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Richard Wilson

1714 - 1782

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Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country". In December 1768 Wilson became one of the founder-members of the Royal Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Wilson has received more than 85,377 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Wilson is the 1,177th most popular painter (down from 1,046th in 2019), the 2,224th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,103rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Richard Wilson ranks 1,177 out of 2,023. Before him are Jankel Adler, Cornelis Bloemaert, Aleksander Gierymski, Giovanni Fattori, Gilbert Stuart, and Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval. After him are Mór Than, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Ugolino di Nerio, Taddeo di Bartolo, Tony Robert-Fleury, and Alfred Stevens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Richard Wilson ranks 20. Before him are Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Kosmas the Aetolian, George Whitefield, César-François Cassini de Thury, and Emer de Vattel. After him are René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Anna Morandi Manzolini, Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Suleiman II of Persia, and Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi. Among people deceased in 1782, Richard Wilson ranks 24. Before him are Hyder Ali, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Sava Petrović, and Daniel Solander. After him are Sadeq Khan Zand, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, Christine Kirch, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, José Cadalso, and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Wilson ranks 2,224 out of 8,785. Before him are Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863), William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Steve McManaman (1972), Roger Hunt (1938), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), and Frank Bridge (1879). After him are Joseph Fiennes (1970), Mark Williams (1959), William Robert Grove (1811), Rufus Sewell (1967), Richard Chancellor (1521), and Gerry Adams (1948).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Richard Wilson ranks 39. Before him are Walter Crane (1845), George Frederic Watts (1817), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), Frank Dicksee (1853), and E. H. Shepard (1879). After him are Bridget Riley (1931), Arthur Hughes (1832), George Dawe (1781), Herbert James Draper (1863), George Turner (1841), and Auguste Couder (1789).

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