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Victor Meirelles

1832 - 1903

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Victor Meirelles de Lima (18 August 1832 – 22 February 1903) was a Brazilian painter and teacher who is best known for his works relating to his nation's culture and history. From humble origins, his talent was soon recognized, being admitted as a student at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He specialized in the genre of history painting, and upon winning the Academy's Foreign Travel Award, he spent several years training in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Meirelles has received more than 61,593 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Victor Meirelles is the 1,476th most popular painter (down from 1,310th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Brazil (up from 467th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Brazilian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Victor Meirelles ranks 1,476 out of 1,421. Before him are Karel Škréta, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Maurice Boitel, Henry Scott Tuke, and Johann Köler. After him are Johan Zoffany, Fyodor Vasilyev, Karl Schorn, Wilhelm Bendz, Ben Vautier, and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Victor Meirelles ranks 71. Before him are Boston Corbett, Nikiforos Lytras, Miroslav Tyrš, Juan Montalvo, Léon Gautier, and Carl Neumann. After him are Horatio Alger, Eugenio Montero Ríos, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Edward Newton, Lucretia Garfield, and William Thomas Blanford. Among people deceased in 1903, Victor Meirelles ranks 59. Before him are Konstantinos Paspatis, Henri Alexis Brialmont, George Gissing, Girolamo de Rada, Gustav Radde, and Paul Du Chaillu. After him are Petko Karavelov, Robert Planquette, Nicolaas Beets, František Ladislav Rieger, István Bittó, and Gaspar Núñez de Arce.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Victor Meirelles ranks 432 out of 2,067. Before him are Laura Cardoso (1927), Marina Silva (1958), Aracy Balabanian (1940), Murilo Benício (1971), Alfredo II (1920), and Alice Braga (1983). After him are Anderson Silva (1975), Luiz Luz (1909), Araken Patusca (1905), Nélida Piñon (1937), Ricardo Ferretti (1954), and Pixinguinha (1897).

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Among PAINTERS In Brazil

Among painters born in Brazil, Victor Meirelles ranks 6. Before him are Tarsila do Amaral (1886), Candido Portinari (1903), Pedro Américo (1843), José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1850), and Anita Malfatti (1889). After him are Antônio Parreiras (1860), Carlos Latuff (1968), and Georgina de Albuquerque (1885).

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