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Edwin Landseer

1802 - 1873

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. His best-known work is the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Landseer is the 252nd most popular painter (up from 1,370th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,558th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Edwin Landseer ranks 252 out of 2,023. Before him are Andrea Pozzo, Ivan Kramskoi, Lorenzo Lotto, Alexandre Cabanel, Baldassare Peruzzi, and Kees van Dongen. After him are Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Judith Leyster, István Sándorfi, Hans Holbein the Elder, and Sebastiano del Piombo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Edwin Landseer ranks 9. Before him are Niels Henrik Abel, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Elias Lönnrot, Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, and Miguel I of Portugal. After him are Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Alcide d'Orbigny, and Pavel Nakhimov. Among people deceased in 1873, Edwin Landseer ranks 10. Before him are Justus von Liebig, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alessandro Manzoni, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, and John of Saxony. After him are Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Louis Agassiz, and Fyodor Tyutchev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edwin Landseer ranks 648 out of 8,785. Before him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), George Graham (1944), Harold Macmillan (1894), Muriel Spark (1918), Donald Pleasence (1919), and Eduard Suess (1831). After him are John Bonham (1948), Graham Hill (1929), John Dowland (1563), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), and Matthew Lewis (1775).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Edwin Landseer ranks 8. Before him are Frederic Leighton (1830), William Hogarth (1697), John Constable (1776), John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), and John Collier (1850). After him are Joshua Reynolds (1723), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), and John Tenniel (1820).

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