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George Catlin

1796 - 1872

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George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Catlin has received more than 706,483 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). George Catlin is the 1,444th most popular painter (down from 1,248th in 2019), the 4,876th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,516th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, George Catlin ranks 1,444 out of 2,023. Before him are Haddon Sundblom, Amalia Lindegren, Václav Brožík, Jörg Immendorff, Giulia Lama, and Juan Fernández Navarrete. After him are Christian August Lorentzen, Sascha Schneider, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Antoine Vollon, Constance Mayer, and Kazimierz Alchimowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, George Catlin ranks 40. Before him are Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Manto Mavrogenous, Horace Mann, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Andreas von Ettingshausen, and Antonios Kriezis. After him are Anton Pann, Juan Esteban Pedernera, Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Antun Mihanović, Philippe Buchez, and Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert. Among people deceased in 1872, George Catlin ranks 46. Before him are Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Horace Greeley, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Martin Ohm, Michele Carafa, and Benjamin Briggs. After him are Friedrich Welwitsch, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Andrew Smith, Michel Carré, Henry Halleck, and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Catlin ranks 4,876 out of 20,380. Before him are Edmund Randolph (1753), Kristen Bell (1980), Todd Phillips (1970), Daniel Kirkwood (1814), Woody Herman (1913), and Fred Thompson (1942). After him are Jane Powell (1929), Henry Adams (1838), Gianni Russo (1943), Seka (1954), Michael S. Hart (1947), and Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, George Catlin ranks 65. Before him are Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Adolph Gottlieb (1903), John Singleton Copley (1738), George Bellows (1882), Edwin Austin Abbey (1852), and Haddon Sundblom (1899). After him are James Rosenquist (1933), Anna Lea Merritt (1844), Rockwell Kent (1882), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837), and Alice Pike Barney (1857).

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