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Nicolai Abildgaard

1743 - 1809

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Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (11 September 1743 – 4 June 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolai Abildgaard has received more than 77,625 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Nicolai Abildgaard is the 349th most popular painter (up from 410th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 126th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Painter.

Nicolaus Abildgaard is most famous for his painting of the Danish king, Christian VII, and his queen, Caroline Mathilde.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Nicolai Abildgaard ranks 349 out of 1,421. Before him are Pierre Mignard, Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, Eva Gonzalès, Federico Barocci, Maarten van Heemskerck, and Adriaen Brouwer. After him are Giuseppe Castiglione, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Lovis Corinth, Koloman Moser, Vasily Perov, and Ludovico Carracci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Nicolai Abildgaard ranks 14. Before him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Toussaint Louverture, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Edmund Cartwright. After him are René Just Haüy, William I, Elector of Hesse, Gavrila Derzhavin, Joseph Banks, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova. Among people deceased in 1809, Nicolai Abildgaard ranks 5. Before him are Joseph Haydn, Jean Lannes, Thomas Paine, and Rama I. After him are Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, François Laurent d'Arlandes, August Ludwig von Schlözer, and Matthew Boulton.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nicolai Abildgaard ranks 111 out of 893. Before him are Jens Christian Skou (1918), Bille August (1948), Niels Gade (1817), Hans Christian Gram (1853), Harald Bohr (1887), and Sophia Brahe (1556). After him are Allan Simonsen (1952), Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858), Boetius of Dacia (1240), and Gudfred (800).

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Among PAINTERS In Denmark

Among painters born in Denmark, Nicolai Abildgaard ranks 5. Before him are Lili Elbe (1882), Gerda Wegener (1886), Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (1656), and Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864). After him are Anna Ancher (1859), Kurt Westergaard (1935), Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Carl Bloch (1834), Asger Jorn (1914), and Jens Juel (1745).

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