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Richard Dadd

1817 - 1886

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Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Dadd has received more than 566,055 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Richard Dadd is the 1,568th most popular painter (down from 1,224th in 2019), the 3,000th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,498th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Richard Dadds by language

Over the past year Richard Dadd has had the most page views in the with 69,191 views, followed by Russian (8,098), and Japanese (4,851). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (95.62%), Armenian (43.56%), and Esperanto (18.52%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Richard Dadd ranks 1,568 out of 2,023. Before him are Anita Malfatti, Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst, Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp, Viggo Johansen, Jan van Bijlert, and Bertalan Székely. After him are Artur Grottger, Pavel Fedotov, Ogata Kenzan, Daniel Gran, Anna Palm de Rosa, and Henri Harpignies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Richard Dadd ranks 64. Before him are Konstantin Aksakov, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Jung Bahadur Rana, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, and Charles Dancla. After him are Ernest Hébert, José María Ventura Casas, Florian Ceynowa, Alexandros Koumoundouros, Heinrich von Sybel, and Alfred Francis Russell. Among people deceased in 1886, Richard Dadd ranks 41. Before him are Paul Bert, Pyotr Tkachev, Juan Esteban Pedernera, Leopold Zunz, Jules Malou, and Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt. After him are Edmond Laguerre, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Zinovios Valvis, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Albert Küchler, and Gustav Fischer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Dadd ranks 3,000 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers (1405), Piers Morgan (1965), Ronald Lacey (1935), Charles Crichton (1910), Michael Winner (1935), and Jack Clayton (1921). After him are Derek Bell (1941), William Langland (1332), Rowland Hill (1795), Timothy Laurence (1955), Andy Bell (1964), and Richard Hooker (1554).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Richard Dadd ranks 60. Before him are Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Henry Salt (1780), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), John Michael Wright (1617), Graham Sutherland (1903), and Mary Beale (1633). After him are Henry Raeburn (1756), Allan Ramsay (1713), Thomas Moran (1837), Dora Carrington (1893), Duncan Grant (1885), and Thomas Bewick (1753).

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