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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 658,005 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). George Catlin is the 1,249th most popular painter (down from 1,154th in 2019), the 4,528th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,420th in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, George Catlin ranks 1,249 out of 1,421. Before him are Kuroda Seiki, Jan van de Cappelle, Childe Hassam, Félix Bracquemond, Simon Bening, and Franz Defregger. After him are Agnes Martin, Antonio Berni, Edward Robert Hughes, Paul César Helleu, Apollinary Vasnetsov, and Gerard de Lairesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, George Catlin ranks 38. Before him are Manto Mavrogenous, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Walter Hunt, Francis Crozier, and William H. Prescott. After him are Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Fernán Caballero, Anton Pann, Horace Mann, Antonios Kriezis, and Franz von Schober. Among people deceased in 1872, George Catlin ranks 43. Before him are Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl Jaenisch, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Horace Greeley, Martin Ohm, and Michele Carafa. After him are Friedrich Welwitsch, Benjamin Briggs, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Hugo von Mohl, and Michel Carré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Catlin ranks 4,528 out of 18,182. Before him are Allan Sandage (1926), John Carroll Lynch (1963), Harry Hillman (1881), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), and Will Patton (1954). After him are Eric Shinseki (1942), Dana White (1969), Linda McMahon (1948), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), William Graham Sumner (1840), and Isadore Singer (1924).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, George Catlin ranks 59. Before him are George Segal (1924), Joseph Cornell (1903), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Mark Tobey (1890), John Trumbull (1756), and Childe Hassam (1859). After him are Alice Neel (1900), Haddon Sundblom (1899), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Charles Demuth (1883), George Bellows (1882), and Alice Pike Barney (1857).

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