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Paulus Potter

1625 - 1654

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Paulus Potter (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpʌulʏs ˈpɔtər]; 20 November 1625 (baptised) – 17 January 1654 (buried)) was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point. Before Potter died of tuberculosis at the age of 28 he succeeded in producing about 100 paintings, working continuously. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paulus Potter is the 383rd most popular painter (down from 307th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 130th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Dutch Painter.

Paulus Potter was a Dutch painter who is most famous for his painting The Bull.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paulus Potter ranks 383 out of 2,023. Before him are Lucio Fontana, Carlo Carrà, Dosso Dossi, William Holman Hunt, Albert Edelfelt, and Giovanni Segantini. After him are Polygnotus, Lovis Corinth, Armand Guillaumin, Elisabetta Sirani, Leonora Carrington, and Pietro Longhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1625, Paulus Potter ranks 3. Before him are Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and Johan de Witt. After him are John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, Carlo Maratta, Rasmus Bartholin, Erik Dahlbergh, Gregorio Barbarigo, Jean Domat, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, Pierre Nicole, and William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1654, Paulus Potter ranks 6. Before him are Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Axel Oxenstierna, Alessandro Algardi, Carel Fabritius, and Emperor Go-Kōmyō. After him are Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Samuel Scheidt, İslâm III Giray, Peter Claver, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, and Jacques Lemercier.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Paulus Potter ranks 148 out of 1,646. Before him are Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576), Wim Kok (1938), Ferdinand Bol (1616), Karel Appel (1921), Robert van Gulik (1910), and Geert Hofstede (1928). After him are Joris Ivens (1898), Meindert Hobbema (1638), Princess Irene of the Netherlands (1939), René van de Kerkhof (1951), Johnny Rep (1951), and Maarten van Heemskerck (1498).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Paulus Potter ranks 35. Before him are Willem de Kooning (1904), Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Adriaen van Ostade (1610), Gabriël Metsu (1629), Ferdinand Bol (1616), and Karel Appel (1921). After him are Meindert Hobbema (1638), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498), Rachel Ruysch (1664), Pieter Lastman (1583), Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (1627), and Ary Scheffer (1795).

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