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Horace Vernet

1789 - 1863

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Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (French pronunciation: [emil ʒɑ̃ ɔʁas vɛʁnɛ]; 30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863) more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace Vernet has received more than 298,814 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Horace Vernet is the 298th most popular painter (up from 305th in 2019), the 949th most popular biography from France (up from 982nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular French Painter.

Horace Vernet is most famous for his paintings of battles.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Horace Vernet ranks 298 out of 2,023. Before him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Louis Wain, Jacopo Bassano, Orazio Gentileschi, Félicien Rops, and Carlo Carrà. After him are Pieter Claesz, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Masolino da Panicale, Vasily Vereshchagin, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Adriaen van Ostade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, Horace Vernet ranks 8. Before him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, James Fenimore Cooper, Friedrich List, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, and María Isabella of Spain. After him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Abbas Mirza, Heinrich Schwabe, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, and Maria Szymanowska. Among people deceased in 1863, Horace Vernet ranks 7. Before him are Eugène Delacroix, Jacob Grimm, Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, and Alfred de Vigny. After him are Franz Xaver Gruber, Solomon Northup, Jakob Steiner, Stonewall Jackson, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Christian Friedrich Hebbel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Horace Vernet ranks 949 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe de Vitry (1291), Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401), Martin Bucer (1491), Jeanne Baret (1740), Charles Maurras (1868), and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763). After him are Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1709), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), Guillaume de Nogaret (1260), Edme Mariotte (1620), and Antoine Bourdelle (1861).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Horace Vernet ranks 68. Before him are Georges Rouault (1871), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), Martin Schongauer (1450), and Paul Delaroche (1797). After him are Albert Marquet (1875), Léon Bonnat (1833), Thomas Couture (1815), Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), and Pierre Mignard (1612).

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