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Gwen John

1876 - 1939

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Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gwen John has received more than 305,681 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gwen John is the 1,498th most popular painter (down from 1,318th in 2019), the 3,262nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,235th in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Painter.

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  • 24

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  • 3.09

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  • 3.45

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gwen John ranks 1,498 out of 1,421Before her are J. C. Leyendecker, Gaspar Becerra, Hashimoto Gahō, Paulus Moreelse, Eugene Lanceray, and Alberto Vargas. After her are Isidor Kaufmann, Antonin Mercié, John McCrae, Ulrika Pasch, Edmund Dulac, and Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Gwen John ranks 141Before her are Nikolay Burdenko, Olav Duun, John Marshall, Elmer Drew Merrill, Marvin Hart, and Felix Jacoby. After her are Edgar Evans, Stephanos Christopoulos, Walter Burley Griffin, Stepan Erzia, Flora Sandes, and Violet Gibson. Among people deceased in 1939, Gwen John ranks 112Before her are Germán Busch, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Władysław Raginis, Ursula Ledóchowska, Olav Duun, and Sidney Howard. After her are Har Dayal, Otto Siffling, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Boris Grigoriev, Dmitry Grave, and Alberto Palacio.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gwen John ranks 3,262 out of 7,765Before her are Elton Dean (1945), Anne Bradstreet (1612), Mel B (1975), Kathy Burke (1964), Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707), and Paul Cook (1956). After her are Anthony Joshua (1989), Edgar Evans (1876), Jackie Collins (1937), Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), Biff Byford (1951), and Philip Barker-Webb (1793).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Gwen John ranks 70Before her are John Michael Wright (1617), Kate Greenaway (1846), Thomas Bewick (1753), Henry Raeburn (1756), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), and Thomas Moran (1837). After her are Henry Salt (1780), Peter Scott (1909), Allan Ramsay (1713), David Wilkie (1785), Joseph Noel Paton (1821), and Frederick Sandys (1829).