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Thomas Gainsborough

18th-century English portrait and landscape painter

1727 - 1788

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His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2024). Thomas Gainsborough is the 205th most popular painter (up from 221st in 2024), the 524th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 455th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Painter.

Thomas Gainsborough is most famous for his portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

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Thomas Gainsborough ranks #6 of 140 Painters born in United Kingdom, inside the top 5% of that cohort.

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Thomas Gainsborough's biography appears in 64 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 96% of all Painters.

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Among Painters

Among painters, Thomas Gainsborough ranks 205 out of 2,055. Before him are Niko Pirosmani, Maurice Utrillo, Johannes Itten, Han van Meegeren, Lucas Cranach the Younger, and Eugène Boudin. After him are Hendrik Goltzius, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Rosso Fiorentino, Charles-François Daubigny, and Francesco Guardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Thomas Gainsborough ranks 3. Before him are Louise Élisabeth of France, and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. After him are Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Jean-Georges Noverre, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Empress Xiaoyichun, Henriette of France, Michel Adanson, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena. Among people deceased in 1788, Thomas Gainsborough ranks 4. Before him are Charles III of Spain, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. After him are Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Charles Edward Stuart, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Georg Hamann, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, José, Prince of Brazil, and Infante Gabriel of Spain.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Gainsborough ranks 524 out of 9,870. Before him are Colin Firth (1960), Alan Parker (1944), Frederick Forsyth (1938), Richard Hughes (1975), Richard Owen (1804), and John Donne (1572). After him are Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984), Kenny Baker (1934), Ian Holm (1931), Theresa May (1956), David Brewster (1781), and Cynric (450).

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Among Painters In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Thomas Gainsborough ranks 6. Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), Frederic Leighton (1830), William Hogarth (1697), John Constable (1776), and John Everett Millais (1829). After him are John Collier (1850), Edwin Landseer (1802), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Louis Wain (1860), and William Holman Hunt (1827).

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