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Louis Wain

1860 - 1939

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Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in 1884 but was widowed three years later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Wain is the 334th most popular painter (down from 293rd in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 609th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Painter.

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Among painters, Louis Wain ranks 334 out of 2,023. Before him are Niccolò dell'Abbate, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Félicien Rops, Thomas Couture, Léon Bakst, and Willem de Kooning. After him are Giovanni Paolo Panini, Adriaen Brouwer, Aelbert Cuyp, Carlo Crivelli, Adriaen van Ostade, and Bernardino Luini.

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Among people born in 1860, Louis Wain ranks 26. Before him are Hugo Wolf, Jane Addams, Hjalmar Branting, René Lalique, John J. Pershing, and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. After him are Ernest Thompson Seton, William Kemmler, Vito Volterra, Marianne von Werefkin, Otto Jespersen, and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1939, Louis Wain ranks 24. Before him are Douglas Fairbanks, James Naismith, Matthias Sindelar, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Antonio Machado, and Anthony Fokker. After him are Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Otto Rank, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Ernst Toller, and Alexander Yegorov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Louis Wain ranks 831 out of 8,785. Before him are Hertha Ayrton (1854), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Asma al-Assad (1975), Alice Liddell (1852), Nicko McBrain (1952), and Charles Scott Sherrington (1952). After him are Ian McEwan (1948), Denis Law (1940), Oliver Heaviside (1850), Chris Norman (1950), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), and Mary Quant (1930).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Louis Wain ranks 11. Before him are John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), John Collier (1850), Edwin Landseer (1802), Joshua Reynolds (1723), and Nicholas Hilliard (1547). After him are William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), John Tenniel (1820), Richard Hamilton (1922), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), and Thomas Lawrence (1769).

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