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Louis Meijer

1809 - 1866

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Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer (9 March 1809 – 31 March 1866) was a Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer, and draftsman. He painted in the Romantic tradition and is best known for his seascapes. Meijer was born in 1809 in Amsterdam in the Kingdom of Holland, present-day Netherlands. He studied under George Pieter Westenberg and Jan Willem Pieneman, and lived in Deventer, from 1841 in Paris and then in The Hague. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Meijer is the 1,811th most popular painter (down from 1,737th in 2019), the 795th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 750th in 2019) and the 154th most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Louis Meijer ranks 1,811 out of 2,023Before him are Emil Filla, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Jean Broc, Ivan Argunov, Vija Celmins, and Konstantin Yuon. After him are Suzanne Duchamp, Josefine Swoboda, Victor Chizhikov, Blanka Teleki, John Marin, and Thomas Hart Benton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Louis Meijer ranks 65Before him are Theodor Benfey, Aleksey Koltsov, William B. Travis, Andon Bedros IX Hassoun, Karl Bodmer, and Thomas Campbell Eyton. After him are Nestor Kukolnik, Giuseppe Giusti, Svend Foyn, Juan Antonio Pezet, Sterling Price, and Ștefan Golescu. Among people deceased in 1866, Louis Meijer ranks 47Before him are Jean-Jacques Willmar, José Ignacio Pavón, John Ross, Louis Fraser, Joseph Weydemeyer, and Henryk Rzewuski. After him are Thomas Love Peacock, Matvey Gusev, Lewis Cass, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, William Henry Harvey, and John Keble.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Louis Meijer ranks 795 out of 1,646Before him are Fedde Schurer (1898), Johan Boskamp (1948), François Brandt (1874), Nicolaas Beets (1814), Betty Stöve (1945), and Mia Gommers (1939). After him are Remco Campert (1929), Rineke Dijkstra (1959), Joep Lange (1954), Simone Simons (1985), Jaap van Zweden (1960), and Harry Steevens (1945).

Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Louis Meijer ranks 154Before him are Hendrik Voogd (1768), Pieter de Grebber (1600), Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst (1603), Charley Toorop (1891), Thérèse Schwartze (1851), and Cornelis Ketel (1548). After him are Lucebert (1924).