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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 82,144 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richard Wilson is the 1,047th most popular painter (down from 946th in 2019), the 2,108th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,942nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Painter.

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  • 23

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Richard Wilson ranks 1,047 out of 1,421. Before him are Anna Bilińska, Hans von Marées, Maria Prymachenko, Maria Wodzińska, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, and Paul Gavarni. After him are Pieter Pourbus, Joachim Beuckelaer, Moretto da Brescia, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Dirck Hals, and Allaert van Everdingen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Richard Wilson ranks 19. Before him are Kristijonas Donelaitis, George Whitefield, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Emer de Vattel, and César-François Cassini de Thury. After him are Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Suleiman II of Persia, Gottfried August Homilius, Anna Morandi Manzolini, and Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov. Among people deceased in 1782, Richard Wilson ranks 21. Before him are Hyder Ali, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, and Sava Petrović. After him are Daniel Solander, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, and Sadeq Khan Zand.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Wilson ranks 2,108 out of 7,765. Before him are Albert Austin (1881), Paul Freeman (1943), David Gemmell (1948), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), June Whitfield (1925), and James Purefoy (1964). After him are William Aiton (1731), Guy Edwards (1942), Mark Williams (1959), Thomas Wright (1711), John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1462), and Barbara Steele (1937).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Richard Wilson ranks 35. Before him are James Gillray (1756), Vanessa Bell (1879), Frank Dicksee (1853), George Frederic Watts (1817), Arthur Hughes (1832), and Barbara Hepworth (1903). After him are Pieter de Molijn (1595), George Romney (1734), Matthew Paris (1200), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), Auguste Couder (1789), and Roger Fry (1866).

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