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Mary Beale

1633 - 1699

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Mary Beale (née Cradock) (1633–1699) was an English portrait painter. She was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London. Beale became the main financial provider for her family through her professional work – a career she maintained from 1670/71 to the 1690s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Beale has received more than 133,410 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary Beale is the 1,554th most popular painter (down from 1,362nd in 2019), the 2,942nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,828th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Mary Beale ranks 1,554 out of 2,023. Before her are Maria Lassnig, Theodor Philipsen, L. A. Ring, Willi Baumeister, Ad Reinhardt, and Georg Schrimpf. After her are Apollinary Vasnetsov, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, Francesco Squarcione, Albert Chmielowski, Alphonse Legros, and Kikuchi Yōsai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1633, Mary Beale ranks 18. Before her are Arsenije III Čarnojević, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Willem Drost, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Geminiano Montanari, and Jean de Thévenot.  Among people deceased in 1699, Mary Beale ranks 14. Before her are Marco d'Aviano, Lucrezia Barberini, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, François Le Fort, Patrick Gordon, and Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne. After her is Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Beale ranks 2,942 out of 8,785. Before her are Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1621), Ronald Neame (1911), Geoffrey Howe (1926), Teresa Ann Savoy (1955), Steven Knight (1959), and Anabella Drummond (1350). After her are Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany (1426), Phil Taylor (1960), Matthew Garber (1956), Shirley Henderson (1965), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987), and Alan Ball Jr. (1945).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Mary Beale ranks 59. Before her are Effie Gray (1828), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Henry Salt (1780), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), John Michael Wright (1617), and Graham Sutherland (1903). After her are Richard Dadd (1817), Henry Raeburn (1756), Allan Ramsay (1713), Thomas Moran (1837), Dora Carrington (1893), and Duncan Grant (1885).

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