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Gilbert Stuart

1755 - 1828

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Gilbert Stuart (né Stewart; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter born in the Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washington, begun in 1796, which is usually referred to as the Athenaeum Portrait. Stuart retained the original and used it to paint scores of copies that were commissioned by patrons in America and abroad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilbert Stuart has received more than 865,226 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gilbert Stuart is the 1,304th most popular painter (down from 1,062nd in 2019), the 4,795th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,848th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Painter.

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  • 49.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gilbert Stuart ranks 1,304 out of 1,421. Before him are Mór Than, Gerhard Munthe, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Adam van Noort, Pavel Fedotov, and Ivan Aguéli. After him are Erik Werenskiold, Dionisius, Max Švabinský, Chen Hongshou, Charb, and Simon Hantaï.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Gilbert Stuart ranks 35. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, and Stanisław Staszic. After him are Fausto Elhuyar, Sarah Siddons, Abol-Fath Khan Zand, Robert Kerr, Nathan Hale, and Jacques Labillardière. Among people deceased in 1828, Gilbert Stuart ranks 27. Before him are François Isaac de Rivaz, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Jacques Lauriston, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, and Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles. After him are Samuel Frederick Gray, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Christian August Lorentzen, Vincenzo Monti, Thomas Bewick, and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gilbert Stuart ranks 4,795 out of 18,182. Before him are Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Matthew Lillard (1970), Sean S. Cunningham (1941), Anne Revere (1903), Joel McCrea (1905), and Grant Show (1962). After him are Henry Cowell (1897), Connie Willis (1945), Johnny Thunders (1952), Aldo Leopold (1887), Travis Barker (1975), and John Elkann (1976).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Gilbert Stuart ranks 62. Before him are Mark Tobey (1890), John Trumbull (1756), Childe Hassam (1859), George Catlin (1796), Alice Neel (1900), and Haddon Sundblom (1899). After him are Charles Demuth (1883), George Bellows (1882), Alice Pike Barney (1857), Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837), Arthur Dove (1880), and Frank Frazetta (1928).

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