1816 - 1872
John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists. Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Frederick Kensett has received more than 144,433 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Frederick Kensett is the 1,001st most popular painter (up from 1,385th in 2019), the 3,478th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,336th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Painter.
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Among painters, John Frederick Kensett ranks 1,001 out of 1,421. Before him are Ludwig Richter, Hans von Kulmbach, Jan Wildens, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Il Pordenone, and Arthur Hughes. After him are Prospero Fontana, Cornelis de Vos, Adriaen van de Venne, Caspar van Wittel, Othon Friesz, and François-Auguste Biard.
1803 - 1884
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 995
1476 - 1522
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 996
1586 - 1653
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 997
1922 - 2010
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 998
1484 - 1539
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 999
1832 - 1915
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 1,000
1816 - 1872
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 1,001
1512 - 1597
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 1,002
1584 - 1651
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 1,003
1589 - 1662
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 1,004
1653 - 1736
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 1,005
1879 - 1949
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 1,006
1799 - 1882
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 1,007
Among people born in 1816, John Frederick Kensett ranks 22. Before him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Paul Féval, père, Antoine François Marmontel, Rudolf Wolf, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra. After him are Malwida von Meysenbug, Wazir Akbar Khan, Ion Ghica, Jan Arnošt Smoler, August Karl von Goeben, and William Gull. Among people deceased in 1872, John Frederick Kensett ranks 33. Before him are Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Kamehameha V, George Robert Gray, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Avram Iancu, and Alfred Clebsch. After him are George Meade, Petar Preradović, Jacques Babinet, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl Jaenisch, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg.
1816 - 1872
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 16
1816 - 1887
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 17
1816 - 1898
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 18
1816 - 1893
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 19
1816 - 1897
HPI: 53.27
Rank: 20
1816 - 1880
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 21
1816 - 1872
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 22
1816 - 1903
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 23
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 24
1816 - 1897
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 25
1816 - 1884
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 26
1816 - 1880
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 27
1816 - 1890
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 28
1798 - 1872
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 27
1830 - 1872
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 28
1808 - 1872
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 29
1794 - 1872
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 30
1824 - 1872
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 31
1833 - 1872
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 32
1816 - 1872
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 33
1815 - 1872
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 34
1818 - 1872
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 35
1794 - 1872
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 36
1830 - 1872
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 37
1813 - 1872
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 38
1802 - 1872
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 39
Among people born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 3,478 out of 18,182. Before him are Lawrence Eagleburger (1930), Kenny Loggins (1948), Jack Thayer (1894), Donna Murphy (1959), Elizabeth Olsen (1989), and George Koval (1913). After him are Steve Berry (1955), Frank Jarvis (1878), John Marshall (1755), Tito Jackson (1953), Claire Danes (1979), and George Raft (1901).
1930 - 2011
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 3,472
1948 - Present
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 3,473
1894 - 1945
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 3,474
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 3,475
1989 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 3,476
1913 - 2006
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 3,477
1816 - 1872
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 3,478
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 3,479
1878 - 1933
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 3,480
1755 - 1835
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 3,481
1953 - Present
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 3,482
1979 - Present
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 3,483
1901 - 1980
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 3,484
Among painters born in United States, John Frederick Kensett ranks 40. Before him are Gutzon Borglum (1867), Chuck Close (1940), Henry Hill (1943), Barbara Kruger (1945), Lawrence Weiner (1942), and Evel Knievel (1938). After him are Sam Francis (1923), Beatrice Wood (1893), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Franz Kline (1910), Maso di Banco (1250), and Helen Frankenthaler (1928).
1867 - 1941
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 34
1940 - 2021
HPI: 53.93
Rank: 35
1943 - 2012
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 36
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 37
1942 - 2021
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 38
1938 - 2007
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 39
1816 - 1872
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 40
1923 - 1994
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 41
1893 - 1998
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 42
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 43
1910 - 1962
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 44
1250 - 1348
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 45
1928 - 2011
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 46