The Most Famous

PAINTERS from Algeria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,023 Painters, 1 of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 59th most number of Painters behind U.S. Virgin Islands, and Colombia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Painters of all time. This list of famous Algerian Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Édouard-Henri Avril (1849 - 1928)

With an HPI of 67.98, Édouard-Henri Avril is the most famous Algerian Painter.  His biography has been translated into 45 different languages on wikipedia.

Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 – 28 July 1928) was a French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril, he was an illustrator of erotic literature. Avril was a soldier before starting his career in art; he was awarded with the Legion of Honour for his actions in the Franco-Prussian War.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Algerian painters born between 1849 and 1849. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Algerian painters include Édouard-Henri Avril.

Deceased Algerian Painters

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