List of British artists

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This is a partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically (artists born in the same year should be arranged alphabetically within that year).

Born before 1700[]

Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Christina of Denmark, c. 1538. Oil and tempera on oak, National Gallery, London.
  • Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England
  • Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1520 – c. 1590) – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century
  • George Gower (1540–1596) – English portrait painter
  • Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) – English goldsmith, limner, portrait miniature painter
  • Rowland Lockey (c. 1565 – 1616) – English goldsmith, portrait miniaturist, painter
  • Isaac Oliver (c. 1565 – 1617) – French-born English portrait miniature painter
  • Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) – Flemish Baroque painter, watercolourist and etcher who became court painter in England
  • Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) – Czech etcher
  • Samuel Cooper (c. 1608 – 1672) – English miniature painter
  • John Michael Wright (1617–1694) – British baroque portrait painter
  • Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England
  • Francis Barlow (c. 1626 – 1704) – English painter, etcher, and illustrator
  • David Loggan (1635–1692) – English baroque painter, born in Danzig
  • Godfrey Kneller (1646/9–1723) – portrait painter in England
  • Francis Place (1647–1728) – English potter and engraver
  • James Thornhill (1675–1734) – English painter of historical subjects
  • Jonathan Richardson (1665–1745) – English portrait painter
  • Peter Monamy (1681–1749) – English marine painter
  • John Wootton (1682–1764) – English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes
  • Pieter Andreas Rysbrack (1685 or 1690–1748) – Flemish painter working in London
  • John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) – Flemish sculptor working in London
  • John Vanderbank (1694–1739) – English portrait painter and book illustrator
  • William Hogarth (1697–1764) – English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist

Born 1700–1799[]

J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, National Gallery
Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, 1770
William Blake, Newton (1795)
  • Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865) – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects.
  • Louis-François Roubiliac (1702/5–1762) – French sculptor whose works reside in Westminster Abbey
  • Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter
  • James Seymour (c. 1702 – 1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art
  • William Hoare (c. 1707 – 1792) – English painter especially of pastels
  • Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
  • Arthur Devis (c. 1712 – 1787) – English portrait painter, especially of conversation pieces and other small portraits
  • Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) – Scottish portrait painter
  • Richard Wilson (1713–1782) – Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy
  • Alexander Cozens (c. 1717 – 1786) – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting
  • Charles Brooking (1723–1759) – English painter
  • Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – English painter specialising in portraits
  • George Stubbs (1724–1806) – British painter especially of horses
  • Francis Cotes (1726–1770) – English painter
  • Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) – English portrait and landscape painter
  • Paul Sandby (1730–1809) – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
  • Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) – English animal painter
  • Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England
  • George Romney (1734–1802) – English portrait painter
  • Joseph Wright (1734–1797) – English landscape and portrait painter
  • Alexander Runciman (1736–1785) – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects
  • Mary Black (c.1737–1814) – English portrait painter
  • Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823) – sculptor from London
  • Francis Towne (1739/40–1816) – English watercolour painter
  • Angelica Kauffman (1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter
  • Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) – English artist of French origin
  • William Marlow (1740–1813) – English landscape and marine artist
  • John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings
  • Matthew William Peters (1742–1814) English portrait painter
  • James Barry (1741–1806) – Irish painter
  • Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin
  • Richard Cosway (1742–1821) – English portrait painter, miniaturist
  • Ozias Humphry (1742–1810) – English painter of portrait miniatures
  • John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes
  • Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist
  • Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver
  • Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
  • Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter
  • Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) – English artist and caricaturist
  • William Blake (1757–1827) – English poet, painter, and printmaker
  • Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840) – Scottish portrait and landscape painter
  • Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) – English portrait painter
  • Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – English painter, mostly of portraits
  • Charles Fairfield (1761?-1805) – English painter, mostly known as a copyist
  • John Charles Felix Rossi (1762–1839) – sculptor
  • Arthur William Devis (1762–1822) – English painter of history paintings and portraits
  • George Morland (1763–1804) – English painter of animals and rustic scenes
  • Joshua Cristall (1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter
  • John Crome (1768–1821) – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters
  • James Ward (1769–1859) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
  • Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) – English portrait and subject painter
  • Henry James Richter (1772–1857) – engraver and painter
  • Anne Frances Byrne (1775–1837) – painter of flowers and still lifes
  • Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) – English painter, watercolourist, and etcher
  • Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet (1775–1852) – painter of landscapes and horses
  • J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) – English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
  • John Constable (1776–1837) – English Romantic painter
  • John Higton (1776–1827) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
  • Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820) – painter of religious subjects
  • John Masey Wright (1777–1866) – watercolour painter
  • John Varley (1778–1842) – English watercolour painter and astrologer
  • Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844) – English landscape painter
  • Samuel Colman (1780–1845) – English painter
  • James Holworthy (1781–1841) – watercolour painter
  • John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) – artist of the Norwich school, mainly in watercolour
  • Frederick Nash (painter) (1782–1856) – architectural and landscape painter
  • David Cox (1783–1859) – English landscape painter
  • Samuel Prout (1783–1852) – English watercolour painter
  • Peter De Wint (1784–1849) – English landscape painter
  • John Romney (1785–1863) – mainly printmaking and watercolour
  • David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Scottish painter
  • William Mulready (1786–1863) – Irish genre painter living in London
  • Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) – English historical painter and writer
  • Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831) – Scottish landscape painter
  • John Martin (1789–1854) – English painter
  • William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) – English watercolor painter
  • George Hayter (1792–1871) English painter, specialising in portraits
  • John Linnell (1792–1882) – English landscape painter
  • Francis Danby (1793–1861) – Irish painter
  • Edward Calvert (1799–1883) – English printmaker and painter
  • James Holland (1799–1870) – landscape painter and illustrator
  • Eglington Margaret Pearson (died 1823) – stained glass painter

Born 1800–1899[]

Augustus Leopold Egg, The Travelling Companions, 1862
John Ruskin by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, 1853–1854, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  • Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) – English Romantic landscape painter
  • Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873) – English painter and sculptor especially of animals, particularly horses, dogs and stags
  • Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) – English watercolor painter
  • Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals
  • John Steell (1804–1891) – Scottish sculptor
  • John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) – Orientalist English painter
  • Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
  • William Dyce (1806–1864) – Scottish artist
  • Arthur Elliot (1809–1892) – British watercolourist
  • Thomas Mogford (1809–1868) – English portrait painter and landscape painter
  • James John Hill (1811–1882) – English painter
  • Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) – English painter
  • Lucette Barker (1816–1905) – English painter
  • William James Blacklock (1816–1858) – English landscape artist, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders
  • Edward Armitage (1817–1896) – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects
  • Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes
  • Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
  • Alfred Tippinge (1817–1898) - British Grenadier Guard who sent home paintings of the Crimean War
  • George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) – English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement
  • Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer
  • William Hemsley (1819–1906) – English genre painter; vice president of the Society of British Artists
  • William Powell Frith (1819–1909) – English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives
  • Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) – English painter of moral and historical subjects
  • Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893) – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America
  • Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910) – Anglo-Irish artist
  • Frederick Goodall (snr) (1822–1904) – English artist specialising in oriental scenes
  • Frederick William Keyl (1823–1871) – German-born British painter of animals
  • Charles Davidson (1824–1902) – English watercolour painter
  • Henry Alexander Bowler (1824–1903) – English painter and academic
  • Abraham Solomon (1824–1862) – English painter
  • Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet
  • Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – English educationalist and landscape artist
  • William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) – British painter, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  • Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828–1907) – English watercolour artist and illustrator
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
  • Anna Blunden (1829–1915) – English painter
  • James Docharty (1829–1878) – Scottish landscape painter
  • Edwin Long (1829–1890) – English orientalist painter, depicting Biblical and Middle Eastern subjects
  • John Everett Millais (1829–1896) – English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  • Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896) – English painter
  • Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) – English painter and sculptor especially of historical, biblical and classical subject matter
  • Charles James Lewis (1830–1892) – English painter in oils and watercolours
  • Marianne North (1830–1890) – English naturalist and flower painter
  • Walter Severn (1830–1904) – English watercolourist
  • John William Bailey (1831–1914) – British miniature painter
  • Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923) – English painter
  • Louise Rayner (1832–1924) – English watercolourist
  • Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) – English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  • William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910) – Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects
  • Daniel Charles Grose (1832-1900) - English painter
  • Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) – English artist and designer
  • Joseph Clark (1834–1926), English oil painter of domestic scenes
  • William Morris (1834–1896) – English artist, writer, and socialist
  • James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) – American-born, British-based painter and etcher
  • Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906) – English painter of churches and cathedrals
  • William McTaggart (1835–1910) – Scottish landscape painter
  • Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875) – British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator
  • John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) – English painter especially of landscapes
  • Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – British classical-subject painter
  • James Tissot (1836–1902) – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects
  • Simeon Solomon (1840–1905) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter
  • Frederick Walker (1840–1875) – English Social Realist painter and illustrator in watercolours and oils
  • Albert Moore (1841–1893) – English painter especially of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world
  • Alexander Rossi (1841–1916) – British artist specializing in genre works
  • Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – British marine painter and watercolourist
  • William John Seward Webber (1842–1919), English sculptor
  • Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894) – English painter and watercolourist
  • Walter Crane (1845–1915) – English artist and book illustrator
  • Frank Holl (1845–1888) – English painter
  • Walter Greaves (1846–1930) – English painter
  • James Campbell Noble (1846–1913) – Scottish landscape, seascape and portrait painter
  • John Eyre (1847-1927) – English genre painter, illustrator, painted and designed pottery
  • Ralph Hedley (1848–1913) – English realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator
  • John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter especially of female characters from mythology and literature
  • John Collier (1850–1934) – British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style
  • Robert Weir Allan (1851-1942) - Glasgow born painter of landscape and marine subjects
  • John Charles Dollman (1851–1934) – English narrative, landscape and animal painter
  • Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914) – English painter in a Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism style
  • Edmund Leighton (1853–1922) – English painter in Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic styles
  • Frank Dicksee (1853–1928) – English Victorian painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes
  • Maude Goodman (1853–1938) (a.k.a. Matilda Scanes) – English Victorian fine art painter and children’s book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings
  • Caroline Gotch (1854–1945) – English painter associated with the Newlyn School of artists
  • Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) – English painter
  • Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) – Cornish fisherman and artist
  • David Winder (1855–1933) – Bolton, Lancashire-born British artist; oil and watercolour
  • James Pittendreigh MacGillivray (1856–1938) – Scottish sculptor
  • Alfred William Rich (1856–1921) – English landscape artist
  • John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) – Expatriate American living in England; leading portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolorist
  • Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes
  • Joseph Benwell Clark (1857–1938) – English landscape painter and book illustrator
  • Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947) – British artist, founder of the Newlyn School
  • Arthur Hacker (1858–1919) – English classicist painter
  • Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) - English painter who lived in Cornwall, best known for his maritime paintings and male nudes
  • Walter Sickert (1860–1942) – English Impressionist painter
  • Solomon Joseph Solomon (1860–1927) – English painter of mythological scenes and portraits
  • Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942) – English artist
  • Harriet Isabel Adams (1863–1952) – British artist and illustrator
  • Lily Delissa Joseph (1863–1940) – English painter
  • Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864–1898) – church decorative artist
  • Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864–1950) – Scottish painter
  • Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) – English painter
  • William Edwin Pimm (1864–1952) – British artist, oil and watercolours
  • Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930) – English painter
  • Arthur Lowe (painter) (1865–1940) – English landscape artist from Kinoulton, Nottingham
  • Robert Bevan (1865–1925) – British painter
  • H. Gustave Hiller (1865–1946) – mainly of stained glass
  • Roger Fry (1866–1934) – English artist and art critic
  • Henry Charles Fehr (1867–1940) - English sculptor
  • Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory
  • Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer
  • J M Balliol Salmon (1868–1953) – British painter
  • Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954) – English painter
  • Ursula Wood (1868–1925) – English painter
  • Lamorna Birch (1869–1955) – English painter
  • Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958) – English equine artist
  • Henry Crocket (1870–1926) – landscape painter
  • William Ratcliffe (1870–1955) – English artist
  • Phelan Gibb (1870–1948) – British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910–1914
  • Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871–1958) – Scottish artist
  • Florence Engelbach (1872–1951) – English painter born in Spain
  • Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) – English artist and illustrator
  • William Nicholson (1872–1949) – English painter, illustrator and author of children's books
  • Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) – English illustrator and author especially of erotic illustrations
  • Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945) – English artist and illustrator
  • Louie Burrell (1873–1971) – English painter
  • Francis William Doyle Jones (1873–1938) – English sculptor
  • Isabel Codrington (1874–1943) – English painter
  • John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961) – Scottish artist, one of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
  • Hilda May Gordon (1874–1972) – British watercolourist
  • Frank O. Salisbury (1874–1962) – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works
  • Dorothea Sharp (1874–1955) – British landscape painter
  • Eleanor Best (1875-1957) – portrait and figure painter
  • Evelyn Cheston (1875-1929) – English landscape painter
  • Alice Kirkby Goyder (1875-1964) – English painter and etcher
  • Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970) – English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits, and industrial paintings
  • Henry Bates Joel (1875 - 1922) – English landscape painter
  • Margaret Fisher Prout (1875–1963) – English painter
  • Walter Dexter (1876–1958) – English oil and watercolour artist, particularly of Norfolk
  • Harold Gilman (1876–1919) – English artist and founder-member of the Camden Town Group
  • Gwen John (1876–1939) – Welsh artist
  • Horace Tuck (1876–1951) – Norfolk artist of oil and watercolour landscapes
  • Florence Mabel Hollams (1877–1963) – painter of dogs and horses
  • Laura Knight (1877–1970) – British artist
  • Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958) – English artist
  • Donald Maxwell (1877–1936) – English illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours
  • Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960) – English sculptor and painter
  • Denis Eden (1878–1949) - painter and illustrator
  • Charles Ginner (1878–1952) – French-born painter, member of Camden Town Group
  • Spencer Gore (1878–1914) – British painter who was first president of the Camden Town Group
  • Augustus John (1878–1961) – Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher
  • Louis Frederick Roslyn (1878–1940) - English sculptor
  • Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (1878–1959) – English artist, particularly renowned for equine subject matter
  • Ada Hill Walker (1879–1955) – scientific illustrator and artist
  • William Reid Dick (1879–1961) – Scottish sculptor
  • Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) – English painter and interior designer
  • Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966) – English landscape painter
  • Matthew Smith (1879–1959) – English painter
  • Malcolm Drummond (1880–1945) – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors
  • Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture
  • Elsie Henderson (1880–1967) – English painter and sculptor
  • Harry Morley (1881–1943) – English painter
  • Eric Gill (1882–1940) – British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker
  • Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) – English painter and author
  • Henry Lamb (1883–1960) – Australian-born British painter
  • Victoria Monkhouse (1883–1970) – English painter
  • Arthur Watts (1883–1935) – illustrator
  • Elinor Proby Adams (1885–1945) – English painter
  • Duncan Grant (1885–1978) – Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group
  • Gwen Raverat (1885–1957) – English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers
  • Randolph Schwabe (1885–1948) – English artist
  • Joseph Hermon Cawthra (1886–1971) – English sculptor
  • Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (1886–1911) – English painter
  • Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) – English artist and occultist
  • L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) – English artist
  • Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950) – English artist and theatre designer
  • Arthur James F. Bond (1888–1958) – English painter of maritime subjects
  • Sydney Carline (1888–1929) – English artist
  • David Dougal Williams (June 1888–28 September 1944) – British artist and art teacher
  • Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter
  • Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970) – English painter
  • Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural history
  • Paul Nash (1889–1946) – English war artist
  • Christopher Nevinson (1889–1946) – English painter and vorticist
  • Ruth Simpson (1889–1964) – English portrait painter
  • Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) – English artist
  • David Bomberg (1890–1957) – English painter and one of the Whitechapel Boys
  • Charles Cundall (1890–1971) – English painter
  • Joseph Gray (1890–1963) – English painter
  • Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) – Welsh artist and writer
  • Francis Helps (1890–1972) – English artist
  • Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890–1978) – English artist
  • Iain Macnab (1890–1967) – Scottish painter
  • Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) – English painter
  • Leon Underwood (1890–1975) – British sculptor, painter, and engraver
  • Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915) – French sculptor and vorticist
  • Mark Gertler (1891–1939) – British portrait and landscape painter
  • Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) – English painter
  • Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891–1966) – English portrait painter
  • Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975) – German born British sculptor
  • Colin Gill (1892–1940) – English painter
  • Gilbert Spencer (1892–1978) – British painter
  • Harold Sandys Williamson (1892–1978) – British painter
  • John Armstrong (1893–1973) – British artist
  • John Nash (1893–1977) – English painter, illustrator, and engraver
  • Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) – English painter
  • Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) – English painter and etcher
  • Leonard Squirrell (1893–1979) – English watercolourist and etcher
  • Henry Matthew Talintyre (1893–1962) – British artist
  • Flora Twort (1893–1985) – English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels
  • Henry Carr (1894–1970) – British painter
  • Meredith Frampton (1894–1984) – British artist
  • Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) – Cornish painter
  • Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) – English abstract painter
  • Dora Clarke (1895–1989) – English sculptor
  • David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet
  • William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist
  • Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) – British artist
  • Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) – British artist
  • John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) – New Zealand born illustrator
  • Harold Williamson (1898–1972) - British painter, designer, etcher and teacher
  • Henry Moore (1898–1986) – English artist and sculptor
  • Rodney Joseph Burn (1899–1984) – English artist
  • Winifred Knights (1899–1947) – English painter

Born 1900–1949[]

  • Ursula Edgcumbe (1900–1985)
  • Barbara Greg (1900–1983)
  • George Lambourn (1900–1977)
  • Roland Penrose (1900–1984)
  • Harold Tamblyn-Watts (1900–1999)
  • Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983)
  • Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
  • Ancell Stronach (1901–1981) – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art
  • Fred Whicker (1901–1966)
  • Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
  • Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
  • Jean Clark (1902–1999)
  • Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
  • Aileen Eagleton (1902–1984)
  • Simon Elwes (1902–1975)
  • Robin Guthrie (1902–1971)
  • Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
  • Ray Howard-Jones (1903–1996)
  • Charles Mahoney (1903–1968)
  • John Piper (1903–1992)
  • Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
  • Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
  • Albert Houthuesen (1903–1979)
  • Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
  • Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
  • Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
  • Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
  • Stephen Bone (1904–1958)
  • Evan Charlton (1904–1984)
  • Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
  • Reg Bunn (1905–1971)
  • Edward Burra (1905–1976)
  • Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981)
  • Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
  • Morris Kestelman (1905–1998)
  • Kenneth Martin (1905–1984)
  • Robert Medley (1905–1994)
  • Vernon Ward (1905–1985)
  • Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
  • Kathleen Allen (1906–1983)
  • Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960)
  • Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
  • Joan Hassall (1906–1988)
  • Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
  • Kenneth Steel (1906–1970)
  • Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998)
  • Phyllis Ginger (1907–2005)
  • James McIntosh Patrick (1907–1998) – Scottish landscape painter
  • Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye (1907–2005)
  • Claude Rogers (1907–1979)
  • William Coldstream (1908–1987)
  • Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
  • Norman Hepple (1908–1994)
  • Victor Pasmore (1908–1998)
  • Stella Schmolle (1908–1975)
  • Carel Weight (1908–1997)
  • Francis Bacon (1909–1992) – born in Ireland
  • Dorothea Braby (1909–1987)
  • Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
  • Leonard Daniels (1909–1998)
  • Paul Lucien Dessau (1909–1999)
  • Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976)
  • Gwynneth Holt (1909–1995) – ivory sculptor
  • Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)
  • Eric Taylor (1909–1999)
  • Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
  • Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
  • Pamela Drew (1910–1989)
  • Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)
  • Rodrigo Moynihan (1910–1990)
  • Rosemary Allan (1911–2008)
  • Phyllis Bray (1911–1991)
  • John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
  • Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
  • Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
  • Nicolette Macnamara (1911–1987)
  • Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
  • Andrew Freeth (1912–1986)
  • Erlund Hudson (1912–2011)
  • Georgina Hunt (1912–2012)
  • Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)
  • Reg Butler (1913–1981)
  • Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
  • Joan Hutt (1913–1985)
  • Leonard Rosoman (1913–2012)
  • Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)
  • Harold Hitchcock (1914–2009)
  • Frances Macdonald (1914–2002)
  • Charles Mozley (1914–1991)
  • Frank Roper (1914–2000) – sculptor
  • Doris Blair (born 1915)
  • Dennis Flanders (1915–1994)
  • Wendy F. Walsh (1915–2014) – illustrator and botanical artist
  • Norman Whitehead (1915–1983)
  • Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
  • John Bridgeman (1916–2004)
  • Margaret Thomas (1916–2016) – painter
  • James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)
  • John Kashdan (1917–2001)
  • Anthony Robert Klitz (1917–2000)
  • John Minton (1917–1957)
  • Mona Moore (1917–2000)
  • Estella Campavias (1918–1990)
  • John Kyffin Williams (1918–2006)
  • Peter Lanyon (1918–1964)
  • Richard Vicary (1918–2006) – printmaker
  • Eden Box (1918–1988)
  • Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
  • Norman Cornish (1919–2014)
  • Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
  • Cliff Holden (1919–2020)
  • Peter Wright (1919–2003)
  • Michael Ford (1920–2005)
  • Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
  • Robert Tavener (1920–2004)
  • Françoise Taylor (1920–2007) – born in Belgium, British by marriage
  • Derek Chittock (1922–1986)
  • Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
  • Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
  • Eduardo Paolozzi (1922–2005)
  • Miles Richmond (1922–2008)
  • Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
  • William McLaren (1923–1987)
  • Anthony Caro (1924–2013)
  • Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)
  • Erich von Götha de la Rosière (born 1924)
  • Keith Sutton (1924–1991)
  • Beryl Cook (1926–2008)
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
  • Michael Edmonds (1926–2014)
  • Leon Kossoff (1926–2019)
  • Edna Mann (1926–1985)
  • Tom McGuinness (1926–2006)
  • Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
  • Greta Tomlinson (1927–2021)
  • Michael Andrews (1928–1995)
  • John Copnall (1928–2007)
  • Dora Holzhandler (1928–2015) – born in Paris to Polish parents but lived in London
  • Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995)
  • Dorothy Mead (1928–1975)
  • Joe Tilson (born 1928)
  • John Scanes (1928–2004)
  • Victor Willing (1928–1988)
  • Barbara Balmer (1929–2017)
  • Zelda Nolte (1929–2003)
  • Mardi Barrie (1930–2004)
  • Robyn Denny (1930–2014)
  • David Gentleman (born 1930)
  • Donald Pass (1930–2010)
  • John Ambrose (born 1931)
  • Frank Auerbach (born 1931)
  • Dennis Creffield (1931–2018)
  • Ken Messer (1931–2018)
  • Malcolm Morley (1931–2018) – first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984
  • Bridget Riley (born 1931)
  • Valerie Thornton (1931–1991)
  • Audrey Barker (1932–2002)
  • Peter Blake (born 1932)
  • Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
  • Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) – royal painter
  • Ken Howard (born 1932)
  • R. B. Kitaj (1932–2007) – born in the United States
  • Euan Uglow (1932–2000)
  • Marc Vaux (born 1932)
  • Ian Weatherhead (born 1932)
  • Richard Allen (1933–1999)
  • John Furnival (1933–2020) – artist of visual and concrete poetry
  • Vincent Haddelsey (1934–2010)
  • John Hoyland (1934–2011)
  • Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
  • Garth Evans (born 1934) – sculptor
  • Rose Wylie (born 1934) – painter
  • Paula Rego (born 1935) – born in Portugal
  • Frank Bowling (born 1936)
  • Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
  • David Hall (1937–2014)
  • David Hockney (born 1937)
  • Allen Jones (born 1937)
  • Tom Phillips (born 1937)
  • Pamela Scott Wilkie (born 1937)
  • Margot Perryman (born 1938)
  • Carole Steyn (born 1938)
  • William Tillyer (born 1938)
  • Terry Atkinson (born 1939)
  • Rose Frain (born 1939)
  • Anthony Green (born 1939)
  • Patrick Hughes (born 1939)
  • Ian Hunter (1939–2017) – Dean of Saint Martin's School of Art
  • John Walker (born 1939) – painter and printmaker
  • John Byrne (born 1940)
  • Peter Liddle (born 1940)
  • Barry Flanagan (1941–2009)
  • Yvonne Hutton (1941–1991)
  • Geoffrey Key (born 1941)
  • Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
  • Ruth Rix (born 1942)
  • Alan Aldridge (1938–2017)
  • Grange Calveley (born 1943)
  • Errol Lloyd (born 1943)
  • Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
  • Graham Ovenden (born 1943)
  • Valerie Wiffen (born 1943)
  • Zacron (1943–2012) – multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster
  • Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944)
  • Bruce McLean (born 1944)
  • David Paskett (born 1944)
  • Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
  • Maggi Hambling (born 1945)
  • Ed Herring (1945–2003)
  • Geoffrey Humphries (born 1945)
  • David Imms (born 1945)
  • Richard Long (born 1945)
  • Val Archer (born 1946)
  • Lewis Blake (born 1946)
  • Terance James Bond (born 1946)
  • Paul Dash (born 1946)
  • Rose Garrard (born 1946)
  • Winston Branch (born 1947)
  • Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007) – sculptor
  • Richard Cook (born 1947)
  • Tam Joseph (born 1947)
  • Vikki Slowe (born 1947) – printmaker and painter
  • Linda Sutton (born 1947)
  • Godfrey Blow (born 1948)
  • Pete Gilbert (born 1948) – graphic designer and painter
  • Richard Deacon (born 1949) – 1987 Turner Prize Winner
  • Paul Wager (born 1949) – painter and sculptor

Born 1950 and later[]

  • Sam Ainsley (born 1950)
  • Alison Dunhill (born 1950)
  • Antony Gormley (born 1950)
  • Edward Allington (1951–2017)
  • Humphrey Ocean (born 1951)
  • Richard Spare (born 1951)
  • Jeremy Henderson (1952–2009) – artist and painter
  • Colin Nichols (born 1952)
  • Tim Woolcock (born 1952) – Modern British painter painting in the tradition of the 1950s
  • Stephen Pusey (born 1952)
  • Alan Rankle (born 1952) – landscape painter
  • Jane Boyd (born 1953)
  • Pogus Caesar (born 1953) – born in St Kitts
  • Chris Gollon (1953–2017)
  • Ingrid Pollard (born 1953)
  • Melinda Camber Porter (1953–2008) – painter, writer, filmmaker, journalist for The Times; lived in London, Paris, and New York
  • Charles Thomson (born 1953)
  • Martin Yeoman (born 1953)
  • Michael Clark (artist) (born 1954)
  • Lubaina Himid (born 1954)
  • Aidan Hughes (born 1954)
  • Anish Kapoor (born 1954)
  • Vivien Blackett (born 1955)
  • David Tress (born 1955)
  • Denzil Forrester (born 1956)
  • Errol Francis (born 1956)
  • James Dodds (born 1957)
  • Jeremy Gardiner (born 1957)
  • Fiona Graham-Mackay (born 1957) – portraits of the royal family
  • Thomas Hodges (born 1957) – photographic and mixed media artist
  • Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
  • Willard Wigan (born 1957)
  • Simon Beck (artist) (born 1958) – snow artist
  • Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958)
  • Keith Coventry (born 1958)
  • Lennie Lee (born 1958) – born in South Africa
  • Jake Tilson (born 1958)
  • Andy Dog Johnson (1959–2016)
  • Claudette Johnson (born 1959)
  • Hew Locke (born 1959) – born in Scotland
  • Bruce Munro (born 1959)
  • Keith Salmon (born 1959) – Scottish landscape painter born in England
  • Suzzan Blac (born 1960)
  • Eddie Chambers (born 1960)
  • John Foulger (1960–2006)
  • Isaac Julien (born 1960)
  • Grayson Perry (born 1960)
  • Nick Fudge (born 1960)
  • Keith Piper (born 1960)
  • Yinka Shonibare (born 1960)
  • Julie Brook (born 1961)
  • Sonia Boyce (born 1962)
  • Jonathan S Hooper (born 1962)
  • Marion Kalmus (born 1962)
  • Sarah Lucas (born 1962)
  • Paul Mellia (born 1962)
  • Nick Miller (born 1962) – Irish painter born in England
  • Janette Parris (born 1962)
  • Nasser Azam (born 1963)
  • Nicola Bealing (born 1963)
  • Tracey Emin (born 1963)
  • Robert Fogell (born 1963)
  • Janette Parris (born 1963)
  • Dean Stalham (born c. 1963)
  • Barbara Walker (born 1963)
  • Gillian Wearing (born 1963) – 1997 Turner Prize winner
  • Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) – 1993 Turner Prize winner
  • Frances Aviva Blane (born 1964)
  • Jonathan Ellery (born 1964)
  • Simon Gales (born 1964)
  • Chris Hipkiss (born 1964)
  • Rachel Ara (born 1965)
  • Tom Cartmill (born 1965)
  • Adam Chodzko (born 1965)
  • Marion Coutts (born 1965)
  • Guy Denning (born 1965)
  • Damien Hirst (born 1965)
  • Jonathan Huxley (born 1965)
  • Robert Priseman (born 1965)
  • Fiona Banner (born 1966)
  • Fiona Crisp (born 1966) – photographer
  • Ian Davenport (born 1966)
  • Juno Doran (born 1966)
  • Christian Furr (born 1966)
  • Igor Kufayev (born 1966)
  • Maria Marshall (born 1966)
  • Elizabeth Price (born 1966) – 2012 Turner Prize winner
  • Peter Brown (born 1967)
  • Serena de la Hey (born 1967), sculptor
  • Andy Lomas (born 1967)
  • Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967)
  • Paul Rooney (born 1967)
  • Chris Ofili (born 1968)
  • Suling Wang (born 1968)
  • Brita Granström (born 1969)
  • Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
  • Jonathan Myles-Lea (1969–2021) – painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes
  • Michael Gustavius Payne (born 1969)
  • Alexander Talbot Rice (born 1969) – society portrait painter
  • Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
  • Nina Murdoch (born 1970) – tempera painter
  • Mandy Wilkinson (born 1970)
  • Jonathan Kearney (born 1971)
  • David Emmanuel Noel (born 1972)
  • Anna Barriball (born 1972) – mixed media artist
  • Dee Ferris (born 1973)
  • Peter Liversidge (born 1973)
  • Malcolm McGookin (born 1956)
  • Banksy (born 1974)
  • Tom Palin (born 1974)
  • Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974) – savant artist
  • Graham Nicholls (born 1975)
  • Lucy Skaer (born 1975)
  • Amanda Ansell (born 1976)
  • Reuben Colley (born 1976)
  • Adelaide Damoah (born c. 1977)
  • Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)
  • Conrad Shawcross (born 1977)
  • Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977)
  • Claire Hooper (born 1978)
  • David Spriggs (born 1978) - sculptor, installation artist
  • Angela Wakefield (born 1978)
  • Hannah Rickards (born 1979)
  • Fuller (born 1980)
  • Nick Gentry (born 1980)
  • Conor Harrington (born 1980)
  • Edward Kluz (born 1980)
  • Polly Morgan (born 1980)
  • Stuart Semple (born 1980)
  • Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983)
  • Anna King (born 1984)
  • Anthony Smith (born 1984) – bronze sculptor
  • Sarah Maple (born 1985) – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner
  • Emma Cousin (born 1986)
  • Johan Andersson (born 1986)
  • Nicola Frimpong (born 1987)
  • Nathan Wyburn (born 1989) – food artist

See also[]

References[]

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