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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 340,353 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gwen John is the 1,719th most popular painter (down from 1,496th in 2019), the 3,401st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,254th in 2019) and the 74th most popular British Painter.

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  • 55.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gwen John ranks 1,719 out of 2,023. Before her are Joseph Noel Paton, Robert Ryman, Marianne Stokes, Theodore Robinson, Brygos Painter, and Pauline Auzou. After her are Kate Greenaway, Pieter de Grebber, Albín Brunovský, Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, Stanley Spencer, and Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Gwen John ranks 151. Before her are Walter Burley Griffin, John Marshall, Flora Sandes, Alfred Stock, Marvin Hart, and Nikolay Burdenko. After her are Harriet Brooks, Stan Rowley, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Paul Rivet, and Alexandre Tuffère. Among people deceased in 1939, Gwen John ranks 122. Before her are Alberto Palacio, Alfredo Panzini, Kullervo Manner, Dmitry Grave, Zane Grey, and Oton Iveković. After her are Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid, Fausto dos Santos, Har Dayal, Georges Pitoëff, Madeleine Pelletier, and Ford Sterling.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gwen John ranks 3,401 out of 8,785. Before her are Clint Mansell (1963), Agnes Arber (1879), Frederick Catherwood (1799), Janet Baker (1933), Roy Ward Baker (1916), and Carlo Acutis (1991). After her are James Thomson (1700), Edward William Lane (1801), Kate Greenaway (1846), Mike Figgis (1948), William Rutter Dawes (1799), and Barry Flanagan (1941).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Gwen John ranks 74. Before her are Clive Bell (1881), John Hoppner (1758), David Allan (1744), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), David Octavius Hill (1802), and Joseph Noel Paton (1821). After her are Kate Greenaway (1846), Stanley Spencer (1891), Simeon Solomon (1840), Margaret Mee (1909), Marie Spartali Stillman (1844), and Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852).

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