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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 920,761 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Gilbert Stuart is the 1,175th most popular painter (up from 1,303rd in 2019), the 3,828th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,783rd in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gilbert Stuart ranks 1,175 out of 2,023. Before him are Joaquín Sabina, Jacques Blanchard, Jankel Adler, Cornelis Bloemaert, Aleksander Gierymski, and Giovanni Fattori. After him are Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Richard Wilson, Mór Than, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Ugolino di Nerio, and Taddeo di Bartolo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Gilbert Stuart ranks 31. Before him are John Marshall, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Gaspard de Prony, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, and Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring. After him are Fausto Elhuyar, Anacharsis Cloots, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Sarah Siddons, Robert Kerr, and Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt. Among people deceased in 1828, Gilbert Stuart ranks 24. Before him are Charlotte Buff, Richard Parkes Bonington, Samuel Frederick Gray, James Edward Smith, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, and Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After him are Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Lady Caroline Lamb, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Jacques Lauriston, Eise Eisinga, and François Isaac de Rivaz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gilbert Stuart ranks 3,828 out of 20,380. Before him are George David Birkhoff (1884), David Janssen (1931), Donna Tartt (1963), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), Michael Berryman (1948), and Geraldine Farrar (1882). After him are Tia Carrere (1967), Ira Gershwin (1896), Michael Winslow (1958), Shannon Lee (1969), Gloria Foster (1933), and Ray Dolby (1933).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Gilbert Stuart ranks 45. Before him are Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), Winslow Homer (1836), Franz Kline (1910), Benjamin West (1738), Evel Knievel (1938), and Barbara Kruger (1945). After him are Richard Estes (1932), Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844), Robert Motherwell (1915), Sam Francis (1923), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), and Sarah Goodridge (1788).

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