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J. M. W. Turner

1775 - 1851

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. M. W. Turner has received more than 5,110,322 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). J. M. W. Turner is the 48th most popular painter (down from 45th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 72nd in 2019) and the most popular British Painter.

J. M. W. Turner is most famous for his paintings of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes. He was also a talented watercolorist and printmaker.

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  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, J. M. W. Turner ranks 48 out of 2,023. Before him are Amedeo Modigliani, Tintoretto, Nicolas Poussin, Anthony van Dyck, Paolo Veronese, and Andrea del Verrocchio. After him are Paul Klee, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Andrea Mantegna, Georges Braque, Fra Angelico, and Caspar David Friedrich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, J. M. W. Turner ranks 4. Before him are Jane Austen, André-Marie Ampère, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. After him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Adam Albert von Neipperg, and Georg Friedrich Grotefend. Among people deceased in 1851, J. M. W. Turner ranks 3. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted, and Marie Thérèse of France. After him are Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. M. W. Turner ranks 81 out of 8,785. Before him are David Bowie (1947), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), Alfred the Great (849), George VI (1895), and Elton John (1947). After him are Edward VI of England (1537), Diana, Princess of Wales (1961), Edward I of England (1239), Alan Rickman (1946), Mary Shelley (1797), and George Harrison (1943).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, J. M. W. Turner ranks 1. After him are John Constable (1776), William Hogarth (1697), John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Richard Hamilton (1922).

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