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Adriaen Brouwer

1605 - 1638

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Adriaen Brouwer (c. 1605 – January 1638) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adriaen Brouwer is the 336th most popular painter (down from 333rd in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Belgium and the 21st most popular Belgian Painter.

Adriaen Brouwer is most famous for his paintings of peasants, drunkards, and other common people.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 336 out of 2,023. Before him are Félicien Rops, Thomas Couture, Léon Bakst, Willem de Kooning, Louis Wain, and Giovanni Paolo Panini. After him are Aelbert Cuyp, Carlo Crivelli, Adriaen van Ostade, Bernardino Luini, Paul Sérusier, and Claude Joseph Vernet.

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Among people born in 1605, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 5. Before him are Philip IV of Spain, Tianqi Emperor, Fatma Sultan, and Giacomo Carissimi. After him are Gevherhan Sultan, Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Şehzade Mehmed, Ayşe Sultan, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, Thomas Browne, and Semyon Dezhnev. Among people deceased in 1638, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 4. Before him are John Harvard, Cornelius Jansen, and Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg. After him are François Leclerc du Tremblay, Peter Minuit, Ivan Gundulić, Johannes Althusius, Amakusa Shirō, Willem Blaeu, Cornelis van Haarlem, and Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 120 out of 1,190. Before him are Eugène Ysaÿe (1858), Elio Di Rupo (1951), Félicien Rops (1833), Leo Baekeland (1863), Henri Pirenne (1862), and Ferdinand Verbiest (1623). After him are Paul Deschanel (1855), Jacques Arcadelt (1507), Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522), Frans Snyders (1579), Catharina van Hemessen (1528), and David Teniers the Younger (1610).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Adriaen Brouwer ranks 21. Before him are Joachim Patinir (1480), Pieter Claesz (1596), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601), Karel van Mander (1548), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), and Félicien Rops (1833). After him are Frans Snyders (1579), Catharina van Hemessen (1528), David Teniers the Younger (1610), Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759), and Jan Matsys (1509).

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