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Anton Graff

1736 - 1813

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Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Graff has received more than 122,606 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Anton Graff is the 908th most popular painter (down from 851st in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 230th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swiss Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Anton Graff has had the most page views in the with 11,948 views, followed by English (10,960), and Russian (1,871). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (83.06%), Basque (72.40%), and Esperanto (69.78%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anton Graff ranks 908 out of 2,023. Before him are Pieter de Molijn, Candido Portinari, Alonso Berruguete, Hans von Kulmbach, Gaspard Dughet, and Adolphe Monticelli. After him are Louise Catherine Breslau, Karel Škréta, Cornelis de Vos, Christen Købke, Muqi, and Giampietrino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Anton Graff ranks 16. Before him are Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Edward Waring, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch. After him are Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Patrick Henry, Daniel Morgan, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, and Juan Bautista de Anza. Among people deceased in 1813, Anton Graff ranks 25. Before him are Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Géraud Duroc, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Johann Christian Reil, and Anton Bernolák. After him are George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Maria Caterina Brignole, Jacques Delille, Robert Kerr, Theodor Körner, and Edmund Randolph.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Anton Graff ranks 242 out of 1,015. Before him are Emma Jung (1882), Louis of Cyprus (1436), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Ignazio Cassis (1961), Jean Ziegler (1934), and Albert Scherrer (1908). After him are Claude Nicollier (1944), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Vincent Perez (1964), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), Rudolf Wolf (1816), and Matilda of Habsburg (1253).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Anton Graff ranks 17. Before him are Matthäus Merian (1593), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Jost Amman (1539), Charles Gleyre (1806), Théophile Steinlen (1859), and Eugène Grasset (1845). After him are Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Alexandre Calame (1810), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Cuno Amiet (1868), and Salomon Gessner (1730).

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