Talk:Francis Bourgeois

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Francis Bourgeois (1753–1811) was a British landscape and history painter, and court painter to King George III of the United Kingdom. In the late 18th century he became an art dealer and collector in association with Frenchman Noel Desenfans. The pair were commissioned by Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski to compile a collection of paintings, which they spent five years doing, but Stanisław's exile in 1795 meant the contract could not be completed and they were left with a large art collection. Bourgeois outlived Desenfans and bequeathed them to Dulwich College with an additional £2000 to build a permanent building, which became the Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's first purpose-built public art gallery.

This portrait of Bourgeois was painted by William Beechey (1753–1839) and hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London.Painting: William Beechey

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– It's been about or nearly three years since the initial two move discussions at Talk:Francis Bourgeois (trainspotter)#Requested move 2 January 2022 and Talk:Francis Bourgeois (disambiguation), and Google search results and pageviews still overwhelmingly trend towards the trainspotter being the PT.

Currently, the painter's page gets about 20 views a day compared to about 500 for the trainspotter: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2021-07-01&end=2025-01-03&pages=Francis_Bourgeois_(trainspotter)%7CFrancis_Bourgeois

In the past year, the daily average pageviews have been 526 for the trainspotter, compared to 16 for the painter: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2024-01-03&end=2025-01-03&pages=Francis_Bourgeois_(trainspotter)%7CFrancis_Bourgeois

Per WikiNav, between 86% (November 2024) and 100% (October 2024) of outbound clicks from the painter's page go to the trainspotter's: https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Francis_Bourgeois

I would also not be opposed to Francis Bourgeois becoming a disambiguation page (as was stupidly attempted by me nearly 3 years ago), with separate pages disambiguating the painter and trainspotter. wizzito | say hello! 13:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support at least no primary topic. Crouch, Swale (talk) 23:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]