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Frans van Mieris the Elder

1635 - 1681

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Frans van Mieris the Elder (16 April 1635 – 12 March 1681), was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) and his grandson Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689–1763) were also accomplished genre painters. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frans van Mieris the Elder is the 970th most popular painter (up from 983rd in 2019), the 411th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 409th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Frans van Mieris the Elder ranks 970 out of 2,023. Before him are Zhang Zeduan, Ignacio Zuloaga, Evel Knievel, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, and Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. After him are Carlo Cignani, Karel Dujardin, Romaine Brooks, Raden Saleh, Max Slevogt, and Pablo Gargallo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1635, Frans van Mieris the Elder ranks 13. Before him are François l'Olonnais, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Zanabazar, Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy, and Philippe Quinault. After him are Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma, Patrick Gordon, Francis Willughby, and George Etherege. Among people deceased in 1681, Frans van Mieris the Elder ranks 10. Before him are Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, Justus Sustermans, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, and Zheng Jing. After him are Hermann Conring, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Agafya Grushetskaya, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Nikolay Diletsky.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Frans van Mieris the Elder ranks 411 out of 1,646. Before him are Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Ronald de Boer (1970), Jacob van Eyck (1590), Corrie ten Boom (1892), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), and Herman Gorter (1864). After him are Anna van Egmont (1533), Karel Dujardin (1622), Pieter Bleeker (1819), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), and Kees Rijvers (1926).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Frans van Mieris the Elder ranks 87. Before him are Cornelis Cort (1533), Abraham van Beijeren (1620), Simon de Vlieger (1601), Aert van der Neer (1603), Isaac Israëls (1865), and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621). After him are Karel Dujardin (1622), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), Jan van Huysum (1682), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), and Adriaen Coorte (1665).

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