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David Octavius Hill

1802 - 1870

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David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 – 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer and arts activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Octavius Hill has received more than 88,590 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. David Octavius Hill is the 1,708th most popular painter, the 3,374th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 72nd most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, David Octavius Hill ranks 1,708 out of 2,023Before him are Hashimoto Gahō, Albert Küchler, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, William Merritt Chase, Josef Danhauser, and August Malmström. After him are Ben Vautier, Oton Iveković, Eugène Devéria, Regina Ghazaryan, Joseph Noel Paton, and Robert Ryman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, David Octavius Hill ranks 50Before him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, Yuriy Venelin, Eugène Flachat, Robert Chambers, and Nicholas Wiseman. After him are Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Dorothea Dix, Manuel María Lombardini, Alexander Odoevsky, Charles-Mathias Simons, and Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1870, David Octavius Hill ranks 56Before him are Carlos Soublette, Imre Frivaldszky, Joséphine Fodor, Moshoeshoe I, Albrecht von Graefe, and Franz Josef Ruprecht. After him are Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, Auguste Duméril, Umihana Čuvidina, Pascual Madoz, Jules Pierre Rambur, and John P. Kennedy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Octavius Hill ranks 3,374 out of 8,785Before him are Stephen Baxter (1957), Simone Perrotta (1977), Peter Ackroyd (1949), Alexander McDonnell (1798), Robert W. Paul (1869), and Gillian Rubinstein (1942). After him are Harold Spencer Jones (1890), Henry Bishop (1786), Freddie Bartholomew (1924), Patrick Malahide (1945), David Cox (1924), and John Shakespeare (1530).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, David Octavius Hill ranks 72Before him are Thomas Bewick (1753), Laura Muntz Lyall (1860), Clive Bell (1881), John Hoppner (1758), David Allan (1744), and Henry Scott Tuke (1858). After him are Joseph Noel Paton (1821), Gwen John (1876), Kate Greenaway (1846), Stanley Spencer (1891), Simeon Solomon (1840), and Margaret Mee (1909).