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John Martin

1789 - 1854

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John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romanticist painter, engraver, and illustrator. He was celebrated for his typically vast and dramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings, and the prints made from them, enjoyed great success with the general public, with Thomas Lawrence referring to him as "the most popular painter of his day". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Martin has received more than 71,318 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John Martin is the 766th most popular painter (down from 715th in 2019), the 1,524th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,499th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Painter.

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  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Martin ranks 766 out of 2,023Before him are Jacek Malczewski, Walter Sickert, Arshile Gorky, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Pellegrino Tibaldi, and Shen Zhou. After him are Adriaen van de Velde, Alexei Savrasov, Agostino Tassi, Aert de Gelder, Hans Richter, and Donald Judd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1789, John Martin ranks 17Before him are Heinrich Schwabe, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Szymanowska, Carl Gustav Carus, and Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg. After him are Marcellin Champagnat, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, and Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow. Among people deceased in 1854, John Martin ranks 14Before him are Charles III, Duke of Parma, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Zénaïde Bonaparte, and Fructuoso Rivera. After him are Kamehameha III, Almeida Garrett, Marcellin Marbot, Jeremias Gotthelf, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, and Samuel Wilson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Martin ranks 1,524 out of 8,785Before him are Henry Gray (1827), Robert Powell (1944), Oswald of Northumbria (604), Rosamund Pike (1979), Trevor Horn (1949), and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720). After him are Margaret Burbidge (1919), Roger Williamson (1948), George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), Jack Phillips (1887), Algernon Blackwood (1869), and Kay Parker (1944).

Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, John Martin ranks 21Before him are Frederic Leighton (1830), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), John William Godward (1861), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), George Romney (1734), and Arthur Rackham (1867). After him are George Stubbs (1724), Sidney Paget (1860), Helen Allingham (1848), John Collier (1850), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), and James Gillray (1756).