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Louis Wain

1860 - 1939

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Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Wain has received more than 3,362,259 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Louis Wain is the 293rd most popular painter (up from 295th in 2019), the 609th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 645th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Louis Wain ranks 293 out of 2,023. Before him are François Gérard, Pieter Aertsen, Natalia Goncharova, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Carlo Crivelli, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. After him are Jacopo Bassano, Orazio Gentileschi, Félicien Rops, Carlo Carrà, Horace Vernet, and Pieter Claesz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Louis Wain ranks 25. Before him are J. M. Barrie, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ernest Thompson Seton, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Hugo Wolf, and John J. Pershing. After him are William Kemmler, Hjalmar Branting, Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Oda Krohg, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, and Karl Denke. Among people deceased in 1939, Louis Wain ranks 19. Before him are Karl Radek, Matthias Sindelar, Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Sapir, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and Antonio Machado. After him are Ferdinand von Lindemann, Ambroise Vollard, Alexander Yegorov, Anthony Fokker, Ghazi of Iraq, and Otto Rank.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Louis Wain ranks 609 out of 8,785. Before him are Amélie of Orléans (1865), Norman Angell (1872), James III of Scotland (1451), Philip Sclater (1829), William Dampier (1651), and Fred Perry (1909). After him are Thomas Hardy (1840), James II of Scotland (1430), Nigel Mansell (1953), Brian Epstein (1934), Robert II of Scotland (1316), and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Louis Wain ranks 7. Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), John Constable (1776), William Hogarth (1697), John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), and Joshua Reynolds (1723). After him are William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Richard Hamilton (1922), and Edmund Leighton (1852).

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