# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emeric-essex-vidal
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:22:00.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emeric-essex-vidal"
name: "Emeric Essex Vidal"
slug: "emeric-essex-vidal"
description: "Emeric Essex Vidal was an English watercolourist and naval officer. His opportunities for travel, his curiosity about local customs and human types, and his eye for the picturesque, led him to make paintings which are now historical resources. A landscape painter and a costumbrista, he was the first visual artist to leave records of the ordinary inhabitants of the newly emergent Argentina and Uruguay, including the first depictions of gauchos. He also left records of Canada, Brazil, the West Indies and St Helena, where he sketched the newly deceased Napoleon."
tagline: "British painter (1791-1861)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/E.E._Vidal_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1791-05-29"
deathDate: "1861-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.146077333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "إيميريك إيسيكس فيدال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeric_Essex_Vidal"
    title: "Emeric Essex Vidal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeric_Essex_Vidal"
    title: "Emeric Essex Vidal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeric_Essex_Vidal"
    title: "Emeric Essex Vidal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5830716"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump