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Pedro Américo

1843 - 1905

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Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo (29 April 1843 – 7 October 1905) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, scientist, art theorist, essayist, philosopher, politician and professor, but is best remembered as one of the most important academic painters in Brazil, leaving works of national impact. From an early age he showed an inclination towards the arts, being considered a child prodigy. At a very young age, he participated as a draftsman on an expedition of naturalists through the Brazilian northeast, and received government support to study at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Américo has received more than 101,849 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro Américo is the 1,031st most popular painter (down from 984th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 222nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Brazilian Painter.

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Among painters, Pedro Américo ranks 1,031 out of 1,421. Before him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Barbara Hepworth, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Caesar van Everdingen, Francesco Furini, and Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval. After him are Joaquín Torres-García, Perino del Vaga, Franz Kline, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Maso di Banco, and Philip de László.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Pedro Américo ranks 48. Before him are Adelina Patti, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Christina Nilsson, Frederick Abberline, and Odoardo Beccari. After him are Émile Levassor, Kliment Timiryazev, Otto Kuntze, Johannes Schmidt, Fyodor Stravinsky, and Saigō Jūdō. Among people deceased in 1905, Pedro Américo ranks 43. Before him are Franz Overbeck, Josip Belušić, Siegfried Bing, Debendranath Tagore, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Clément Juglar. After him are Meyer Guggenheim, Julius Oppert, Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz, Máximo Gómez, Theodore Thomas, and Amalie Skram.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Pedro Américo ranks 218 out of 2,067. Before him are Sebastião Lazaroni (1950), José de Alencar (1829), Julinho (1929), José Linhares (1886), Adriana Lima (1981), and Gisele Bündchen (1980). After him are Thiago Motta (1982), Zequinha de Abreu (1880), Ronald Golias (1929), Cláudio Hummes (1934), José Bonifácio de Andrada (1763), and Philippe Coutinho (1992).

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Among PAINTERS In Brazil

Among painters born in Brazil, Pedro Américo ranks 3. Before him are Tarsila do Amaral (1886) and Candido Portinari (1903). After him are José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1850), Anita Malfatti (1889), Victor Meirelles (1832), Antônio Parreiras (1860), Carlos Latuff (1968), and Georgina de Albuquerque (1885).

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