A recent paper out of the Erasmus School of Economics in the Netherlands explored the lives of artists to estimate the average time most people reach their creative peaks. By collecting data from 221 famous painters of the 19th and 20th centuries, the paper’s author — economist P.H. Franses — found that artists on average created their most defining work “at the 0.618 fraction of their lives,” which puts their age around 41.92 years old.
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