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Thomas Lawrence

1769 - 1830

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Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Lawrence has received more than 472,025 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Thomas Lawrence is the 475th most popular painter (up from 523rd in 2019), the 966th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,105th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Thomas Lawrence ranks 475 out of 2,023. Before him are Melozzo da Forlì, Abraham Brueghel, Louise Abbéma, Mariotto Albertinelli, Hannah Höch, and Balthasar van der Ast. After him are Jean Clouet, Lyubov Popova, Marià Fortuny, André Lhote, Frits Thaulow, and Alesso Baldovinetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Thomas Lawrence ranks 12. Before him are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Jean Lannes, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ivan Krylov, and André-Jacques Garnerin. After him are Ivan Kotliarevsky, William Smith, Józef Elsner, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Lotf Ali Khan, and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh. Among people deceased in 1830, Thomas Lawrence ranks 11. Before him are Adam Weishaupt, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Benjamin Constant, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, and Antonio José de Sucre. After him are Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Lawrence ranks 966 out of 8,785. Before him are Shane MacGowan (1957), Terry Jones (1942), Alan Moore (1953), Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Natasha Richardson (1963), and Thomas Chatterton (1752). After him are Ida Noddack (1896), Alma Reville (1899), John Boyd Orr (1880), James Jeans (1877), Matthew Lewis (1775), and Victoria Beckham (1974).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Thomas Lawrence ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), and Thomas Cole (1801). After him are Richard Hamilton (1922), Edmund Leighton (1852), John Tenniel (1820), Frederic Leighton (1830), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), and John William Godward (1861).

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