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Gwen John

1876 - 1939

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Gwendolen Gwen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although in her lifetime, John's work was overshadowed by that of her brother Augustus and her mentor and lover Auguste Rodin, awareness and esteem for John's artistic contributions has grown considerably since her death. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gwen John is the 1,648th most popular painter (up from 1,719th in 2019), the 3,468th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,401st in 2019) and the 71st most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gwen John ranks 1,648 out of 2,023. Before her are Regina Ghazaryan, Fyodor Vasilyev, Josef Abel, Childe Hassam, Simon Bening, and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. After her are Artur Grottger, Julian Fałat, William Orpen, Paul Kane, Illarion Pryanishnikov, and Hashimoto Gahō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Gwen John ranks 151. Before her are John Mulcahy, Hippolyte Aucouturier, Olav Duun, Walter Burley Griffin, Ellsworth Huntington, and Safiya Zaghloul. After her are Stan Rowley, Harriet Brooks, Alaiza Pashkevich, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Albert Bruce Jackson, and Ameen Rihani. Among people deceased in 1939, Gwen John ranks 116. Before her are Aleksander Brückner, Eulalio Gutiérrez, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Polina Osipenko, Olav Duun, and Alberto Palacio. After her are Halil Pasha, Vladislav Khodasevich, Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid, Oton Iveković, Fausto dos Santos, and Alexander Kanoldt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gwen John ranks 3,469 out of 8,785. Before her are Cyril Scott (1879), Nicol Williamson (1936), John Aston Jr. (1947), Tommy Cooper (1921), Mark Wright (1963), and John Thaw (1942). After her are Alan Cumming (1965), Rory McCann (1969), Gregor MacGregor (1786), Leonard Meredith (1882), Mick Hucknall (1960), and Emma Bunton (1976).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Gwen John ranks 71. Before her are Richard Dadd (1817), Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852), Allan Ramsay (1713), David Allan (1744), Thomas Bewick (1753), and Duncan Grant (1885). After her are Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Thomas Moran (1837), Margaret Mee (1909), Graham Sutherland (1903), Henry Salt (1780), and Clive Bell (1881).

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