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George Inness

1825 - 1894

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George Inness (May 1, 1825 – August 3, 1894) was an American landscape painter. Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced by the Hudson River School at the start of his career. He also studied the Old Masters, and artists of the Barbizon school during later trips to Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Inness has received more than 303,412 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). George Inness is the 1,791st most popular painter (down from 1,588th in 2019), the 7,249th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,194th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Painter.

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  • 47.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, George Inness ranks 1,791 out of 2,023. Before him are Charles Sheeler, Vladimir Dimitrov, László Paál, Ion Andreescu, Francesco Clemente, and Lawrence Weiner. After him are Lajos Tihanyi, Moshe Castel, Clyfford Still, Hale Asaf, Alberto Vargas, and Theodor Pallady.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, George Inness ranks 70. Before him are Domenico Agostini, Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Pashko Vasa, E. Marlitt, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, and Federico Errázuriz Zañartu. After him are Anton Heinrich Springer, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Adelaide Anne Procter, Giuseppe Prinzi, Richard Maack, and R. M. Ballantyne. Among people deceased in 1894, George Inness ranks 77. Before him are Boston Corbett, Joseph Schröter, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, George Romanes, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, and Victor Duruy. After him are Alphons Czibulka, R. M. Ballantyne, Kitamura Tokoku, Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Alexander Wittek, and Lobengula.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Inness ranks 7,249 out of 20,380. Before him are Annie Easley (1933), Richard Egan (1921), Al Lewis (1923), David Dastmalchian (1977), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), and Yasmine Bleeth (1968). After him are Oliver Ellsworth (1745), Edith McGuire (1944), Diamanda Galás (1955), Garret Dillahunt (1964), Marco Beltrami (1966), and Buddy Hackett (1924).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, George Inness ranks 96. Before him are Cecilia Beaux (1855), Washington Allston (1779), Paul McCarthy (1945), Kay Sage (1898), Charles Sheeler (1883), and Lawrence Weiner (1942). After him are Clyfford Still (1904), Mel Ramos (1935), Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), John Marin (1870), Charles Dana Gibson (1867), and Alice Neel (1900).

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