← Fame through time1700-1799
The 18th century
Whose working lives fell in the 18th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 18th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Anton Raphael Mengs18 decades - 2
Johann Zoffany0 decades - 3
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt5 decades - 4
Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadtnot measured- - 5
Jacob Philipp Hackert4 decades - 6
Johann Baptist Zimmermann7 decades - 7
Franz Anton Maulbertsch6 decades - 8
Anna Dorothea Therbusch3 decades - 9
Georg Dionysius Ehret0 decades - 10
Petr Brandl0 decades - 11
Egid Quirin Asam7 decades - 12
Ignaz Günther10 decades - 13
Georg Rafael Donner8 decades - 14
Johann Heinrich Tischbein0 decades - 15
Matthias Braun0 decades - 16
Asmus Jacob Carstens13 decades - 17
Balthasar Denner8 decades - 18
Johann Elias Ridinger6 decades - 19
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein3 decades - 20
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich3 decades - 21
Anna Rosina de Gasc0 decades - 22
Elias Gottlob Haussmann0 decades - 23
Johann Joachim Kändler0 decades - 24
Martin Johann Schmidt6 decades - 25
David Roentgennot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.