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Edwin Austin Abbey

1852 - 1911

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Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American muralist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Austin Abbey has received more than 193,715 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Edwin Austin Abbey is the 1,436th most popular painter (down from 1,382nd in 2019), the 4,840th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,245th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edwin Austin Abbey ranks 1,436 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan Theuninck, Hermann Zapf, George Bellows, Chen Jiru, Alexander Kanoldt, and Maruyama Ōkyo. After him are Cosmas Damian Asam, Haddon Sundblom, Amalia Lindegren, Václav Brožík, Jörg Immendorff, and Giulia Lama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Edwin Austin Abbey ranks 78. Before him are Meijer de Haan, Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, Gertrude Käsebier, Otto Binswanger, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, and Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are János Csernoch, Leon Wyczółkowski, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Simo Matavulj, William Burnside, and Vasily Safonov. Among people deceased in 1911, Edwin Austin Abbey ranks 59. Before him are Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Felix Mottl, Howard Pyle, Nikolay Beketov, Reinhold Begas, and Carl Fredrik Hill. After him are Florentino Ameghino, Carrie Nation, Gustaf Fröding, Ivan Grohar, Alphonse Legros, and Carolina Coronado.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Austin Abbey ranks 4,840 out of 20,380. Before him are Blackie Lawless (1956), William Zabka (1965), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Oliver North (1943), Rafer Johnson (1935), and Josephine Hull (1877). After him are Dennis Dugan (1946), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Theodore Maiman (1927), and John G. Trump (1907).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Edwin Austin Abbey ranks 63. Before him are Frank Frazetta (1928), John Trumbull (1756), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Adolph Gottlieb (1903), John Singleton Copley (1738), and George Bellows (1882). After him are Haddon Sundblom (1899), George Catlin (1796), James Rosenquist (1933), Anna Lea Merritt (1844), Rockwell Kent (1882), and Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847).

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