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Charles Gleyre

1806 - 1874

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Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre (2 May 1806 – 5 May 1874), was a Swiss artist who was a resident in France from an early age. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Henry-Lionel Brioux, Jean-Léon Gérôme, George du Maurier, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Toulmouche, and James McNeill Whistler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Gleyre is the 343rd most popular painter (up from 545th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 142nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Charles Gleyre ranks 343 out of 2,023. Before him are Aelbert Cuyp, Carlo Crivelli, Adriaen van Ostade, Bernardino Luini, Paul Sérusier, and Claude Joseph Vernet. After him are Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Alessandro Allori, Gabriël Metsu, Frans Snyders, John Singer Sargent, and Marianne von Werefkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Charles Gleyre ranks 11. Before him are Augustus De Morgan, Emilia Plater, Catherine Labouré, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. After him are Omar Pasha, William Webb Ellis, Duchenne de Boulogne, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Among people deceased in 1874, Charles Gleyre ranks 8. Before him are Millard Fillmore, Jules Michelet, Howard Staunton, Adolphe Quetelet, François Guizot, and David Strauss. After him are Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Johann Philipp Reis, Josiah Warren, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Peter Cornelius, and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Charles Gleyre ranks 96 out of 1,015. Before him are Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Jean Tinguely (1925), and Jost Bürgi (1552). After him are Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Anna Göldi (1734), François Vatel (1631), Carla Del Ponte (1947), and Brother Roger (1915).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Charles Gleyre ranks 9. Before him are Angelica Kauffman (1741), Henry Fuseli (1741), Johannes Itten (1888), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), and H. R. Giger (1940). After him are Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), Théophile Steinlen (1859), and Anton Graff (1736).

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