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Jan van Huysum

1682 - 1749

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Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; "by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers." Trained in decoration from a young age, he "gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish" creating "wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass." Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan van Huysum is the 986th most popular painter (down from 866th in 2019), the 423rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 364th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jan van Huysum ranks 986 out of 2,023. Before him are Dmitry Levitzky, Winslow Homer, Christen Købke, Ibn al-Bawwab, Luis Ricardo Falero, and Jörg Immendorff. After him are Jean-Baptiste Debret, James Rosenquist, Rihard Jakopič, Alexandre Calame, Ferrer Bassa, and Giovanni Giacometti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Jan van Huysum ranks 15. Before him are Shahu I, William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Jacopo Amigoni, Roger Cotes, and Jean-François Dandrieu. After him are Johann Jacob Bach, Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau, John Hadley, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, Christian Ferdinand Abel, and Jean-Joseph Mouret. Among people deceased in 1749, Jan van Huysum ranks 9. Before him are Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Alessandro Magnasco, Shahu I, Adel Shah, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, and Mkhitar Sebastatsi. After him are William Jones, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Matthias Bel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, André Cardinal Destouches, and Mark Catesby.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan van Huysum ranks 423 out of 1,646. Before him are Kees Rijvers (1926), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), Louis Couperus (1863), and Lou Ottens (1926). After him are Roche Braziliano (1630), Theo de Jong (1947), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), Jetty Paerl (1921), and Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Jan van Huysum ranks 91. Before him are Isaac Israëls (1865), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Karel Dujardin (1622), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), and Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821). After him are Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636), Adriaen Coorte (1665), George Hendrik Breitner (1857), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Dirck Hals (1591), and Thomas de Keyser (1596).

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