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Romaine Brooks

1874 - 1970

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Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard; May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970) was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portraiture and used a subdued tonal palette keyed to the color gray. Brooks ignored contemporary artistic trends such as Cubism and Fauvism, drawing on her own original aesthetic inspired by the works of Charles Conder, Walter Sickert, and James McNeill Whistler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Romaine Brooks has received more than 483,942 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Romaine Brooks is the 1,077th most popular painter (down from 843rd in 2019), the 2,551st most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,135th in 2019) and the 216th most popular Italian Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Romaine Brooks ranks 1,077 out of 2,023. Before her are Barbara Kruger, Agnes Block, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Wilhelm Leibl, Plautilla Nelli, and Massimo Stanzione. After her are Moretto da Brescia, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Christiane Kubrick, and Ambrosius Benson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Romaine Brooks ranks 97. Before her are Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Jirō Minami, Eugen Fischer, François Coty, Joaquín Torres-García, and Constantin Ion Parhon. After her are Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, William Foulke, Lou Henry Hoover, Nicolae Rădescu, Rudolf Maister, and Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar. Among people deceased in 1970, Romaine Brooks ranks 113. Before her are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Marlen Haushofer, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, Marietta Blau, Fernand Crommelynck, and Hugh Dowding. After her are Alexander Gode, Unica Zürn, Félix Gaillard, Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Max Abegglen, and Nathan Alterman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Romaine Brooks ranks 2,551 out of 5,161. Before her are Felice della Rovere (1483), Justus (600), Angelo Bagnasco (1943), Antonio Barberini (1607), Plautilla Nelli (1524), and Massimo Stanzione (1585). After her are Giovanni Goria (1943), Moretto da Brescia (1498), Giovanni Lodetti (1942), Laura Martinozzi (1639), Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti (1846), and Gino Paoli (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Romaine Brooks ranks 216. Before her are Simone Peterzano (1540), Alberto Burri (1915), Barbara Longhi (1552), Davide Ghirlandaio (1452), Plautilla Nelli (1524), and Massimo Stanzione (1585). After her are Moretto da Brescia (1498), Bonaventura Berlinghieri (1210), Carlo Cignani (1628), Giovanni Battista Crespi (1573), Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716), and Antonio Tempesta (1555).

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