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Edmund Leighton

1852 - 1922

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Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 1852 – 1 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Leighton has received more than 514,740 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Edmund Leighton is the 549th most popular painter (down from 445th in 2019), the 1,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 987th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Painter.

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edmund Leighton ranks 549 out of 2,023. Before him are Anton von Werner, Guido of Siena, Charles Gleyre, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Willem Kalf, and Albert Bierstadt. After him are Sol LeWitt, Carlo Maratta, Pietro Longhi, Yoshitoshi, Ivan Bilibin, and Margaret Keane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Edmund Leighton ranks 34. Before him are Hipólito Yrigoyen, Christian Krohg, Victor Adler, Pietro Gasparri, John Louis Emil Dreyer, and Hans Vaihinger. After him are Ion Luca Caragiale, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Max von Gallwitz, I. L. Peretz, John Harvey Kellogg, and Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria. Among people deceased in 1922, Edmund Leighton ranks 40. Before him are Hermann Alexander Diels, Henri Désiré Landru, Catherine Dolgorukov, Giovanni Verga, Arthur Nikisch, and Gaston, Count of Eu. After him are Wolfgang Kapp, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Vlaho Bukovac, Wilhelm Voigt, Paul Durand-Ruel, and Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Leighton ranks 1,075 out of 8,785. Before him are Dave Gahan (1962), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), W. O. Bentley (1888), Bob Hope (1903), Ian Wilmut (1944), and Mungo Park (1771). After him are William Henry Perkin (1838), Jane Hawking (1944), Chris Patten (1944), Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001), Paul Grice (1913), and Sacha Baron Cohen (1971).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Edmund Leighton ranks 13. Before him are Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Richard Hamilton (1922). After him are John Tenniel (1820), Frederic Leighton (1830), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), John William Godward (1861), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), and George Romney (1734).

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