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William Powell Frith

1819 - 1909

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William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleeping Model as his Diploma work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Powell Frith has received more than 175,862 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William Powell Frith is the 1,835th most popular painter (down from 1,584th in 2019), the 3,967th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,742nd in 2019) and the 90th most popular British Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, William Powell Frith ranks 1,835 out of 2,023. Before him are Basawan, Wang Shimin, Marsden Hartley, Lev Lagorio, Joseph Stella, and Ásgrímur Jónsson. After him are Blanka Teleki, Kiki Kogelnik, Thomas Hudson, Thomas Hart Benton, Oldřich Lajsek, and Kiki Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, William Powell Frith ranks 87. Before him are Klaus Groth, Joseph-Alfred Serret, James Spriggs Payne, Charles Piazzi Smyth, José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, and Julia Ward Howe. After him are Ion Emanuel Florescu, Joaquín Jovellar y Soler, William Muir, Joseph Bazalgette, Yuri Samarin, and Yakov Polonsky. Among people deceased in 1909, William Powell Frith ranks 87. Before him are Otto Sinding, Karel Halíř, Nicolaas Pierson, Hugo Egmont Hørring, Furqat, and Miguel Antonio Caro. After him are Carl Bolle, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Petre S. Aurelian, Peter Lesgaft, Francis Marion Crawford, and Lina Morgenstern.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Powell Frith ranks 3,967 out of 8,785. Before him are John André (1750), Meave Leakey (1942), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Isaac Roberts (1829), Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), and Horace Lamb (1849). After him are Gerald Finzi (1901), Maxim (1967), Richard J. Evans (1947), Boyd Alexander (1873), Louis Tomlinson (1991), and David James (1970).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, William Powell Frith ranks 90. Before him are Roger Dean (1944), Peter Scott (1909), Peter Blake (1932), Frederick Sandys (1829), Peter Doig (1959), and Edwin Long (1829). After him are Thomas Hudson (1701), Thomas Phillips (1770), George Clausen (1852), Samuel Palmer (1805), William Dobson (1610), and Allen Jones (1937).

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