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Francesco Hayez

1791 - 1882

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Francesco Hayez (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ˈaːjets]; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and portraits. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Hayez is the 222nd most popular painter (up from 262nd in 2019), the 789th most popular biography from Italy (up from 867th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Italian Painter.

Francesco Hayez is most famous for his paintings of Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress Josephine.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Francesco Hayez ranks 222 out of 2,023. Before him are Carl Bloch, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jan Gossaert, Nicholas Roerich, Andrea del Castagno, and Antonio del Pollaiolo. After him are Piero di Cosimo, Raoul Dufy, Petrus Christus, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jacopo Bellini, and Ferdinand Hodler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Francesco Hayez ranks 11. Before him are Théodore Géricault, James Buchanan, Carl Czerny, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Franz Bopp, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. After him are Johann Franz Encke, Franz Grillparzer, Eugène Scribe, Robert Knox, István Széchenyi, and Félix Savart. Among people deceased in 1882, Francesco Hayez ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur de Gobineau, Jesse James, Theodor Schwann, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After him are Bruno Bauer, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, Joseph Liouville, John Nelson Darby, and William Stanley Jevons.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Hayez ranks 789 out of 5,161. Before him are Andrea del Castagno (1420), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429), and Andrea Pisano (1290). After him are Tancred, King of Sicily (1138), Piero di Cosimo (1462), Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (1937), Poliziano (1454), Lentulus Batiatus (-200), and Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Francesco Hayez ranks 59. Before him are Agostino Carracci (1557), Rosso Fiorentino (1494), Francesco Guardi (1712), Luca Giordano (1634), Andrea del Castagno (1420), and Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429). After him are Piero di Cosimo (1462), Jacopo Bellini (1396), Domenichino (1581), Pisanello (1395), Jacopo Bassano (1510), and Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1488).

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