Pieter Bruegel.He beat Vincent van Gogh fair and square in the rematch for a tenth uninterrupted victory overall.
Time to get started on the commemorative marker:
Second place went to Vincent van Gogh, third to John Singer Sargent, and fourth to Gustave Caillebotte. Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci shared next-highest honors, followed by Edgar Degas and Andrew Wyeth. Rounding out the winners circle: Remedios Varo, Winslow Homer, Paul Klee, and Claude Monet.
Here's a bracket showing the fortunes of the 32 final survivors of the original 512:
The top rankings by vote ratio go to Leonardo da Vinci, Durer, and Wyeth. Bruegel was 5th in this measure, behind Sargent; Antonello da Messina, a strong performer in the early tournament, ranks a surprising 7th.
Homer had the most victories, with 11. Wyeth, Caillebotte, Bruegel, and van Gogh had 10 apiece. Appearing the most times, 13 times apiece, were Homer (11-2-0) and Caillebotte (10-2-1).
Caillebotte had the great number of individual favorable votes, with 115. Wyeth had 114, van Gogh 11, and Homer 108, followed by Bruegel with 98.
The artist with the lowest number of unfavorable votes was Frans Syders, with only 10, but since he only drummed up 8 positive votes in a pair of quorum-scrapers, it didn't do him much good.
Bellows, Avercamp, and Jacques David, oddly enough, all had three tied matches, but none of them are quite as moderate as Frederic Lord Leighton, who finished with two wins, two losses, and a whopping four ties.
