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Melchior d'Hondecoeter

1636 - 1695

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Melchior d'Hondecoeter (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛlxijɔr də ˈɦɔndəˌkutər]; c. 1636 – 3 April 1695), Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Melchior d'Hondecoeter is the 997th most popular painter (down from 930th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 387th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular Dutch Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 997 out of 2,023. Before him are Ferrer Bassa, Giovanni Giacometti, Hans von Marées, Walter Crane, Frans Francken the Younger, and Mór Than. After him are Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Giovanni di Paolo, Richard Estes, Antonio López García, Jan Wildens, and Nikolai Yaroshenko.

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Among people born in 1636, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 9. Before him are Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Adriaen van de Velde, Laura Mancini, and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Edward Colston, Nikolai Spathari, Libéral Bruant, Charles de La Fosse, Melchiorre Cafà, and Justine Siegemund. Among people deceased in 1695, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 13. Before him are Pierre Mignard, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Zumbi, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, and Thomas Tew. After him are Paul Hermann, Pierre Nicole, Georg von Derfflinger, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Christoph Arnold, and Huang Zongxi.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 427 out of 1,646. Before him are Louis Couperus (1863), Lou Ottens (1926), Jan van Huysum (1682), Roche Braziliano (1630), Theo de Jong (1947), and Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937). After him are Jetty Paerl (1921), Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885), Jordi Cruyff (1974), Adriaen Coorte (1665), George Hendrik Breitner (1857), and Pim Verbeek (1956).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Melchior d'Hondecoeter ranks 92. Before him are Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621), Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635), Karel Dujardin (1622), Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), and Jan van Huysum (1682). After him are Adriaen Coorte (1665), George Hendrik Breitner (1857), Jan Dirksz Both (1618), Dirck Hals (1591), Thomas de Keyser (1596), and Adriaen van de Venne (1589).

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