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Edward Hicks

1780 - 1849

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Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished Christian minister of the Society of Friends (a.k.a. "Quakers"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Hicks has received more than 270,705 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Edward Hicks is the 1,855th most popular painter (down from 1,509th in 2019), the 8,037th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,190th in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Painter.

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  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edward Hicks ranks 1,855 out of 2,023. Before him are Elena Guro, Andrei Ryabushkin, Gottfried Honegger, Claude Renoir, Andrei Kolkoutine, and Broncia Koller-Pinell. After him are Edward Ruscha, Thomas Phillips, George Clausen, Samuel Palmer, Lucebert, and Antônio Parreiras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Edward Hicks ranks 52. Before him are Matvei Gedenshtrom, Jørgen Jørgensen, Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Yakov Sannikov, John Forsyth, and Michele Tenore. After him are William Ellery Channing, Johann Friedrich Adam, Robert Smirke, Richard Rush, William J. Duane, and Thomas Chalmers. Among people deceased in 1849, Edward Hicks ranks 63. Before him are José María Carreño, Albert Gallatin, Ján Hollý, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, Francisco Ramón Vicuña, and William Townsend Aiton. After him is George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Hicks ranks 8,037 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill O'Reilly (1949), Madeline Miller (1978), Johnny Dodds (1892), Lorna Luft (1952), Jaden Smith (1998), and Glenne Headly (1955). After him are Isabel Briggs Myers (1897), Heather O'Rourke (1975), Larry Williams (1935), Walton Goggins (1971), Christopher Paolini (1983), and Theda Skocpol (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Edward Hicks ranks 108. Before him are Alice Neel (1900), Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849), Marsden Hartley (1877), Thomas Hart Benton (1889), Charles Willson Peale (1741), and Jim Dine (1935). After him are Edward Ruscha (1937), Edward Henry Potthast (1857), Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851), Charles R. Knight (1874), Arthur Dove (1880), and Maxfield Parrish (1870).

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