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Aubrey Beardsley

1872 - 1898

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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( BEERDZ-lee; 21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death from tuberculosis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aubrey Beardsley is the 773rd most popular writer (up from 868th in 2019), the 732nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 657th in 2019) and the 75th most popular British Writer.

Aubrey Beardsley is most famous for his illustrations of Oscar Wilde's Salome.

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Among writers, Aubrey Beardsley ranks 773 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernhard Schlink, Ban Gu, Pierre Boulle, Christoph Martin Wieland, Heliodorus of Emesa, and Agathias. After him are William Beckford, Henry Fielding, H. L. Mencken, Arrigo Boito, Anna Seghers, and Ninon de l'Enclos.

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Among people born in 1872, Aubrey Beardsley ranks 24. Before him are Maurice Gamelin, Sergei Diaghilev, Louis Blériot, Sri Aurobindo, Jože Plečnik, and Norman Angell. After him are Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Wilhelm Miklas, Helena Rubinstein, Georgy Chicherin, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, and Dionysios Kasdaglis. Among people deceased in 1898, Aubrey Beardsley ranks 15. Before him are Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, and Ferdinand Cohn. After him are Charles Garnier, Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, Eleanor Marx, John Newlands, and Heungseon Daewongun.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Aubrey Beardsley ranks 732 out of 8,785. Before him are Albert Finney (1936), Geoffrey Hinton (1947), William Shockley (1910), George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859), James Edward Smith (1759), and Herbert C. Brown (1912). After him are Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Robert II of Scotland (1316), William Beckford (1760), Lionel Robbins (1898), Henry Fielding (1707), and Erasmus Darwin (1731).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Aubrey Beardsley ranks 75. Before him are Matthew Lewis (1775), Patrick White (1912), Robert Burton (1577), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), John le Carré (1931), and Edgar Wallace (1875). After him are William Beckford (1760), Henry Fielding (1707), Ben Jonson (1572), Jerome K. Jerome (1859), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), and John Bunyan (1628).

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