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Louis-Léopold Boilly

1761 - 1845

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Louis-Léopold Boilly (French pronunciation: [lwi leɔpɔl(d) bwɑji] ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis-Léopold Boilly has received more than 155,738 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Louis-Léopold Boilly is the 582nd most popular painter (up from 698th in 2019), the 1,719th most popular biography from France (up from 2,086th in 2019) and the 112th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 582 out of 2,023. Before him are Joseph Wright of Derby, Nadežda Petrović, Maria Reiter, Heinrich Füger, Andrea Pozzo, and Joos van Cleve. After him are Fernand Cormon, Constantin Meunier, Henri-Edmond Cross, Kunisada, Oswald Achenbach, and Francesco del Cossa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 12. Before him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, William Carey, August von Kotzebue, Philippe Buonarroti, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Sineperver Sultan. After him are Antoine Barnave, Smithson Tennant, José, Prince of Brazil, Marie Harel, Marguerite Gérard, and Marie-Gabrielle Capet. Among people deceased in 1845, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 8. Before him are Julie Clary, August Wilhelm Schlegel, John Frederic Daniell, Roustam Raza, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and Guadalupe Victoria. After him are Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Bernardino Rivadavia, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Isabella Colbran, and Simon Mayr.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 1,719 out of 6,770. Before him are Francis Jammes (1868), William III, Duke of Aquitaine (910), René Char (1907), Guy Mollet (1905), Tomi Ungerer (1931), and Alain Cuny (1908). After him are Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken (1721), Nicolas Catinat (1637), Adam de la Halle (1245), Fernand Cormon (1845), René Grousset (1885), and Jacques de Vitry (1170).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 112. Before him are Séraphine Louis (1864), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807), Louis-Michel van Loo (1707), Émile Friant (1863), and Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848). After him are Fernand Cormon (1845), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jules Breton (1827), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), and Jules Dupré (1811).

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