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Thomas Couture

1815 - 1879

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Thomas Couture (French pronunciation: [tɔma kutyʁ]; 21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught many notable contemporary figures of the art world, such as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Ward Dunsmore, Karel Javůrek, William Morris Hunt, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Couture is the 331st most popular painter, the 1,031st most popular biography from France (up from 1,073rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular French Painter.

Thomas Couture was a French painter who is most famous for his portraits of society figures and royalty.

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Among painters, Thomas Couture ranks 331 out of 2,023. Before him are Paula Modersohn-Becker, Max Liebermann, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Niccolò dell'Abbate, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Félicien Rops. After him are Léon Bakst, Willem de Kooning, Louis Wain, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Adriaen Brouwer, and Aelbert Cuyp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Thomas Couture ranks 10. Before him are Otto of Greece, John A. Macdonald, George Boole, Karl Weierstrass, Adolph Menzel, and Johann Jakob Bachofen. After him are Louis-Jules Trochu, Ildefons Cerdà, Ľudovít Štúr, Julia Margaret Cameron, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, and Lorenz von Stein. Among people deceased in 1879, Thomas Couture ranks 9. Before him are Honoré Daumier, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Adolf Anderssen, Albrecht von Roon, and Rowland Hill. After him are Maria Teresa of Savoy, Gottfried Semper, Charles De Coster, Julia Margaret Cameron, Ludwig Reichenbach, and August Grisebach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Thomas Couture ranks 1,031 out of 6,770. Before him are Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438), Theudebert II (585), Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753), René Just Haüy (1743), and Aimé Bonpland (1773). After him are Flora Tristan (1803), Laura de Noves (1310), François l'Olonnais (1635), Pierre d'Ailly (1350), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Thomas Couture ranks 72. Before him are Georges Rouault (1871), Martin Schongauer (1450), Jacques Callot (1592), François Clouet (1510), Pierre Mignard (1612), and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836). After him are Paul Sérusier (1864), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749), Horace Vernet (1789), Léon Bonnat (1833), and Jeanne Hébuterne (1898).

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