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Karel Škréta

1610 - 1674

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Karel Škréta Šotnovský of Závořice (Czech: Karel Škréta Šotnovský ze Závořic; 1610 – 30 July 1674) was a portrait painter who worked in the Baroque style. He was from Bohemia. He lived through the Thirty Years' War which caused him some hardships as a Protestant which led him to leave Prague for Saxony and then Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Škréta is the 1,639th most popular painter (down from 910th in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 287th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Czech Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karel Škréta ranks 1,639 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan van de Cappelle, Javier Mariscal, Simon Ushakov, Mark Tobey, Leonardus Nardus, and Theodoric of Prague. After him are Corneliu Baba, Max Švabinský, Regina Ghazaryan, Fyodor Vasilyev, Josef Abel, and Childe Hassam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, Karel Škréta ranks 22. Before him are Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Jan Miense Molenaer, Albert Eckhout, Louise Moillon, Huang Zongxi, and Georg Marcgrave. After him is William Dobson. Among people deceased in 1674, Karel Škréta ranks 21. Before him are Ebba Brahe, Johannes Lingelbach, Kanō Tan'yū, Pieter Boel, Hu Zhengyan, and Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. After him are Robert Herrick, and Thomas Traherne.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Škréta ranks 564 out of 1,200. Before him are Géza Fejérváry (1833), Julius Zeyer (1841), Petr Eben (1929), František Škroup (1801), Jan Šrámek (1870), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857). After him are Jiří Čadek (1935), Max Švabinský (1873), Jan Brzák-Felix (1912), František Šterc (1912), Oldřich Lipský (1924), and Ernst Streeruwitz (1874).

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Among PAINTERS In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Karel Škréta ranks 18. Before him are Petr Brandl (1668), Josef Mánes (1820), Joseph von Führich (1800), Bohumil Kubišta (1884), Václav Brožík (1851), and Vladimír Vašíček (1919). After him are Max Švabinský (1873), Alfred Roller (1864), Emil Filla (1882), Oldřich Lajsek (1925), Jaroslav Čermák (1830), and Ferdinand Bauer (1760).

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