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Thomas Eakins

1844 - 1916

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Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists. For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Eakins has received more than 789,118 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Eakins is the 672nd most popular painter (up from 752nd in 2019), the 2,141st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,563rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Painter.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Thomas Eakins ranks 672 out of 2,023. Before him are Francesco Solimena, Dong Qichang, Pierre Auguste Cot, Frans Hogenberg, Ignacio Zuloaga, and Juan Carreño de Miranda. After him are Pieter van Laer, Adrien Manglard, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Karl von Piloty, Maurycy Gottlieb, and François Lemoyne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Thomas Eakins ranks 33. Before him are Abdur Rahman Khan, Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Engler, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Sophia Tolstaya, and Saitō Hajime. After him are Henry J. Heinz, Victorine Meurent, William Robert Brooks, Mihály Munkácsy, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Édouard Branly. Among people deceased in 1916, Thomas Eakins ranks 57. Before him are August Leskien, Max Immelmann, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Petar Kočić, and Paolo Tosti. After him are Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Oswald Boelcke, Thibaw Min, Alice Ball, and Isa Boletini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Eakins ranks 2,141 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Bull (1924), Vera Farmiga (1973), Roger Ailes (1940), Robert Hansen (1939), Bernard Malamud (1914), and Lance Reddick (1962). After him are James J. Braddock (1905), Henry J. Heinz (1844), Alexander Shulgin (1925), John O'Keefe (1939), Jackie Jackson (1951), and Karen Uhlenbeck (1942).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Thomas Eakins ranks 21. Before him are Sol LeWitt (1928), Margaret Keane (1927), Jasper Johns (1930), Frank Stella (1936), Carl Andre (1935), and John Frederick Kensett (1816). After him are Cy Twombly (1928), Julian Schnabel (1951), Bruce Nauman (1941), Donald Judd (1928), Cindy Sherman (1954), and Dorothea Tanning (1910).

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