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Michiel Coxie

1499 - 1592

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Michiel Coxie the Elder, Michiel Coxcie the Elder or Michiel van Coxcie, Latinised name Coxius (1499 – 3 March 1592), was a Flemish painter of altarpieces and portraits, a draughtsman and a designer of stained-glass windows, tapestries and prints. He worked for patrons in the principal cities of Flanders. He became the court painter to successively Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain. Highly respected by his contemporaries, Coxie was given the nickname the Flemish Raphael as some of his contemporaries regarded him as being on an equal level as the Italian master. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michiel Coxie is the 843rd most popular painter (down from 824th in 2019), the 313th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 300th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Belgian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Michiel Coxie ranks 843 out of 2,023Before him are Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Barbara Kruger, Wilhelm Marstrand, Pieter de Molijn, Joachim Beuckelaer, and Charles-Joseph Natoire. After him are Alonso Berruguete, Jean Fautrier, Vasily Tropinin, Gaspar de Crayer, Gillis van Coninxloo, and Amrita Sher-Gil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Michiel Coxie ranks 14Before him are Bernardino de Sahagún, Peter of Alcantara, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Claude Garamond, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, and Maria Salviati. After him are Garcia de Orta, Sebastian Franck, Jan Łaski, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Gjon Buzuku, and Laurentius Petri. Among people deceased in 1592, Michiel Coxie ranks 18Before him are William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Paschal Baylón, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern. After him are Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Moderata Fonte, Sibylle of Saxony, Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Girolamo Cassar, and Alessandro Striggio.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Michiel Coxie ranks 313 out of 1,190Before him are Stromae (1985), Claude Piron (1931), John I, Count of Hainaut (1218), Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau (1727), Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1851), and Joachim Beuckelaer (1533). After him are Jean Bolland (1596), Gaspar de Crayer (1584), Gillis van Coninxloo (1544), Romelu Lukaku (1993), Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (1322), and Étienne Constantin de Gerlache (1785).

Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Michiel Coxie ranks 58Before him are Jan Provoost (1465), Sebastiaen Vrancx (1573), Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569), Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632), Antoine Wiertz (1806), and Joachim Beuckelaer (1533). After him are Gaspar de Crayer (1584), Gillis van Coninxloo (1544), Frans Hogenberg (1535), Jan Porcellis (1583), Herri met de Bles (1480), and Frans Francken the Younger (1581).