis Pietersz Bega (1630), and Evert van Aelst (1602). After him are Suzanne Manet (1829), Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598), Paulus Bor (1601), Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst (1603), Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594), and Jan van Bijlert (1597).

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