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Joaquín Sorolla

1863 - 1923

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencian: Joaquim Sorolla i Bastida, 27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joaquín Sorolla has received more than 872,271 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Joaquín Sorolla is the 205th most popular painter (up from 213th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Spain (up from 177th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Spanish Painter.

Joaquín Sorolla was a Spanish painter who is most famous for his paintings of the people and landscapes of his native country.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joaquín Sorolla ranks 205 out of 2,023. Before him are Pisanello, Quentin Matsys, Francesco Guardi, Gerhard Richter, Raoul Dufy, and Aristide Maillol. After him are John William Waterhouse, Alexandre Cabanel, John Everett Millais, Georgia O'Keeffe, Dieric Bouts, and Paul Delvaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Joaquín Sorolla ranks 18. Before him are David Lloyd George, Constantine P. Cavafy, Carlos I of Portugal, George Herbert Mead, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are Wilhelm Marx, Austen Chamberlain, Alexandre Yersin, Gaston Doumergue, Werner Sombart, and Max Wolf. Among people deceased in 1923, Joaquín Sorolla ranks 12. Before him are John Venn, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Jaroslav Hašek, Constantine I of Greece, Pancho Villa, and Warren G. Harding. After him are Pierre Loti, Dietrich Eckart, Julius Martov, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, and Katherine Mansfield.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joaquín Sorolla ranks 166 out of 3,355. Before him are John II of Castile (1405), Alfonso XI of Castile (1311), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548), Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64), Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (1535), and Queen Fabiola of Belgium (1928). After him are John II of Aragon (1398), Enrique Iglesias (1975), Al-Hakam II (915), Buenaventura Durruti (1896), Henry II of Castile (1334), and Abraham ibn Ezra (1089).

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Among PAINTERS In Spain

Among painters born in Spain, Joaquín Sorolla ranks 9. Before him are Francisco Goya (1746), Diego Velázquez (1599), Joan Miró (1893), Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617), Francisco de Zurbarán (1598), and Juan Gris (1887). After him are Antoni Tàpies (1923), Enrique Simonet (1866), Marià Fortuny (1838), Remedios Varo (1908), Francisco Pacheco (1564), and Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531).

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