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Walter Crane

1845 - 1915

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Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century. Crane's work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Crane has received more than 395,081 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Walter Crane is the 995th most popular painter (down from 797th in 2019), the 1,889th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,636th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Painter.

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  • 400k

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  • 54.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Walter Crane ranks 995 out of 2,023. Before him are Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Max Slevogt, Władysław Podkowiński, Anton Janša, Marco Basaiti, and Caspar van Wittel. After him are Petr Brandl, Mario Minniti, Abanindranath Tagore, Hans von Marées, Lee Krasner, and Huang Tingjian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Walter Crane ranks 43. Before him are Ödön Lechner, Harriet Backer, Eugène Grasset, Émile Baudot, Elihu Root, and Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Jan Czerski, Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, William, Prince of Wied, Jules Guesde, Àngel Guimerà, and Friedrich Martens. Among people deceased in 1915, Walter Crane ranks 53. Before him are Carlos Finlay, Pierre-Émile Martin, Karl Lamprecht, Otto Weddigen, Johann Joseph Abert, and Józef Brandt. After him are Béla Kiss, Gabriel von Max, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Theodor Boveri, Inoue Kaoru, and Hugo Schiff.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Walter Crane ranks 1,889 out of 8,785. Before him are William Playfair (1759), Clive Burr (1957), Donald Crisp (1882), David Lodge (1935), John Smyth (1570), and Ray Winstone (1957). After him are Ine of Wessex (700), Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776), Ouida (1839), John Aubrey (1626), Ælle of Sussex (500), and Nell Gwyn (1650).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Walter Crane ranks 33. Before him are James Gillray (1756), Pieter de Molijn (1595), David Roberts (1796), Matthew Paris (1200), Vanessa Bell (1879), and Roger Fry (1866). After him are George Frederic Watts (1817), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), Frank Dicksee (1853), E. H. Shepard (1879), and Richard Wilson (1714).

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