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Raja Ravi Varma

1848 - 1906

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Raja Ravi Varma (Malayalam: [ɾaːdʒaː ɾɐʋi ʋɐrm(ː)ɐ]) (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. Especially, he was notable for making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public, which greatly enhanced his reach and influence as a painter and public figure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raja Ravi Varma has received more than 3,834,126 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Raja Ravi Varma is the 712th most popular painter (down from 665th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from India (down from 211th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 712 out of 2,023. Before him are Moritz von Schwind, Paula Rego, Bruno Liljefors, Giovanna Garzoni, Victorine Meurent, and Wu Daozi. After him are Pedro Berruguete, Kolë Idromeno, Bettina Heinen-Ayech, Hans Hartung, Jan Mandijn, and Sébastien Bourdon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 46. Before him are Jules Bastien-Lepage, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Lothar von Trotha, Auguste Forel, Maximilian von Prittwitz, and Hermann von Eichhorn. After him are Kate Sheppard, Francis Darwin, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Henri Duparc, Anatoly Stessel, and Helen Allingham. Among people deceased in 1906, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 20. Before him are Frits Thaulow, Bartolomé Mitre, Jules Breton, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Paul Drude, and Eugène Carrière. After him are Mihály Zichy, Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, Joseph Monier, Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and Ernesto Cesàro.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 230 out of 1,861. Before him are Amrapali (-450), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Mir Taqi Mir (1723), and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905). After him are Dignāga (480), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Shah Alam II (1728), Jahandar Shah (1661), Aamir Khan (1965), and C. Rajagopalachari (1878).

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Among PAINTERS In India

Among painters born in India, Raja Ravi Varma ranks 1. After him are Abanindranath Tagore (1871), M. F. Husain (1915), Jamini Roy (1887), and Basawan (1560).

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