The Most Famous
Painters from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indians Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 2,023 Painters, 5 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 39th most number of Painters behind South Africa and Latvia.
Top 5 Painters
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indians Painters of all time. This list of famous Indians Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Raja Ravi Varma
1848 - 1906
HPI 75.1058 langsIndian painter from Kerala
- #2
Abanindranath Tagore
1871 - 1951
HPI 59.8425 langsIndian artist and writer (1871-1951)
- #3
M. F. Husain
1915 - 2011
HPI 57.5641 langsIndian artist (1915–2011)
- #4
Basawan
1560 - 1600
HPI 56.5218 langslate 16th-century Mughal Indian artist
- #5
Jamini Roy
1887 - 1972
HPI 55.7720 langsIndian artist (1887-1972)
Overlapping Lives
Which Painters were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Painters since 1700.
