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@painting
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41,006subscribers
-1,183 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001860050664 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Usernames | @fashionbot @painting @paintings |
| Description | The #1 Virtual Art Gallery Buy Ads: @CaptainJamesCook |
| Created | Between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 6 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 180 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 6 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/painting |
Art & design — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Nov 2026, 12:25 | 41,006 | no change |
| 6 Nov 2026, 11:39 | 41,006 | -9 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 21:56 | 41,015 | +5 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 14:40 | 41,010 | -4 |
| 5 Nov 2026, 10:29 | 41,014 | -9 |
| 4 Nov 2026, 20:56 | 41,023 | -2 |
| 4 Nov 2026, 16:17 | 41,025 | -9 |
| 4 Nov 2026, 09:17 | 41,034 | +2 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 21:59 | 41,032 | -1 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 16:17 | 41,033 | -10 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 12:41 | 41,043 | -1 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 18:19 | 41,044 | +2 |
| 2 Nov 2026, 10:35 | 41,042 | no change |
| 1 Nov 2026, 17:46 | 41,042 | -1 |
| 1 Nov 2026, 17:29 | 41,043 | -6 |
| 1 Nov 2026, 08:31 | 41,049 | -4 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 21:07 | 41,053 | +2 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 16:00 | 41,051 | -10 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 05:58 | 41,061 | -4 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 00:31 | 41,065 | first reading |
227 posts held, back to 25 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 180 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 54 of 55 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 5 November 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 227 (25 July 2026 – 5 November 2026) |
| Views total | 141,270 |
| Reactions total | 1,977 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 6 Nov 2026, 13:59 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 6 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
8,895 reactions across 219 posts, in 5 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 78.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 6,963 | 78.3% | |
| 👀 | 835 | 9.39% | |
| 🔥 | 583 | 6.55% | |
| 👏 | 364 | 4.09% | |
| 👍 | 150 | 1.69% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 222 of the 227 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 9,011 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 227 most recent posts we hold, published 25 July 2026 to 5 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @painting. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.
Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.
This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.
Counted over the 227 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 25 July 2026 to 5 November 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 0 of 55 posts held from the last 30 days (0%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
Who painted the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog?
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
❓ The most famous man seen from behind. Who painted him? A lone walker in a dark green coat stands on a rock above a sea of fog. We never see his face, and photographers and filmmakers have copied the pose for two centuries. Guess the artist in the quiz. The Art Vault
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🖼 Whistler's Mother exists because a model didn't turn up In 1871 James McNeill Whistler's model failed to come to his London studio, and his mother Anna, 67, took her place. Standing for hours was too tiring, so he painted her seated. He called it Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: for him it was a study in colour, not a family portrait. France bought it in 1891, the first work by an American painter acquired b…
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🕯 147 people boarded this raft and only 15 were alive 13 days later In July 1816 the French frigate Méduse ran aground off West Africa. With too few lifeboats, about 147 people were put on a raft and cut loose. When a ship found it 13 days later, 15 were still alive. Théodore Géricault, 27, interviewed survivors, had the ship's carpenter build him a model of the raft and studied corpses in Paris hospitals. The can…
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🎨 Seurat spent two years on one Sunday afternoon A Sunday on La Grande Jatte took Georges Seurat from 1884 to 1886. He made dozens of drawings and oil sketches on the island in the Seine, then painted the three-metre canvas in his studio with tiny dots of pure colour that mix in the viewer's eye. He was 26 when he showed it at the last Impressionist exhibition, in 1886. Later he added a painted border of dots aroun…
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🔍 The Night Watch is a daytime scene, and it used to be bigger Rembrandt finished it in 1642 for a company of Amsterdam's civic guard. Its real title names the captain: Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. The nickname came later, when darkened varnish made the daylight scene look like night. In 1715 the canvas was moved to Amsterdam's Town Hall and trimmed on all four si…
❤10👀6👍2🔥1
🕯 A hero of Trafalgar, towed to the scrapyard by a tiny steamer In 1805 HMS Temeraire fought at Trafalgar right behind Nelson's flagship. In 1838 she was sold off and towed up the Thames to a breaker's yard in Rotherhithe. Turner took liberties. By then her masts had been removed. He painted them back, pale as a ghost, behind a black smoking tug. The old sailing navy fading, steam pulling it away. He called it his…
❤12🔥5👀3
Who painted The Card Players?
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
👀6❤5
❓ One version of this card game sold for more than $250 million Painted in Provence in the early 1890s, with local farm workers as models. The artist made five versions of the scene. In 2011 the royal family of Qatar bought one privately, at the time the most expensive painting ever sold. The version above hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Who painted it? The Art Vault
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🎨 The painting that made Caravaggio famous almost overnight The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599–1600, was his first big public commission, for the Contarelli Chapel in Rome. Until then he sold small pictures to private collectors. After it, churches across the city wanted him. He moved the Gospel scene into a Roman tax office of his own day, with the men in the clothes of 1600. Which man is Matthew is still debated…
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🎌 Van Gogh loved this rainstorm so much he copied it in oil Utagawa Hiroshige, Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, 1857. In 1887 Vincent van Gogh painted his own version in oil, Bridge in the Rain. He and his brother Theo collected hundreds of Japanese prints in Paris, and the copy now hangs in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 夕立 (yūdachi) = a sudden evening shower in summer 雨 (ame) = rain 🇯🇵 Japan
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🔍 Van Eyck signed this painting "was here", the way a witness would Above the mirror in The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) he wrote in Latin: Johannes de eyck fuit hic 1434, "Jan van Eyck was here". On other works he used the usual me fecit, "made me". In 1934 the art historian Erwin Panofsky read it as a witness's signature: the painting as a kind of marriage record, with the two tiny figures reflected in the mirror as…
❤18👀5🔥2
Showing the 12 most recent of 227 posts we hold for @painting. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Stars beside a post are paid reactions — Telegram Stars, bought with money and spent on that post. They are a different unit from reactions and are never added to them, here or anywhere else on this page.
We recorded 3 posts on @painting as deleted — posts this register held that were missing from the channel’s public page on two separate reads, taken from different network addresses at least an hour apart.
A deletion is not wrongdoing. This register can see that a post it held is no longer on the channel’s public page, and when — not why. Expired ad placements, reposts, rotating links and corrections all look the same. This is a count of recorded detections, not an exact total: it misses deletions we could not see, because only a post we held and later re-read inside the page can be seen to go, and it may include a small number of wrong records. How this is measured.
The 2 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
Who painted the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog?
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Who painted The Card Players?
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 227 most recent posts we hold, published 25 July 2026 to 5 November 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 8 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 29 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 15 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 14 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 6 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Art Vault” (@painting), 41,006 subscribers as measured 6 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/painting.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.