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Harriet Backer

1845 - 1932

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Harriet Backer (21 January 1845 – 25 March 1932) was a Norwegian painter who achieved recognition in her own time and was a pioneer among female artists both in the Nordic countries and in Europe generally. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Backer has received more than 76,609 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Harriet Backer is the 1,103rd most popular painter (down from 1,089th in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Norway (up from 196th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Norwegian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Harriet Backer ranks 1,103 out of 1,421Before her are Giovanni Fattori, Vladimir Makovsky, Ad Reinhardt, Auguste Herbin, Girolamo Savoldo, and Max Slevogt. After her are Vitale da Bologna, Jesús Rafael Soto, Salomon Gessner, Francesco Granacci, Franciabigio, and Bonaventura Berlinghieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Harriet Backer ranks 52Before her are Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Henri Brocard, Ivan Puluj, Jules Guesde, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin. After her are Antonio Maceo Grajales, Judith Gautier, Wilhelm von Bode, Jules Cambon, Gustave Ador, and William Kingdon Clifford. Among people deceased in 1932, Harriet Backer ranks 67Before her are Frederick Jackson Turner, Rudolf Bauer, Francisco S. Carvajal, Paolo Boselli, Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, and Max Slevogt. After her are Julius Röntgen, Paul Neumann, Paul Gorguloff, Maximilian Voloshin, Lytton Strachey, and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Harriet Backer ranks 167 out of 927Before her are Bjørn Wirkola (1943), Jon Elster (1940), Peter Waage (1833), Toralf Engan (1936), Johan Grøttumsbråten (1899), and Marit Bjørgen (1980). After her are John Norum (1964), Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862), Colin Archer (1832), Eysteinn Erlendsson (1120), Hjalmar Andersen (1923), and Helge Ingstad (1899).

Among PAINTERS In Norway

Among painters born in Norway, Harriet Backer ranks 9Before her are Johan Christian Dahl (1788), Christian Krohg (1852), Theodor Kittelsen (1857), Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831), Frits Thaulow (1847), and Hans Gude (1825). After her are Oda Krohg (1860), Martinus Rørbye (1803), Gerhard Munthe (1849), Erik Werenskiold (1855), Adolph Tidemand (1814), and Kitty Lange Kielland (1843).