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Roger Fry

1866 - 1934

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Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was an early figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and he emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ... Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Fry is the 1,036th most popular painter (down from 979th in 2019), the 2,286th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,862nd in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Roger Fry ranks 1,036 out of 2,023. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Xu Wei, Constance Mayer, José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, David Teniers the Elder, and Élisabeth Sophie Chéron. After him are Carlo Saraceni, Jaume Huguet, Thomas de Keyser, Franz Pforr, Benjamin West, and Toriyama Sekien.

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Among people born in 1866, Roger Fry ranks 63. Before him are Kazimierz Twardowski, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Reginald Fessenden, Holger Nielsen, Alikhan Bukeikhanov, and Robert Broom. After him are António José de Almeida, Antonia Maury, Charles Mangin, Pyotr Lebedev, Stamata Revithi, and Władysław Podkowiński. Among people deceased in 1934, Roger Fry ranks 80. Before him are Carl Charlier, Pablo Gargallo, Oskar von Hutier, Carlos Chagas, Catherine Breshkovsky, and Otakar Ševčík. After him are François Coty, Maria Zankovetska, James Mark Baldwin, João do Canto e Castro, Marie Dressler, and Lucien Gaudin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Fry ranks 2,286 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Yates (1929), Derek Jarman (1942), John Williams (1903), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Shane MacGowan (1957), and Elihu Thomson (1853). After him are Matt Lucas (1974), Eric Temple Bell (1883), Bert Williams (1920), Riz Ahmed (1982), Damon Albarn (1968), and Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Roger Fry ranks 39. Before him are Effie Gray (1828), Roland Penrose (1900), Matthew Paris (1200), Vanessa Bell (1879), Walter Crane (1845), and David Roberts (1796). After him are George Frederic Watts (1817), Dora Carrington (1893), George Romney (1734), Frank Dicksee (1853), Robert Peake the Elder (1551), and Thomas Hill (1829).

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