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Anton Raphael Mengs

German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid

1728 - 1779

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His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2024). Anton Raphael Mengs is the 180th most popular painter (up from 181st in 2024), the 62nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 58th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Painter.

Anton Raphael Mengs was a German painter and art teacher. He is most famous for his series of frescoes in the Villa Albani in Rome.

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Anton Raphael Mengs ranks #62 among 1,455 people in Pantheon born in Czechia, inside the top 5% of that group.

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Anton Raphael Mengs's biography appears in 46 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 90% of all Painters.

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Among Painters

Among painters, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 180 out of 2,055. Before him are Anselm Kiefer, Benozzo Gozzoli, Fra Bartolomeo, John Everett Millais, Giulio Romano, and Hugo van der Goes. After him are Gustave Caillebotte, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ivan Shishkin, Bernardo Bellotto, Franz Stuck, and Chaim Soutine.

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Among people born in 1728, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 5. Before him are James Cook, Peter III of Russia, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Joseph Black. After him are Niccolò Piccinni, Chevalier d'Éon, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Antoine Baumé, Samuel Wallis, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, and Étienne-Louis Boullée. Among people deceased in 1779, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 3. Before him are James Cook, and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. After him are Emperor Go-Momozono, Thomas Chippendale, Karim Khan Zand, John Kay, Casimir Pulaski, David Garrick, William Boyce, Tommaso Traetta, and Louis de Jaucourt.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 62 out of 1,455. Before him are Antonín Panenka (1948), George of Poděbrady (1420), Milena Jesenská (1896), Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), Josef Masopust (1931), and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896). After him are Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Karl Renner (1870), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), and Karel Gott (1939).

Among Painters In Czechia

Among painters born in Czechia, Anton Raphael Mengs ranks 2. Before him is Alphonse Mucha (1860). After him are František Kupka (1871), Wenceslaus Hollar (1607), Anna Chromý (1940), Emil Orlík (1870), Georg Flegel (1566), Toyen (1902), Gabriel von Max (1840), Zdeněk Burian (1905), Mikoláš Aleš (1852), and Petr Brandl (1668).

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