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George Catlin

1796 - 1872

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George Catlin ( KAT-lin; July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Catlin is the 1,410th most popular painter (up from 1,444th in 2019), the 5,414th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,876th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Painter.

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Among painters, George Catlin ranks 1,410 out of 2,023. Before him are George Bellows, Uemura Shōen, Konstantin Savitsky, Karin Bergöö Larsson, Eugen Schüfftan, and Charles-Antoine Coypel. After him are Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Inji Aflatoun, Sin Yun-bok, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Mary Beale, and Paul Renner.

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Among people born in 1796, George Catlin ranks 42. Before him are Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Horace Mann, Fernán Caballero, Manto Mavrogenous, Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Antun Mihanović. After him are Juan Esteban Pedernera, Anton Pann, Pyotr Anjou, Nikolai Turczaninow, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, and Franz von Schober. Among people deceased in 1872, George Catlin ranks 47. Before him are Pavel Kiselyov, Frederick Denison Maurice, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Jean-Marie Duhamel. After him are Martin Ohm, Edwin Atherstone, Michel Carré, Henry Halleck, Dimitrija Demeter, and Franz Xaver Fieber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Catlin ranks 5,414 out of 20,380. Before him are B.o.B. (1988), Keith David (1956), Charles David Keeling (1928), Harry Guardino (1925), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), and Mae Jemison (1956). After him are Doyle Brunson (1933), Cecil Taylor (1929), Black Elk (1863), Howard Stern (1954), Courtney Hodges (1887), and Chelsea Field (1957).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, George Catlin ranks 58. Before him are John Singleton Copley (1738), Lilla Cabot Perry (1848), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), Joseph Cornell (1903), Robert Motherwell (1915), and George Bellows (1882). After him are John Trumbull (1756), Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823), Sam Francis (1923), Charles Demuth (1883), Robert Ryman (1930), and Kenneth Noland (1924).

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