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François-Xavier Fabre

1766 - 1837

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François-Xavier Fabre (1 April 1766 – 16 March 1837) was a French painter of historical subjects. Born in Montpellier, Fabre was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and made his name by winning the Prix de Rome in 1787. During the French Revolution, Fabre went to live in Florence, becoming a member of the Florentine Academy, where he taught painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François-Xavier Fabre has received more than 42,394 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). François-Xavier Fabre is the 873rd most popular painter (up from 899th in 2019), the 2,536th most popular biography from France (up from 2,621st in 2019) and the 160th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 873 out of 2,023. Before him are Carolus-Duran, Martin van Meytens, Frans Francken the Younger, Andrew Wyeth, Vasily Tropinin, and Paja Jovanović. After him are Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Helen Frankenthaler, Eustache Le Sueur, Aert van der Neer, and Jan Provoost.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 19. Before him are Maine de Biran, Dominique Jean Larrey, William Hyde Wollaston, Slimane of Morocco, Charles Macintosh, and Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. After him are Samuel Wilson, Robert Darwin, Samuel Frederick Gray, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Joseph Weigl, and John Leslie. Among people deceased in 1837, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 27. Before him are Jean-François Le Sueur, Mariano José de Larra, Gaspar del Bufalo, Akbar II, Marguerite Gérard, and John Latham. After him are Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Yuri Lisyansky, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Valentino Fioravanti, and Alexander Bestuzhev.

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In France

Among people born in France, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 2,536 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), Pierre-Étienne Flandin (1889), Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765), Albert Girard (1595), Jean Lefebvre (1919), and Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (1448). After him are Jean Daniélou (1905), Antoine Louis (1723), Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), and Philippe Garrel (1948).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 160. Before him are Maximilien Luce (1858), Marguerite Gérard (1761), Roman Opałka (1931), Gustave Boulanger (1824), Ford Madox Brown (1821), and Carolus-Duran (1837). After him are Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), Eustache Le Sueur (1616), Abraham Bosse (1604), Adolphe Monticelli (1824), Henri Gervex (1852), and Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700).

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