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William Dobson

1610 - 1646

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William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised); 28 October 1646 (buried)) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Dobson has received more than 134,509 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William Dobson is the 1,865th most popular painter (down from 1,623rd in 2019), the 4,203rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,152nd in 2019) and the 95th most popular British Painter.

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  • 53.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, William Dobson ranks 1,865 out of 2,023. Before him are Samuel Palmer, Lucebert, Antônio Parreiras, Edward Henry Potthast, Hans Scherfig, and Thomas Pollock Anshutz. After him are Ferdinand Bauer, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Charles R. Knight, Carmen Herrera, Arthur Dove, and Allen Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, William Dobson ranks 23. Before him are Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Abraham Duquesne, Jan Miense Molenaer, Huang Zongxi, Albert Eckhout, and Georg Marcgrave.  Among people deceased in 1646, William Dobson ranks 16. Before him are Hosokawa Tadaoki, Francesco Furini, Margherita Aldobrandini, Antonio Marcello Barberini, Elias Holl, and Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Dobson ranks 4,203 out of 8,785. Before him are William Nicol (1770), Humza Yousaf (1985), George Montagu (1751), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Brandon Carter (1942), and Ernest Mangnall (1866). After him are Ray Thomas (1941), Raymond Briggs (1934), Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), Chad of Mercia (634), Steven Moffat (1961), and John Richardson (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, William Dobson ranks 95. Before him are Edwin Long (1829), William Powell Frith (1819), Thomas Hudson (1701), Thomas Phillips (1770), George Clausen (1852), and Samuel Palmer (1805). After him are Allen Jones (1937), Ben Nicholson (1894), David Cox (1783), Paul Sandby (1725), James Collinson (1825), and Randolph Caldecott (1846).

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