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Winslow Homer

1836 - 1910

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Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Winslow Homer has received more than 1,387,082 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Winslow Homer is the 1,027th most popular painter (down from 785th in 2019), the 3,330th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,699th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Painter.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Winslow Homer ranks 1,027 out of 2,023. Before him are Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Eero Järnefelt, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Christoph Amberger, Antoine Pesne, and Ludwig Richter. After him are Franz Kline, Jean-Louis Forain, Li Cheng, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Laurent de La Hyre, and Adriaen van der Werff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Winslow Homer ranks 37. Before him are Pauline von Metternich, Georges Leclanché, Ding Ruchang, Jan Gotlib Bloch, Antônio Carlos Gomes, and Matsudaira Katamori. After him are Piet Cronjé, Juliette Adam, Daniel Peter, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, and Inoue Kaoru. Among people deceased in 1910, Winslow Homer ranks 51. Before him are Maria Konopnicka, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Mary Baker Eddy, Gustave Moynier, Wilhelm Raabe, and Hugo Erdmann. After him are Michele Rua, Princess Marie of the Netherlands, Hormuzd Rassam, Emmanuel Frémiet, William Graham Sumner, and Paolo Mantegazza.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Winslow Homer ranks 3,330 out of 20,380. Before him are Patty Hearst (1954), William Conrad (1920), Robert Gould Shaw (1837), Doris Miller (1919), Neil Simon (1927), and Orson Scott Card (1951). After him are Franz Kline (1910), Linda Nochlin (1931), David Butler (1894), John DeLorean (1925), Frank Welker (1946), and Eric Carle (1929).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Winslow Homer ranks 40. Before him are Grandma Moses (1860), Allan Kaprow (1927), Will Sampson (1933), James Turrell (1943), Lee Krasner (1908), and Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823). After him are Franz Kline (1910), Benjamin West (1738), Evel Knievel (1938), Barbara Kruger (1945), Gilbert Stuart (1755), and Richard Estes (1932).

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