Robert Southey

The 20 most looked-at works by Thomas Phillips

1. 1 Patrick Nairne, Master 8,1%
2. 2 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux 4,8%
3. 3 Dixon Denham 4,8%
4. 4 Harriet Bruhl, Lady Polwarth, 1802 3,2%
5. 5 William Bromley, Speaker 3,2%
6. 6 The Children Of The 2nd Earl Talbot 3,2%
7. 7 Portrait Of Matvei Platov 3,2%
8. 8 Charles Dibdin 3,2%
9. 9 Professor Adam Sedgwick 3,2%
10. 10 George Wyndham, 3rd Earl Of Egremont 3,2%
11. 11 Portrait Of An Unknown Man 1,6%
12. 12 Lady Caroline Lamb 1,6%
13. 13 Michael Faraday, 1842 1,6%
14. 14 Everard Home, 1829 1,6%
15. 15 Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, 1817 1,6%
16. 16 Joseph Banks, 1809 1,6%
17. 17 William Blake 1,6%
18. 18 Self Portrait 1,6%
19. 19 Colonel George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, As A Young Man 1,6%
20. — Robert Southey this painting 0,0%

Together these works take 54,5% of all the attention this artist's paintings received over the last twelve months. The catalogue holds 275 works by this artist, of which 47 were looked at at least once. This painting has not been looked at yet in that time — it closes the list without a rank.

Bars measure attention, not quality. Pick the work at the top and this one: name one thing that might make a painting famous beyond how well it is painted.