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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

1834 - 1903

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His signature for his paintings took the shape of a stylized butterfly with an added long stinger for a tail. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Abbott McNeill Whistler has received more than 1,404,113 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). James Abbott McNeill Whistler is the 431st most popular painter (down from 316th in 2019), the 1,394th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,031st in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Painter.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler is most famous for his painting of the "Arrangement in Grey and Black," which is also known as "Whistler's Mother."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, James Abbott McNeill Whistler ranks 431 out of 2,023. Before him are Lovis Corinth, Anna Maria van Schurman, Yves Tanguy, Mikhail Vrubel, Zinaida Serebriakova, and Maud Lewis. After him are Suzuki Harunobu, Piero Manzoni, Catharina van Hemessen, Erich Heckel, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, and José Clemente Orozco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, James Abbott McNeill Whistler ranks 19. Before him are Julia Pastrana, Johann Philipp Reis, Norodom of Cambodia, Vasily Perov, Aleksis Kivi, and Charles Spurgeon. After him are Kondō Isami, Kawakami Gensai, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Carl Bloch, and Gaston Planté. Among people deceased in 1903, James Abbott McNeill Whistler ranks 19. Before him are Gotse Delchev, Gemma Galgani, Vasily Dokuchaev, Calamity Jane, Draga Mašin, and Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria. After him are Richard Jordan Gatling, Camillo Sitte, Marcel Renault, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Sabino Arana, and James Glaisher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Abbott McNeill Whistler ranks 1,394 out of 20,380. Before him are David Duchovny (1960), Sacagawea (1780), Nelson Goodman (1906), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), and John Brown (1800). After him are Dirk Benedict (1945), Don Cherry (1936), Josiah Warren (1798), Alfred G. Gilman (1941), William Lipscomb (1919), and Solomon Northup (1808).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, James Abbott McNeill Whistler ranks 12. Before him are Grant Wood (1891), Richard Serra (1939), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), and Joseph Kosuth (1945). After him are Bob Ross (1942), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Sol LeWitt (1928), Margaret Keane (1927), Jasper Johns (1930), and Frank Stella (1936).

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