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Randolph Caldecott

1846 - 1886

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Randolph Caldecott ( KAWL-də-kot; 22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Randolph Caldecott has received more than 194,484 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Randolph Caldecott is the 1,884th most popular painter (down from 1,625th in 2019), the 4,424th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,171st in 2019) and the 101st most popular British Painter.

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  • 45.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Randolph Caldecott ranks 1,884 out of 2,023. Before him are Maxfield Parrish, Maurice Prendergast, Morten Müller, Paul Sandby, James Collinson, and Jean Jacoby. After him are Thomas Sully, L. S. Lowry, Barbara Bodichon, Georg Holtzendorff, Augustus John, and William Stanley Haseltine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Randolph Caldecott ranks 109. Before him are Rose Cleveland, Eugen Baumann, Marco Aurelio Soto, Benigno Ferreira, Nikolay Umov, and Federico Chueca. After him are Maksymilian Gierymski, Edward S. Holden, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Ira Remsen, Joseph B. Foraker, and Michael Davitt. Among people deceased in 1886, Randolph Caldecott ranks 55. Before him are Tomás Villalba, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Richard Maack, Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Samuel J. Tilden, and Théodore Aubanel. After him are Henry Hobson Richardson, Charles Francis Adams Sr., Rebecca Solomon, David Rice Atchison, and Horatio Seymour.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Randolph Caldecott ranks 4,424 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Nuttall (1786), Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801), Richard Garriott (1961), Abraham Cowley (1618), Jeremy Spencer (1948), and Richard Sinclair (1948). After him are Susan Haack (1945), Thomas Sully (1783), Leander Starr Jameson (1853), Polly Walker (1966), Edgar Evans (1876), and Keir Hardie (1856).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Randolph Caldecott ranks 101. Before him are William Dobson (1610), Allen Jones (1937), Ben Nicholson (1894), David Cox (1783), Paul Sandby (1725), and James Collinson (1825). After him are Thomas Sully (1783), L. S. Lowry (1887), Barbara Bodichon (1827), Augustus John (1878), Gerald Scarfe (1936), and Paul Nash (1889).

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