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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. The friends he made in Italy included the dramatist, Vittorio Alfieri, whose widow, Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany, he is said to have married. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François-Xavier Fabre has received more than 38,760 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). François-Xavier Fabre is the 900th most popular painter (down from 876th in 2019), the 2,630th most popular biography from France (down from 2,475th in 2019) and the 161st most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 900 out of 1,421Before him are Kanō Eitoku, Gaspard Dughet, Torii Kiyonaga, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Per Kirkeby, and Eustache Le Sueur. After him are Andrea Appiani, Candido Portinari, Lucia Anguissola, Wang Meng, Pellegrino Tibaldi, and Adolf Ziegler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 19Before him are William Hyde Wollaston, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Johanna Schopenhauer, Robert Darwin, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and Charles Macintosh. After him are Slimane of Morocco, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Samuel Wilson, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and John Leslie. Among people deceased in 1837, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 28Before him are Gaspar del Bufalo, Jean-François Le Sueur, Akbar II, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, and Marguerite Gérard. After him are Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, John Latham, Yuri Lisyansky, Alexander Bestuzhev, John Soane, and Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 2,630 out of 6,011Before him are Eugène Schueller (1881), Roger Chartier (1945), Eustache Le Sueur (1616), William I of Provence (950), Yves Allégret (1907), and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763). After him are Michel de l'Hôpital (1505), Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), Fabre d'Églantine (1750), Albert Kahn (1860), and Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy (1386).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, François-Xavier Fabre ranks 161Before him are André Beauneveu (1330), Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809), Gustave Le Gray (1820), Marguerite Gérard (1761), Paul Émile Chabas (1869), and Eustache Le Sueur (1616). After him are Abraham Bosse (1604), Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700), Nicolas Froment (1430), Jean François de Troy (1679), and Henri Gervex (1852).