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Karl Bryullov

1799 - 1852

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Karl Pavlovich Bryullov, also Briullov or Briuloff, born Charles Bruleau (Russian: Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в; 23 December [O.S. 12 December] 1799 – 23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1852) was a Russian painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Bryullov has received more than 272,426 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Karl Bryullov is the 320th most popular painter (up from 337th in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Russia (up from 348th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Painter.

Karl Bryullov is most famous for his painting "The Last Day of Pompeii," which depicts the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karl Bryullov ranks 320 out of 2,023. Before him are Gerard David, Grant Wood, Anton Mauve, Cosimo Tura, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, and Frans Snyders. After him are Carl Spitzweg, Alexander Roslin, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Oda Krohg, Ary Scheffer, and Francesco Primaticcio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Karl Bryullov ranks 9. Before him are Oscar I of Sweden, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Mary Anning, William Lassell, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. After him are Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, Anna Atkins, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Rodolphe Töpffer, and Karl Adolph von Basedow. Among people deceased in 1852, Karl Bryullov ranks 10. Before him are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, and Johan Gadolin. After him are Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Vasily Zhukovsky, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Ján Kollár, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and Xavier de Maistre.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Karl Bryullov ranks 314 out of 3,761. Before him are Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Georgy Chicherin (1872), Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), Nikolai Patrushev (1951), and Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933). After him are Leonid Govorov (1897), Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (1784), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Andrey Markov (1856), and Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Karl Bryullov ranks 10. Before him are Nicholas Roerich (1874), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), and Alexej von Jawlensky (1864). After him are Valentin Serov (1865), Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806), Vasily Perov (1834), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), Lovis Corinth (1858), and Mikhail Vrubel (1856).

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