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Jenny Saville

1970 - Today

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Jennifer Anne Saville (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary English painter and an original member of the Young British Artists. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England and she is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville has been credited with originating a new and challenging method of painting the female nude and reinventing figure painting for contemporary art. Some paintings are of small dimensions, while other are of much larger scale. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Jenny Saville is the 2,013th most popular painter (up from 2,014th in 2024), the 6,774th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,753rd in 2019) and the 137th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jenny Saville ranks 2,014 out of 2,023. Before her are William Hart, Thomas Kinkade, Lauren Faust, Mikhail Evstafiev, Leslie Ward, Kara Walker, and Selma Gürbüz. After her are Viktor Lyapkalo, Laurel Holloman, JR, Shamsia Hassani, and Julie Mehretu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Jenny Saville ranks 758. Before her are Toni Jiménez, Audra McDonald, Hiroshi Saito, Nicole Sullivan, Antoni Lima, and Irv Gotti. After her are Harini Amarasuriya, Shinsuke Shiotani, David Adams, Karoline Krüger, Vincent Rijmen, and Rene Liu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jenny Saville ranks 6,782 out of 8,785. Before her are Jessie Cave (1987), Nigel Clough (1966), Lorne Balfe (1976), Wayne Bridge (1980), Nigel Winterburn (1963), Ronnie Corbett (1930), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (1976), David Edwards (1986), Miles Millar (1967), Alex Greenwood (1993), Jonathan Miller (1934), and Mark Bunn (1984).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Jenny Saville ranks 137. Before her are Stephen Wiltshire (1974), Thomas Sully (1783), Marc Quinn (1964), Stanley Spencer (1891), William Hart (1823), and Leslie Ward (1851). After her are Alfred E. Goodey (1878), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (1977), and Chris Ofili (1968).

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