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John Ruskin

1819 - 1900

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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth. Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Ruskin is the most popular critic, the 438th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 368th in 2019) and the most popular British Critic.

John Ruskin was a Victorian-era art critic and social thinker. He is best known for his book Modern Painters, which was published in three volumes between 1843 and 1860.

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Among critics, John Ruskin ranks 1 out of 9. After him are Vladimir Propp, Vissarion Belinsky, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Roger Ebert, Rosalind E. Krauss, Susanna Amatuni, Vincent Canby, and Todd McCarthy.

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Among people born in 1819, John Ruskin ranks 14. Before him are Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, Maria II of Portugal, and John Couch Adams. After him are Franz von Suppé, George Eliot, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Annibale de Gasparis, Stanisław Moniuszko, and George V of Hanover. Among people deceased in 1900, John Ruskin ranks 8. Before him are Oscar Wilde, Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Steinitz, Max Müller, Umberto I of Italy, and Ivan Aivazovsky. After him are Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John Sherman, Wilhelm Liebknecht, and Emil Škoda.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, John Ruskin ranks 438 out of 8,785. Before him are John Deacon (1951), Roger Williams (1603), Morrissey (1959), David Suchet (1946), Thomas Harriot (1560), and Halford Mackinder (1861). After him are John Buchan (1875), Arnold Bennett (1867), John Everett Millais (1829), Alexander Mackenzie (1822), Æthelred the Unready (968), and Jon Lord (1941).

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Among critics born in United Kingdom, John Ruskin ranks 1. 

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