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Salomon Gessner

1730 - 1788

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Salomon Gessner (1 April 1730 – 2 March 1788) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist, government official, newspaper publisher, and poet, best known in the latter instance for his Idylls. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salomon Gessner has received more than 40,983 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Salomon Gessner is the 1,216th most popular painter (down from 1,105th in 2019), the 323rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 290th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Salomon Gessner ranks 1,216 out of 2,023. Before him are Erik Werenskiold, Benedetto Luti, Nicolas Mignard, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, and Albrecht Adam. After him are Alexey Venetsianov, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Georg Pencz, Fritz von Uhde, Franciszek Smuglewicz, and Tina Blau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Salomon Gessner ranks 24. Before him are Otto Friedrich Müller, Augustin Pajou, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Koca Yusuf Pasha, and William Hudson. After him are Henry Clinton, Sophie von La Roche, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal, Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Daniel Carroll. Among people deceased in 1788, Salomon Gessner ranks 22. Before him are Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Pierre André de Suffren, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, and Charles Wesley. After him are Francesco Zuccarelli, Mary Delany, Juan Bautista de Anza, John Whitehurst, and Benjamin Wilson.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Salomon Gessner ranks 323 out of 1,015. Before him are Pierre Tirard (1827), Paul Wild (1925), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Maurice Bavaud (1916), Pierre Musy (1910), and Gustave Ador (1845). After him are Paul Sacher (1906), Luigi Taveri (1929), Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942), Moritz Leuenberger (1946), Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808), and Marc Surer (1951).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Salomon Gessner ranks 23. Before him are Anton Graff (1736), Giovanni Giacometti (1868), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Alexandre Calame (1810), Adolf Wölfli (1864), and Cuno Amiet (1868). After him are Bertha Wegmann (1847), Urs Graf (1485), Hans Erni (1909), Antonio Ciseri (1821), Aloïse Corbaz (1886), and Pier Francesco Mola (1612).

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