1789 - 1854
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English 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 66,683 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Martin is the 716th most popular painter (down from 651st in 2019), the 1,504th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,362nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Painter.
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Among painters, John Martin ranks 716 out of 1,421. Before him are Abraham van Beijeren, Allan Kaprow, Mihály Munkácsy, Esaias van de Velde, Jan van Huysum, and Luis de Morales. After him are Sidney Paget, Paula Rego, Carle Vernet, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Will Sampson, and Michiel Coxie.
1620 - 1690
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 710
1927 - 2006
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 711
1844 - 1900
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 712
1587 - 1630
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 713
1682 - 1749
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 714
1509 - 1586
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 715
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 716
1860 - 1908
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 717
1935 - 2022
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 718
1758 - 1836
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 719
1686 - 1755
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 720
1933 - 1987
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 721
1499 - 1592
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 722
Among people born in 1789, John Martin ranks 17. Before him are Heinrich Schwabe, Abbas Mirza, Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel, Maria Szymanowska, Carl Gustav Carus, and Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg. After him are Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Marcellin Champagnat, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, and Charles Rivière-Hérard. Among people deceased in 1854, John Martin ranks 13. Before him are Abbas I of Egypt, Johann Peter Eckermann, Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Zénaïde Bonaparte. After him are Marcellin Marbot, Almeida Garrett, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Kamehameha III, Fructuoso Rivera, and Nicolás Bravo.
1789 - 1875
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 11
1789 - 1833
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 12
1789 - 1867
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 13
1789 - 1831
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 14
1789 - 1869
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 15
1789 - 1823
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 16
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 17
1789 - 1868
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 18
1789 - 1840
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 19
1789 - 1856
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 20
1789 - 1845
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 21
1789 - 1862
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 22
1789 - 1850
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 23
1816 - 1854
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 7
1792 - 1854
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 8
1769 - 1854
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 9
1811 - 1854
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 10
1799 - 1854
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 11
1801 - 1854
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 12
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 13
1782 - 1854
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 14
1799 - 1854
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 15
1813 - 1854
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 16
1814 - 1854
HPI: 54.39
Rank: 17
1784 - 1854
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 18
1786 - 1854
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 19
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Martin ranks 1,504 out of 7,765. Before him are Alan Baker (1939), David Edward Hughes (1831), Sister Nivedita (1867), Alexander Cunningham (1814), Ciarán Hinds (1953), and Dick Taylor (1943). After him are Sidney Paget (1860), Bill Ward (1948), Lord William Bentinck (1774), N. R. Pogson (1829), Algernon Blackwood (1869), and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834).
1939 - 2018
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 1,498
1831 - 1900
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 1,499
1867 - 1911
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,500
1814 - 1893
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,501
1953 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 1,502
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,503
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,504
1860 - 1908
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 1,505
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 1,506
1774 - 1839
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 1,507
1829 - 1891
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 1,508
1869 - 1951
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 1,509
1834 - 1913
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 1,510
Among painters born in United Kingdom, John Martin ranks 20. Before him are Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), John William Godward (1861), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), and David Roberts (1796). After him are Sidney Paget (1860), George Stubbs (1724), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), Walter Crane (1845), and Herbert James Draper (1863).
1734 - 1797
HPI: 59.14
Rank: 14
1801 - 1848
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 15
1769 - 1830
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 16
1861 - 1922
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 17
1855 - 1919
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 18
1796 - 1864
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 19
1789 - 1854
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 20
1860 - 1908
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 21
1724 - 1806
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 22
1756 - 1827
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 23
1801 - 1828
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 24
1845 - 1915
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 25
1863 - 1920
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 26