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, arranged chronologically (artists born in the same year should be arranged alphabetically within that year).

Born before 1700

Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; ; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He ...

(1497/8–1543) – German artist and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed technique ...

who became

court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...

in England *

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Marc Gerard and Marcus Garret (c. 1520 – c. 1590) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print designer and etcher who was active in his native Flanders and in England. He practised in many genres, including portrait ...

(c.1520–c.1590) –

Flemish Flemish may refer to: * Flemish, adjective for Flanders, Belgium * Flemish region, one of the three regions of Belgium *Flemish Community, one of the three constitutionally defined language communities of Belgium * Flemish dialects, a Dutch dialec ...

printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century *

George Gower George Gower (c. 1540–1596) was an English portrait painter who became Serjeant Painter to Elizabeth I of England, Queen Elizabeth I in 1581. Biography Very little is known about his early life except that he was a grandson of Sir John Go ...

(1540–1596) – English portrait painter *

Nicholas Hilliard Nicholas Hilliard ( – before 7 January 1619) was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England. He mostly painted small oval miniatures, but also some l ...

(1547–1619) – English

goldsmith A goldsmith is a Metalworking, metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Modern goldsmiths mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, they have also made cutlery, silverware, platter (dishware), plat ...

limner A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration. A mention of medieval limners' work appears in the book ''Methods and Materials of Painting'' by Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865). United Ki ...

portrait miniature A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting from Renaissance art, usually executed in gouache, Watercolor painting, watercolor, or Vitreous enamel, enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illumin ...

painter *

Rowland Lockey Rowland Lockey (c. 1565–1616) was an English Painting, painter and goldsmith, and was the son of Leonard Lockey,Lewis, p. 8-9 a crossbow maker of the parish of St Bride's Church, St Bride's, Fleet Street, London. Lockey was apprenticed to El ...

(c.1565–1616) – English goldsmith, portrait miniaturist, painter *

Isaac Oliver Isaac Oliver ( – bur. 2 October 1617) or Olivier was an English portrait miniature painter. Life and work Born in Rouen around 1565, he moved to London in 1568 with his Huguenot parents Peter and Epiphany Oliver to escape the Wars of Reli ...

(c.1565–1617) – French-born English

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better r ...

miniature painter *

Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of ...

(1599–1641) –

Flemish Baroque painter Flemish Baroque painting was a style of painting in the Southern Netherlands during Spanish control in the 16th and 17th centuries. The period roughly begins when the Dutch Republic was split from the Habsburg Spain regions to the south with th ...

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the ...

ist and

etcher Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

who became

in England *

Wenceslaus Hollar Wenceslaus Hollar (23 July 1607 – 25 March 1677) was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. He is known to German speakers as ; and to Czech speakers as (). He is partic ...

(1607–1677) –

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus *Czech (surnam ...

etcher *

Samuel Cooper Samuel or Sam Cooper may refer to: * Samuel Cooper (painter) (1609–1672), English miniature painter * Samuel Cooper (clergyman) (1725–1783), Congregationalist minister in Boston, Massachusetts * Samuel Cooper (surgeon) (1780–1848), English su ...

(c.1608–1672) – English

miniature A miniature is a small-scale reproduction, or a small version. It may refer to: * Portrait miniature, a miniature portrait painting * Miniature art, miniature painting, engraving and sculpture * Miniature food, small edible or inedible versions o ...

painter *

John Michael Wright John Michael Wright (May 1617 – July 1694) was an English painter, mainly of portraits in the Baroque style. Born and raised in London, Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and sometimes described himself as Scot ...

(1617–1694) – British

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

portrait painter Portrait painting is a Hierarchy of genres, genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commissio ...

Peter Lely Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 30 November 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. He became a naturalised British subject and was kn ...

(1618–1680) – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England * Francis Barlow (c.1626–1704) – English painter, etcher, and illustrator *

David Loggan David Loggan (1634–1692) was an English baroque engraver, draughtsman, and painter. Life He was baptised on 27 August 1634 in Danzig, then a semi-autonomous city (granted by the Danzig law) within Polish Prussia (''Prusy Królewskie'') ...

(1635–1692) – English baroque painter, born in Danzig *

Godfrey Kneller Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was a German-born British painter. The leading Portrait painting, portraitist in England during the late Stuart period, Stuart and early Georgian eras ...

(1646/9–1723) –

in England * Edward Pierce (1630–1695) *

Francis Place Francis Place (3 November 1771, London – 1 January 1854, London) was an English social reformer described as "a ubiquitous figure in the machinery of radical London." Background and early life He was an illegitimate son of Simon Place and M ...

(1647–1728) – English potter and engraver *

James Thornhill Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition. He was responsible for some large-scale schemes of murals, including the "Painted Hall" at the R ...

(1675–1734) – English painter of

historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

subjects *

Jonathan Richardson Jonathan Richardson (12 January 1667 – 28 May 1745), sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son (Jonathan Richardson the Younger), was an English artist, collector of drawings and writer on art, working almost entirely as a ...

(1665–1745) – English portrait painter *

Peter Monamy Peter Monamy was an English marine painter who lived between 1681 and 1749. Early life and family Peter Monamy was baptised at the church of St Botolph's-without-Aldgate, London, England, on 12 January 1681 (new style). His name seems t ...

(1681–1749) – English marine painter *

John Wootton John Wootton (c.1686– 13 November 1764)Deuchar, S. (2003). "Wootton, John". Grove Art Online. was an English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes, and illustrator. Life Born in Snitterfield, Warwickshire (near Stratfo ...

(1682–1764) – English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and

landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

Pieter Andreas Rysbrack Pieter Andreas Rijsbrack (1685 or 1690 – 1748) (sometimes Anglicized as Peter Rysbrack) was a Flemish painter of still lifes and landscape art, landscapes who was active in England in the first half of the 18th century.

(1685 or 1690–1748) – Flemish painter working in London *

John Michael Rysbrack Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack, often referred to simply as Michael Rysbrack (24 June 1694 – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor, who spent most of his career in England where h ...

(1694–1770) –

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

working in London *

John Vanderbank John Vanderbank (9 September 1694 – 23 December 1739) was an English painter who enjoyed a high reputation during the last decade of George I of Great Britain, George I's reign and remained in high fashion in the first decade of George II ...

(1694–1739) – English portrait painter and book illustrator *

William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraving, engraver, pictorial social satire, satirist, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from Realism (visual arts), realistic p ...

(1697–1764) – English painter, printmaker, pictorial

satirist This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires. Early satirical authors *Aes ...

social critic Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general. Social criticism of the Enlightenment The origin of modern ...

and editorial

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...

Born 1700–1799

* Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865) – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects *

Louis-François Roubiliac Louis-François Roubiliac (or Roubilliac, or Roubillac) (31 August 1702 – 11 January 1762) was a French sculpture, sculptor who worked in England. One of the four most prominent sculptors in London working in the rococo style, he was described ...

(1702/5–1762) – French sculptor whose works reside in

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British m ...

* Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter * James Seymour (c.1702–1752) – English painter especially of

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art *

William Hoare William Hoare, RA ( – 12 December 1792) was an English painter. From 1740 to 1759, he was the leading oil portraitist at Bath, Somerset until Thomas Gainsborough arrived in the town. Noted for his pastels, Hoare was a co-founder of the R ...

(c.1707–1792) – English painter especially of

pastel A pastel () is an art medium that consists of powdered pigment and a binder (material), binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms. The pigments used in pastels are ...

s *

Francis Hayman Francis Hayman (1708 – 2 February 1776) was an English painter and illustrator who became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and later its first librarian. Life and works Born in Exeter, Devon, Hayman begun his arti ...

(1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its ...

Arthur Devis Arthur Devis (19 February 1712 – 25 July 1787) was an English artist whose father, Anthony, was progenitor of what became a family dynasty of painters and writers. The place of Arthur Devis in art history is generally as painter of the type ...

(c.1712–1787) – English

painter, especially of

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s and other small portraits *

Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay may refer to: *Allan Ramsay (poet) or Allan Ramsay the Elder (1686–1758), Scottish poet *Allan Ramsay (artist) Allan Ramsay (13 October 171310 August 1784) was a Scottish portrait Painting, painter. Life and career Ramsay w ...

(1713–1784) –

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

portrait painter * Richard Wilson (1713–1782) –

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landscape painter and one of the founder members of the

Alexander Cozens Alexander Cozens (1717–23 April 1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He taught drawing and wrote treatises on the subject, evolving a method in which imaginative drawings of landscapes could ...

(c.1717–1786) – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting *

Charles Brooking Charles Brooking ( –1759) was an English painter of marine scenes. Life It is highly probable that Brooking’s father was a Charles Brooking (1677–1738) who was recorded as employed by Greenwich Hospital (London) between 1729 and 1736 ...

(1723–1759) – English painter *

Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell (art critic), John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century, while Lucy P ...

(1723–1792) – English painter specialising in portraits *

George Stubbs George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thoma ...

(1724–1806) –

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painter especially of horses * James Lambert (1725–1788) – English landscape painter *

Francis Cotes Francis Cotes (20 May 1726 – 16 July 1770) was an English portrait painter, one of the pioneers of English pastel painting (or drawing), and a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. Life and work He was born in London, the eldest so ...

(1726–1770) – English painter *

Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists o ...

(1727–1788) – English portrait and landscape painter *

Paul Sandby Paul Sandby (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned Landscape art, landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas Sandby, Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 17 ...

(1730–1809) – English

map A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space. A map may be annotated with text and graphics. Like any graphic, a map may be fixed to paper or other durable media, or may be displayed on ...

-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours *

Sawrey Gilpin Sawrey Gilpin (30 October 1733 – 8 March 1807) was an English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses and dogs. He was made a Royal Academician. Life and work Gilpin was born in Carlisle, Cumbria ...

(1733–1807) – English animal painter *

Johann Zoffany Johan / Johann Joseph Zoffany (born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij; 13 March 1733 – 11 November 1810) was a German neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, Italy, and India. His works appear in many prominent British collections ...

(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 Alexander Runciman (15 August 1736 – 4 October 1785) was a Scottish people, Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He was the elder brother of John Runciman, also a painter. Life He was born in Edinburgh, and studied at ...

(1736–1785) – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects *

Mary Black Mary Black (born 23 May 1955) is an Irish folk singer. She is well known as an interpreter of both traditional folk and modern material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland. Background Mary Black was born into a m ...

(c.1737–1814) – English portrait painter *

Joseph Nollekens Joseph Nollekens R.A. (11 August 1737 – 23 April 1823) was a sculptor from London generally considered to be the finest British sculptor of the late 18th century. Life Nollekens was born on 11 August 1737 at 28 Dean Street, Soho, London, ...

(1737–1823) –

from London *

Francis Towne Francis Towne (1739 – 7 July 1816) was a British watercolour painter of landscapes that range from the English Lake District to Naples and Rome. After a long period of obscurity, his work has been increasingly recognised from the early 20th ...

(1739/40–1816) – English watercolour painter *

Angelica Kauffman Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( ; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss people, Swiss Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered prima ...

(1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter *

Philip James de Loutherbourg Philip James de Loutherbourg, RA (born Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg; 31 October 174011 March 1812) was a French-born British painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invent ...

(1740–1812) – English artist of French origin *

William Marlow William Marlow (1740 – 14 January 1813) was an English landscape and marine painter and etcher. Life Marlow was born in Southwark, London. He spent five years as a pupil of the marine painter Samuel Scott, and also studied at the St. Ma ...

(1740–1813) – English landscape and marine artist *

John Hamilton Mortimer John Hamilton Mortimer (17 September 1740 – 4 February 1779) was a British figure and landscape painter and printmaker, known for romantic paintings set in Italy, works depicting conversations, and works drawn in the 1770s portraying war s ...

(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 Henry Fuseli ( ; ; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his successful works depict supernatural experiences, such as '' The Nightmare''. He pr ...

(1741–1825) – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin *

Richard Cosway Richard Cosway (5 November 1742 – 4 July 1821) was a leading English portrait painter of the Georgian and Regency era, noted for his miniatures. He was a contemporary of John Smart, George Engleheart, William Wood, and Richard Cross ...

(1742–1821) – English portrait painter, miniaturist *

Ozias Humphry Ozias Humphry (or Humphrey) (8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810) was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed ''Port ...

(1742–1810) – English painter of

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John Robert Cozens John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) was a British draftsman and painter of romantic watercolour landscapes. Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospheric effects and illusions which had an influence on Thomas Girtin and J ...

(1752–1797) – English

draftsman A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawi ...

and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes *

Thomas Bewick Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood engraving, wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, ...

(1753–1828) – English

wood engraver Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively lo ...

and

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

Thomas Stothard Thomas Stothard (17 August 1755 – 27 April 1834) was a British painter, illustrator and engraver. His son, Robert T. Stothard was a painter (floruit, fl. 1810): he painted the proclamation outside York Minster of Queen Victoria's accession to ...

(1755–1834 – English painter and engraver * Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist *

Henry Raeburn Sir Henry Raeburn (; 4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland. Biography Raeburn was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, on the Water of Leith: a f ...

(1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter *

Thomas Rowlandson Thomas Rowlandson (; 13 July 1757 – 21 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual soc ...

(1756–1827) – English artist and

caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Abril Lamarque (1904–1999) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfre ...

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic poetry, poetry and visual art of the Roma ...

(1757–1827) – English

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

, painter, and

Alexander Nasmyth Alexander Nasmyth (9 September 175810 April 1840) was a Scottish portrait and Landscape art, landscape Painting, painter, a pupil of Allan Ramsay (artist), Allan Ramsay. He also undertook several architectural commissions. Biography Nasmyth ...

(1758–1840) – Scottish portrait and landscape painter *

Lemuel Francis Abbott Lemuel "Francis" Abbott (1760/61 – 5 December 1803) was an English Portrait painting, portrait painter, famous for his painting of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (currently hanging in the Terracotta Room of number 10 Downing Street) and fo ...

(1760–1803) – English portrait painter *

Thomas Lawrence Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English people, English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was a ...

(1760–1830) – English painter, mostly of portraits * Charles Fairfield (1761?–1805) – English painter, mostly known as a copyist *

John Charles Felix Rossi John Charles Felix Rossi (8 March 1762 – 21 February 1839), often simply known as Charles Rossi, was an English sculptor. Life Early life and education Rossi was born on 8 March 1762 at Nottingham, where his father Ananso, an Italian from Si ...

(1762–1839) – sculptor *

Arthur William Devis Arthur William Devis (10 August 1762 – 11 February 1822) was an English painter of history paintings and portraits. He painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited (1779–1821) at the Royal Academy. Among his mo ...

(1762–1822) – English painter of

history painting History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and B ...

s and

portraits A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...

George Morland George Morland (26 June 176329 October 1804) was an English painter. His early work was influenced by Francis Wheatley, but after the 1790s he came into his own style. His best compositions focus on rustic scenes: farms and hunting; smugglers an ...

(1763–1804) – English painter of animals and rustic scenes *

Joshua Cristall Joshua Cristall (1767–1847) was an English painter. For a time he was president of the Royal Watercolour Society, Society of Painters in Water-Colours, a medium in which he showed a pleasing freedom and simplicity of style. Life Cristall was b ...

(1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter *

John Crome John Crome (22 December 176822 April 1821), once known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his artist son John Berney Crome, was an English Landscape painting, landscape painter of the Romanticism, Romantic era, one of the principal artists ...

(1768–1821) – English artist, founder of the

Norwich school Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a private selective day school in the close of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. Among the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, it has a traceable history to 1096 as an episcop ...

of painters *

Martin Archer Shee Sir Martin Archer Shee (23 December 1769 – 13 August 1850) was an Irish portrait painter. He also served as the president of the Royal Academy. Early life He was born in Dublin, of an old Irish Roman Catholic family, the son of Martin Shee ...

(1769–1850) – Irish painter and President of the Royal Academy *

(1769–1820) – English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy * James Ward (1769–1859) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver *

Thomas Phillips Thomas Phillips (18 October 1770 – 20 April 1845) was a leading English portrait and subject painter. He painted many of the notable men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explorers. Life and work Phillips was bor ...

(1770–1845) – English portrait and subject painter * Henry James Richter (1772–1857) – engraver and painter * François Hüet Villiers (1772–1813) – French-born portrait painter, resident in London * Anne Frances Byrne (1775–1837) – painter of flowers and still lifes *

Thomas Girtin Thomas Girtin (18 February 17759 November 1802) was an England, English watercolour, watercolourist and etcher. A friend and rival of J. M. W. Turner, Girtin played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form. Life Thomas G ...

(1775–1802) – English painter, watercolourist, and

Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet (December 1775 – 16 January 1852), of Rodborough, was an English landowner, banker, painter, and occasional author. Most of Paul’s works as a painter were landscapes and paintings of horses. In 1821 he was crea ...

(1775–1852) – painter of landscapes and horses *

J. M. W. Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbu ...

(1775–1851) – English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker *

John Constable John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romanticism, Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedha ...

(1776–1837) – English Romantic painter *

John Higton John Higton (2 April 1775 – 23 December 1827) was an English animal painter, who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. He was a friend of Edward Dayes and Thomas Campbell, and his patrons included Lord Sedley (Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Ba ...

(1776–1827) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver * Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820) – painter of religious subjects *

John Masey Wright John Masey Wright (1777–1866) was a British watercourist. He was the son of an organ-builder and was apprenticed to the same business, but, as it proved distasteful to him, he was allowed to follow his natural inclination for art. As a boy he ...

(1777–1866) – watercolour painter * John Varley (1778–1842) – English watercolour painter and

astrologer Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions ...

Augustus Wall Callcott Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (20 February 177925 November 1844) was an English landscape painter. Life and work Callcott was born at Kensington Gravel Pits, a village on the western edge of London, in the area now known as Notting Hill Gate ...

(1779–1844) – English landscape painter *

Samuel Colman Samuel Colman (March 4, 1832 – March 26, 1920) was an American painter, interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River. Life and career Born in Portland, Maine, Colman moved to New York City ...

(1780–1845) – English painter *

James Holworthy James Holworthy (1781–1841) was a British watercolour artist. Some of Holworthy's art can be seen in the Tate Gallery. Holworthy exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803 and 1804. In the latter year he was one of the foundation members of the S ...

(1781–1841) – watercolour painter *

John Sell Cotman John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782 – 24 July 1842) was an English Marine art, marine and Landscape painting, landscape painter, Etching, etcher, illustrator, and a leading member of the Norwich School of painters. Born in Norwich, the son of a si ...

(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 Samuel Prout painted by John Jackson in 1831 Market Day by Samuel Prout A View in Nuremberg by Samuel Prout Utrecht Town Hall by Samuel Prout in 1841 Samuel Prout (; 17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was a British watercolourist, and ...

(1783–1852) – English watercolour painter * Peter De Wint (1784–1849) – English

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...

painter * John Romney (1785–1863) – mainly

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proces ...

and watercolour * David Wilkie (1785–1841) –

painter *

William Mulready William Mulready (1 April 1786 – 7 July 1863) was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticising depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets, issued at the same time as the ...

(1786–1863) – Irish

genre Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...

painter living in London *

Benjamin Haydon Benjamin Robert Haydon (; 26 January 178622 June 1846) was a British painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactle ...

(1786–1846) – English historical painter and writer *

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (22 November 1787 – 3 March 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, and famous for his watercolour landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pup ...

(1787-1855) - English watercolor painter of landscapes * Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831) – Scottish landscape painter * John Martin (1789–1854) – English painter * William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) – English watercolor painter *

George Hayter Sir George Hayter (17 December 1792 – 18 January 1871) was an England, English Painting, painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving sometimes several hundred individual portraits. Queen Victoria appreciated his merits and app ...

(1792–1871) English painter, specialising in portraits *

John Linnell John Sidney Linnell ( ; born June 12, 1959) is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist, and is one half of the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, with John Flansburgh, which was formed in 1982. In addition to sing ...

(1792–1882) – English landscape painter *

Francis Danby Francis Danby (16 November 1793 – 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. His imaginative, dramatic landscapes were comparable to those of John Martin. Danby initially developed his imaginative style while he was the cen ...

(1793–1861) – Irish painter * Edward Calvert (1799–1883) – English

and painter * James Holland (1799–1870) – landscape painter and illustrator *

David Ogborne David Ogborne (died 1800–1801) was an English artist. He depicted local events and curiosities in his home county Essex. Life Ogborne married and settled before 1740 in Chelmsford, Essex, where he is described in the register as a "painter" or " ...

(died 1800/1) – English painter of events and curiosities in Essex *

Eglington Margaret Pearson Eglington Margaret Pearson (''née'' Paterson; baptised 5 November 1746 – 14 February 1823) was an English stained glass painter. Biography Pearson was the daughter of Samuel Paterson, a noted London bookseller. Her mother, whose maiden name was ...

(died 1823) – stained glass painter *

Cosmo Armstrong Cosmo Armstrong ( 1771–1847), was an English line-engraver. He was the son of John Armstrong and apprenticed to John Gyde, citizen and loriner 6 June 1787. Armstrong was a pupil of Thomas Milton, the landscape-engraver. He was a governor of ...

(died 1847) – English line-engraver

Born 1800–1899

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Richard Parkes Bonington Richard Parkes Bonington (25 October 1802 – 23 September 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter. He moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English styl ...

(1802–1828) – English Romantic landscape painter *

Edwin Henry Landseer Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. His best-known work is the lion sculptures at the base of Nelso ...

(1802–1873) – English painter and sculptor especially of animals, particularly horses, dogs, and

stag A deer (: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) a ...

s *

Thomas Shotter Boys Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer. Life Boys was born at Pentonville, London, on 2 January 1803. He was articled to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship came to an end he went t ...

(1803–1874) – English watercolourist *

Thomas Sidney Cooper Thomas Sidney Cooper (26 September 18037 February 1902) was an English landscape painter from Canterbury, noted for his images of cattle and farm animals. Early life Thomas Sidney Cooper was born in St Peter's Street in Canterbury, Ken ...

(1803–1902) – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals *

John Steell Sir John Robert Steell (Aberdeen 18 September 1804 – 15 September 1891) was a Scottish sculptor. He modelled many of the leading figures of Scottish history and culture, and is best known for a number of sculptures displayed in Edinburgh, ...

(1804–1891) – Scottish sculptor *

John Frederick Lewis John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) was an English Orientalist painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes in detailed watercolour or oils, very often repeating the same composition in a version in each medium. He lived for s ...

(1804–1876) – Orientalist English painter *

Samuel Palmer Samuel Palmer Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (27 January 180524 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and p ...

(1805–1881) – English landscape painter, etcher, and printmaker *

William Dyce William Dyce (; 19 September 1806 in Aberdeen14 February 1864) was a Scottish painter, who played a part in the formation of public art education in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and the South Kensington Schoo ...

(1806–1864) – Scottish artist *

John Greville Fennell John Greville Fennell (1807–1885) was a British artist, naturalist, and angler. Life Fennell was born at sea between Ireland and England in 1807. He began his career as an artist by winning the silver medal offered by the Duke of Sussex for a ...

(1807–1885) – landscape painter * Arthur Elliot (1809–1892) – British watercolourist * Thomas Mogford (1809–1868) – English portrait painter and landscape painter *

James John Hill James John Hill (1811 – 27 January 1882), known also by his alias J. J. Hill, was an English landscape and portrait painter, known for his many rustic paintings and portraits of Lady Burdett-Coutts. Early life and career James John Hill was ...

(1811–1882) – English painter *

Edmund John Niemann Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) was a prolific and highly successful British landscape artist working mostly in oils. Nine of his paintings are held in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Life and work Niemann was born in Islington, London in 181 ...

(1813–1876) – English painter * Lucette Barker (1816–1905) – English painter *

William James Blacklock William James Blacklock (3 March 1816 – 12 March 1858) was an English landscape painter, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders. Biography Blacklock was born in Shoreditch, London, the second of five children. ...

(1816–1858) – English landscape artist, painting scenery in

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...

, the

Lake District The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...

and the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the we ...

Edward Armitage Edward Armitage (20 May 1817 – 24 May 1896) was an English Victorian-era painter whose work focused on historical, classical and biblical subjects. Family background Armitage was born in London to a family of wealthy Yorkshire industrialist ...

(1817–1896) – English

Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used. The era followed the ...

painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects *

Richard Dadd Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule ...

(1817–1886) – English painter especially of

fairies A fairy (also called fay, fae, fae folk, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Cel ...

and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic

scenes *

Walter Hood Fitch Walter Hood Fitch (28 February 1817 – 14 January 1892) was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications. His work in colour lithograph, including 2700 illustrations for ''C ...

(1817–1892) – Scottish

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

and

botanical artist Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive about subjects depicted and are often found printed alongside a botanical description in boo ...

Alfred Tippinge Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Tippinge, Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order, KCH (2 May 1817 – 2 August 1898) was a British Army officer. As a Grenadier Guards, Grenadier Guard he "served with distinction" in four fields of the Crimean ...

(1817–1898) – British Grenadier Guard who sent home paintings of the

Crimean War The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...

George Frederic Watts George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolism (arts), Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as ''Hope (Watts), Hop ...

(1817–1904) – English

Victorian Victorian or Victorians may refer to: 19th century * Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign ** Victorian architecture ** Victorian house ** Victorian decorative arts ** Victorian fashion ** Victorian literatur ...

painter and sculptor of the

Symbolist Symbolism or symbolist may refer to: *Symbol, any object or sign that represents an idea Arts *Artistic symbol, an element of a literary, visual, or other work of art that represents an idea ** Color symbolism, the use of colors within various c ...

movement *

Branwell Brontë Patrick Branwell Brontë (, commonly ; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was an English painter and writer. He was the only son of the Brontë family, and brother of the writers Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte, Emily Brontë, Emily, and Anne Bro ...

(1817–1848) – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of

Anne Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female name Anna (name), Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah (given name), Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie (given name), Annie a ...

Emily Emily may refer to: * Emily (given name), including a list of people with the name Music * "Emily" (1964 song), title song by Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer to the film ''The Americanization of Emily'' * "Emily" (Dave Koz song), a 1990 song ...

and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer * William Hemsley (1819–1906) – English genre painter; vice president of the

Society of British Artists The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy. History The RBA commenced with twenty-seven members, and took until 1876 to reach fi ...

William Powell Frith William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting ''The Slee ...

(1819–1909) – English painter specialising in portraits and

narratives *

George Gammon Adams George Gammon Adams (21 April 1821 – 14 March 1898; sometimes spelled George Gamon Adams or George Gannon Adams) was an English portrait sculptor and medallist,Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often William Hogarth, Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his mos ...

(1821–1893) – English painter of moral and historical subjects *

Lefevre James Cranstone Lefevre James Cranstone (March 6, 1822 – June 22, 1893) was an English artist known for his watercolor genre-style landscapes and oil paintings. He visited the United States, where many of his works are displayed, and later moved to Australia. ...

(1822–1893) – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America * Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910) – Anglo-Irish artist *

Frederick Goodall Frederick Goodall (17 September 1822 – 29 July 1904) was a British artist. Life Frederick Goodall was born in London in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795–1870). He received his education at the Well ...

(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 Henry Alexander Bowler (30 November 1824 – 6 August 1903) was an English artist. He was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts for many years, and exhibited paintings there. Life Bowler was born in the Kensington district of London, son of Cha ...

(1824–1903) – English painter and academic *

Abraham Solomon Abraham Solomon (London 7 May 1823 – 19 December 1862 Biarritz) was a British painter. The second son of eight children born to Meyer Solomon, a Leghorn hat manufacturer and his wife Catherine (Kate) Levy. His father was one of the firs ...

(1824–1862) – English painter *

Thomas Woolner Thomas Woolner (17 December 1825 – 7 October 1892) was an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members. After participating in the found ...

(1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet *

Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, a philanthropist and her greatest skill was as a facilitator. She was a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women ...

(1827–1891) – English educationalist and landscape artist *

William Holman Hunt William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism ...

(1827–1910) – British painter, founder of the

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossett ...

Robert Taylor Pritchett Robert Taylor Pritchett (24 February 1828 – 16 June 1907) was a gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. As artist he painted royal ceremonies for Queen Victoria, and he illustrated Darwin's ''The Voyage of the Beagle''. Early life and career ...

(1828–1907) – English watercolourist and illustrator *

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( ; ), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brother ...

(1828–1882) – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator * Anna Blunden (1829–1915) – English painter * James Docharty (1829–1878) – Scottish landscape painter *

Edwin Long Edwin Longsden Long (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. Life and works Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset), and was edu ...

(1829–1890) – English orientalist painter, depicting

Biblical The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) biblical languages ...

and Middle Eastern subjects *

John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet ( , ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest s ...

(1829–1896) – English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the

* John Henry Dell (1830–1888) – English painter and illustrator *

Alfred William Hunt Alfred William Hunt (15 November 1830 – 3 May 1896), was a British painter. He was son of the landscapist Andrew Hunt (painter), Andrew Hunt. Biography Hunt was born in Liverpool in 1830. He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiat ...

(1830–1896) – English painter *

Frederic Leighton Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and clas ...

(1830–1896) – English painter and sculptor especially of historical,

biblical The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) biblical languages ...

and classical subject matter *

Charles James Lewis Charles James Lewis (1830 – 28 January 1892) was an English painter in oils and watercolours. Life Lewis was born in 1830 in Chelsea, London; his father, Charles Thomas Lewis, had Welsh ancestry. He first exhibited in 1853, when at the Royal ...

(1830–1892) – English painter in oils and watercolours *

Marianne North Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and th ...

(1830–1890) – English

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

and flower painter * Walter Severn (1830–1904) – English watercolourist * John William Bailey (1831–1914) –

painter *

Benjamin Williams Leader Benjamin Williams Leader (12 March 1831 – 22 March 1923) was a British landscape painter. Life and work Early years and training Leader was born in Worcester, England, Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and third child of e ...

(1831–1923) – English painter *

Louise Rayner Louise Ingram Rayner (21 June 1832 – 8 October 1924) was a British watercolour artist. Family Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire.Simon Fenwick, ‘Rayner, Samuel (1806–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford ...

(1832–1924) – English watercolourist * Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) – English painter and illustrator associated with the

William Quiller Orchardson Sir William Quiller Orchardson (27 March 1832 – 13 April 1910) was a Scotland, Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects who was knighted in June 1907, at the age of 75. Early years Orchardson was born in Edinbur ...

(1832–1910) – Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects *

Daniel Charles Grose Daniel Charles Grose (1832 – 1900) was a prolific Canadian-American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between 1864 and 1900. Primarily known for his pastoral landscapes, on occasion he also created marine views. Somewhat at vari ...

(1832–1900) – English painter *

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August 183317 June 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding part ...

(1833–1898) – English artist and designer * Joseph Clark (1834–1926) – English oil painter of domestic scenes *

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...

(1834–1896) – English artist, writer, and socialist *

James McNeill Whistler James Abbott McNeill Whistler (; July 10, 1834July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral a ...

(1834–1903) – American-born,

-based painter and etcher * Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906) – English painter of churches and cathedrals *

William McTaggart William McTaggart (25 October 1835 – 2 April 1910) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter who was influenced by Impressionism. Life and work The son of a crofter, William McTaggart was born in the small village of Aros, near Cam ...

(1835–1910) – Scottish landscape painter *

Arthur Boyd Houghton Arthur Boyd Houghton (13 March 1836 – 25 November 1875) was a British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator. Houghton was born in Kotagiri, Madras, India. His work was varied and was highly regarded during the mid-19th century. ...

(1836–1875) – British painter (

oil An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturate ...

and

s) and illustrator *

John Atkinson Grimshaw John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes.Alexander Robertson, ''Atkinson Grimshaw'', London, Phaidon Press, 1996 H. J. Dyos and ...

(1836–1893) – English painter especially of landscapes *

Lawrence Alma-Tadema Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( ; born Lourens Alma Tadema, ; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch people, Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised Denization, denizen in 1873. Born in ...

(1836–1912) –

classical-subject painter *

James Tissot Jacques Joseph Tissot (; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), better known as James Tissot ( , ), was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a y ...

(1836–1902) – French-born painter of portraits as well as

subjects *

John Sowden John Sowden (1838–1926) was a watercolourist based in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He is known for painting of local Bradford dignitaries and a series of pictures depicting street characters in the city. Sowden was born on 1 ...

(1838–1926) – English watercolourist *

Horatio Joseph Lucas Horatio Joseph Lucas (1839-1873), was an English artist. Lucas was born in London on 27 May 1839, the fourth son of Louis Lucas, a West India merchant, and belonged to an old Jewish family. Lucas was educated at Brighton and at University College ...

(1839–1873) – English artist *

Simeon Solomon Simeon Solomon (9 October 1840 – 14 August 1905) was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life and same-sex desire. His career was cut short as a result of public scandal following h ...

(1840–1905) – English

Pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, ...

painter * Frederick Walker (1840–1875) – English

Social Realist Social realism is work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers and some musicians that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures ...

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 Alexander Michael Rossi (born September 25, 1991) is an American racing driver, who competes in the IndyCar Series for Ed Carpenter Racing, Ed Carpenter. Rossi competed in Formula One at five Formula One Grands Prix, Grands Prix in . In America ...

(1841–1916) – British artist specializing in

genre works Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...

* Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – British marine painter and watercolourist *

William John Seward Webber William John Seward Webber (January 1842 – c. 17 March 1919) was an English sculptor who created civic statuary, and bust (sculpture), busts of national heroes and local worthies, in marble. He sculpted the statue of Queen Victoria for the Go ...

(1842–1919) – English sculptor *

Lucy Madox Brown Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (19 July 1843 – 12 April 1894) was a British artist, author, and model associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. She was married to the writer and art critic William Michael Rossetti. Early life Madox Brown was born in Pa ...

(1843–1894) – English painter and watercolourist *

Walter Crane Walter Crane (15 August 184514 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Ka ...

(1845–1915) – English artist and book illustrator *

Frank Holl Francis Montague Holl (London 4 July 1845 – 31 July 1888 London) was a British painter, specialising in somewhat sentimental paintings with a moment from a narrative situation, often drawing on the trends of social realism and the proble ...

(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 Ralph Hedley (31 December 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East of England. Biography Born in Gilling West near Richmond, N ...

(1848–1913) – English realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator *

John William Waterhouse John William Waterhouse (baptised 6 April 184910 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His paintings are known for ...

(1849–1917) – English

painter especially of female characters from

mythology Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the ...

and literature *

Henry Richard Hope-Pinker Henry Richard Hope-Pinker (1850 – 3 August 1927) was a British sculptor, notable for his portraits and statues of contemporary Victorian figures. Biography Hope-Pinker was born in Peckham in southeast London. His father was a builder and maste ...

(1850–1927) – English sculptor *

John Collier John Collier may refer to: Arts and entertainment * John Collier (caricaturist) (1708–1786), English caricaturist and satirical poet *John Payne Collier (1789–1883), English Shakespearian critic and forger *John Collier (painter) (1850–1934) ...

(1850–1934) – British writer and painter in the

style * Robert Weir Allan (1851–1942) – Glasgow-born painter of landscape and marine subjects *

John Charles Dollman John Charles Dollman RWS RI ROI (6 May 1851 – 11 December 1934) was an English painter and illustrator. Life Dollman was born in Hove on 6 May 1851 and moved to London to study at South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools, after wh ...

(1851–1934) – English narrative, landscape and animal painter *

Edward Robert Hughes Edward Robert Hughes (5 November 1851 – 23 April 1914) was a British painter, who primarily worked in watercolours, but also produced a number of oil paintings. He was influenced by his uncle and artist, Arthur Hughes who was associated ...

(1851–1914) – English painter in a Pre-Raphaelitism and

Aestheticism Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to b ...

style *

Edmund Leighton Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 1852 – 1 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteen ...

(1853–1922) – English painter in

and Romantic styles *

Frank Dicksee Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (27 November 1853 – 17 October 1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portr ...

(1853–1928) – English

painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes * Maude Goodman (1853–1938) (a.k.a. Matilda Scanes) – English

fine art painter and children's book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings *

Caroline Gotch Caroline Burland Gotch (née Yates, 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artist and part of the Newlyn School. Biography Gotch was born in Liverpool. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Edward Yates, a wealthy local propert ...

(1854–1945) – English painter associated with the

Newlyn School The Newlyn School was an art colony of artists based in or near Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, on the south coast of Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early twentieth century. The establishment of the Newlyn School was remini ...

of artists * Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) – English painter *

Alfred Wallis Alfred Wallis (18 August 1855 – 29 August 1942) was a British artist and fisherman, known for his port landscapes and shipping scenes painted in a naïve style. Having no artistic training, he began painting at the age of 70, using househo ...

(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 Alfred William Rich (4 March 1856 – 7 September 1921) was an English artist, teacher and author. Life and work Rich was born between Scaynes Hill and Lindfield in Sussex. His study of art began at the age of eight, as a self-taught stu ...

(1856–1921) – English landscape artist *

John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 15, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era, Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil ...

(1856–1925) – Expatriate American living in England; leading portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolourist *

Richard Caton Woodville Richard Caton Woodville (30 April 1825 – 13 August 1855) was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Karl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of mor ...

(1856–1927) – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes *

Joseph Benwell Clark Joseph Benwell Clark (185713 February 1938) was an English painter, etcher, engraver in mezzotint and drypoint, and book illustrator. ''Victorian Painters'' describes Clark as a London painter of rustic subjects. Early life Born at Cerne Abbas ...

(1857–1938) – English landscape painter and book illustrator *

Stanhope Forbes Stanhope Alexander Forbes (18 November 1857 – 2 March 1947) was an Irish artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. He was often called 'the father of the Newlyn School'.Arthur Hacker Arthur Hacker (St Pancras, London, St Pancras, Middlesex, 25 September 1858 – 12 November 1919 Kensington, London) was an England, English classicist painter. Biography Hacker was the son of Edward Hacker (1812–1905), a line eng ...

(1858–1919) – English classicist painter *

Henry Scott Tuke Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929) was an English artist. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style and he is best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men. Trained at the Slade School of Art under Alphons ...

(1858–1929) – English painter who lived in Cornwall, best known for his maritime paintings and male nudes *

Walter Sickert Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on d ...

(1860–1942) – English

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painter *

Solomon Joseph Solomon Solomon Joseph Solomon (16 September 1860 – 27 July 1927) was a British painter, a founding member of the New English Art Club and member of the Royal Academy. Solomon's family was Jewish, and his sister, Lily Delissa Joseph (née S ...

(1860–1927) – English painter of mythological scenes and portraits *

Philip Wilson Steer Philip Wilson Steer (28 December 1860 – 18 March 1942) was a British painter of landscapes, seascapes plus portraits and figure studies. He was also an influential art teacher. His sea and landscape paintings made him a leading figure in ...

(1860–1942) – English artist * Harriet Isabel Adams (1863–1952) – British artist and illustrator * Lily Delissa Joseph (1863–1940) – English painter *

Charles Edgar Buckeridge Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864 – 11 May 1898) was an English church decorative artist and the son of Charles Buckeridge, a Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival architect. Life and career Born in Headington, Oxford in 1864, the son of ...

(1864–1898) – church decorative artist *

Archibald Standish Hartrick Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work. His works covered urban scenes, landscapes and figure painting and he was a founder member of the Senefelde ...

(1864–1950) – Scottish painter *

Arthur Wardle Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) was a British painter. Born in London, aged just sixteen Wardle had a piece displayed at the Royal Academy. His first exhibit was a study of cattle by the River Thames, leading to a lifelong interest in painting an ...

(1864–1949) – English painter * William Edwin Pimm (1864–1952) – British artist, oil and watercolours *

Thomas Edwin Mostyn Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864 – 1930) was an English artist who worked during the late Victorian era and the early 20th-century art, 20th century. Mostyn's works are mainly remembered from his idealistic and romantic garden scenes, as well as va ...

(1864–1930) – English painter *

Arthur Lowe (painter) Arthur Lowe (1865 – 1940) was a member of the Nottingham Society of Artists, exhibiting there first in 1898, exhibited twice at the Royal Academy (the first time in 1900, exhibiting one work called ''October'', the second time was in 1916 wi ...

(1865–1940) – English landscape artist from Kinoulton,

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...

* Robert Bevan (1865–1925) – British painter * H. Gustave Hiller (1865–1946) – mainly of stained glass *

Roger Fry Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and art critic, critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent ...

(1866–1934) – English artist and art critic *

Henry Charles Fehr Henry Charles Fehr FRBS (4 November 1867 – 13 May 1940) was a British monumental and architectural sculptor active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He produced several notable public sculptures, war memorials and works fo ...

(1867–1940) – English sculptor *

Norah Fulcher Norah Manning Fulcher (1867–1945), was a commercially successful watercolour portrait artist, living and working in London for four decades, between 1898 and 1939. Early life and art education Norah Fulcher was born in November 1867 i ...

(1867–1945) – English watercolour portrait artist *

Mabel Lee Hankey Mabel Lee Hankey (née Mabel Emily Hobson, 14 October 1867 – 5 January 1943) was a British artist specialising in miniature portraits painted in watercolour. Family and early life Mabel Lee Hankey was born Mabel Emily Hobson, the fourth ch ...

(1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory *

Frank Brangwyn Sir Frank William Brangwyn (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator and designer. Brangwyn worked in a wide range of artistic fields. As well as paintings and drawings, he produc ...

(1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer *

J M Balliol Salmon Arthur John Balliol Salmon (1868 – 1953) was a British artist particularly noted for his illustrations and his work in pencil, chalk and pastels. He was one of the twenty leading illustrators selected by Percy V. Bradshaw for inclusion in his ...

(1868–1953) – British painter * Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954) – English painter * Ursula Wood (1868–1925) – English painter *

Lamorna Birch Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (7 June 1869 – 7 January 1955) was an English artist in oils and watercolours. At the suggestion of fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, Birch adopted the ''soubriquet'' "Lamorna" to distinguish himself from Li ...

(1869–1955) – English painter *

Lucy Kemp-Welch Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (20 June 1869 – 27 November 1958) was a British artist and teacher who specialized in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, from the late 1890s to the mid-1920s she was one o ...

(1869–1958) – English equine artist *

Henry Crocket Henry Edgar Crocket (1870–1926) was a landscape, figure and portrait painter. He was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society where he exhibited 49 pictures. He also exhibited 14 paintings at the Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts ...

(1870–1926) – landscape painter *

William Ratcliffe William Ratcliffe VC MM (18 January 1884 – 26 March 1963) was an English private of South Lancashire Regiment. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can b ...

(1870–1955) – English artist * Phelan Gibb (1870–1948) – British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910–1914 *

Sholto Johnstone Douglas Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas (3 December 1871 – 10 March 1958), known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish figurative artist, a painter chiefly of portraits and landscapes. In 1895, he stood surety ...

(1871–1958) – Scottish artist * Florence Engelbach (1872–1951) – English painter born in Spain *

Alfred Garth Jones Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour. Early life Alfred Jones was born in Hulme, Manchester in 1872, the son of Thomas Jones (b1844 ...

(1872–1955) – English artist and illustrator * William Nicholson (1872–1949) – English painter, illustrator and author of children's books *

Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( ; 21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Woodblock printing in Japan, Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. ...

(1872–1898) – English illustrator and author especially of erotic illustrations *

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was a British artist, a late exponent of Pre-Raphaelitism. She produced paintings in oils and watercolour, book illustrations, and a number of designs for works in stained glass. ...

(1872–1945) – English artist and illustrator *

Louie Burrell Louisa Harriet "Louie" Burrell (née Luker 1873 – 1971) was an English-born artist who also lived in Canada and the United States. Biography The daughter of William and Ada Luker, both artists, Burrell was born in London and studied at the ...

(1873–1971) – English painter *

Francis William Doyle Jones Francis William Doyle Jones, sometimes Francis William Doyle-Jones, (11 November 1873–10 June 1938) was a British sculptor. Although principally a portrait sculptor, Jones is notable for the number of war memorials he created for British towns ...

(1873–1938) – English sculptor *

Isabel Codrington Isabel Codrington Pyke-Nott, later Isabel Konody then Isabel Mayer (1874–1943), was a British artist. She painted figures in watercolour and oils and also produced miniatures. Biography Codrington was born in Bydown, near Barnstaple in Devo ...

(1874–1943) – English painter *

John Duncan Fergusson John Duncan Fergusson (9 March 1874 – 30 January 1961) was a Scottish artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the major artists of the Scottish Colourists school of painting. Early life Fergusson was born in Leith, Edinburgh, the first ...

(1874–1961) – Scottish artist, one of the

Scottish Colourists The Scottish Colourists were a group of four painters, three from Edinburgh, whose Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist work, though not universally recognised initially, came to have a formative influence on contemporary Scottish art and cultur ...

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 Alice Kirkby Goyder, or Alice Kirkeley Goyder, (8 December 1875 – 20 February 1964) was a British artist known for her depictions of animals and landscapes, in both paintings and etchings. Biography Goyder was born in Bradford in West Yorkshi ...

(1875–1964) – English painter and etcher *

Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (18 September 1875 – 28 February 1970) was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, Arnold, Nottinghamshire as Arthur Henry Hammond. Knighton-Hammond was an English people, English artist best known for landscape painting, ...

(1875–1970) – English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits, and industrial paintings *

Henry Bates Joel Henry Bates Joel (1875–1922) was a British landscape painter of the late Victorian era. Joel exhibited from 1880 to 1905 and primarily painted coastal scenes and landscapes. Works and legacy Bates Joel concentrated on romanticised landsca ...

(1875–1922) – English landscape painter * Margaret Fisher Prout (1875–1963) – English painter * Walter Dexter (1876–1958) – English oil and watercolour artist, particularly of

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

Harold Gilman Harold John Wilde Gilman (11 February 187612 February 1919) was a British painter of Interior portrait, interiors, portraits and landscapes, and a founder-member of the Camden Town Group. Early life and studies Harold John Wilde Gilman was th ...

(1876–1919) – English artist and founder-member of the

Camden Town Group The Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists founded in 1911 and active until 1913. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town area of London. History In 1908, critic Frank ...

Gwen John Gwendolen ''Gwen'' Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh people, Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely relat ...

(1876–1939) –

artist * Horace Tuck (1876–1951) –

artist of oil and watercolour landscapes * Florence Mabel Hollams (1877–1963) – painter of dogs and horses *

Laura Knight Dame Laura Knight ( Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressi ...

(1877–1970) – British artist *

Frank Cadogan Cowper Frank Cadogan Cowper (16 October 1877 – 17 November 1958)"Obituary: Frank ...

(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 William Denis Eden (1878–1949) was a Liverpool-born artist whose lively and idiosyncratic paintings were in a ‘neo-Pre-Raphaelite’ style. He trained at the St John's Wood Art School and the Royal Academy Schools, and went on to exhibit regu ...

(1878–1949) – painter and illustrator *

Charles Ginner Charles Isaac Ginner (4 March 1878 – 6 January 1952) was a British painter of landscape and urban subjects. Born in the south of France at Cannes, of British parents, in 1910 he settled in London, where he was an associate of Spencer Gore ...

(1878–1952) – French-born painter, member of

Spencer Gore Spencer may refer to: People *Spencer (surname) **Spencer family, British aristocratic family ** List of people with surname Spencer * Spencer (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places Australia * Spencer, New ...

(1878–1914) – British painter who was the first president of the

Augustus John Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sarg ...

(1878–1961) –

painter, draughtsman, and etcher *

Louis Frederick Roslyn Louis Frederick Roslyn (born Roselieb; 13 July 1878 – 1940), also known as Louis Fritz Roselieb, was a British sculptor noted for his World War I war memorials, portrait sculptures and bronze statuettes. Before beginning his career, he stu ...

(1878–1940) – English sculptor * Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (1878–1959) – English artist, particularly renowned for

equine Equinae is a subfamily of the family Equidae, known from the Hemingfordian stage of the Early Miocene (16 million years ago) onwards. They originated in North America, before dispersing to every continent except Australia and Antarctica. They are ...

subject matter * Ada Hill Walker (1879–1955) – scientific illustrator and artist *

William Reid Dick Sir William Reid Dick, (13 January 1878 – 1 October 1961) was a Scottish sculptor known for his innovative stylisation of form in his monument sculptures and simplicity in his portraits. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1921 an ...

(1879–1961) – Scottish sculptor *

Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). Early life and education Vanessa Stephen was the eld ...

(1879–1961) – English painter and interior designer *

Gertrude Harvey Gertrude Harvey (née Bodinnar, 1879–1966) was a British artist who was an active member of the Newlyn School of artists and a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Biography Gertrude Harvey was the eighth of the ten children born to An ...

(1879–1966) – English landscape painter * Matthew Smith (1879–1959) – English painter *

Malcolm Drummond Malcolm Cyril Drummond (24 May 1880 – 10 April 1945) was an English people, English painter and printmaker, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors. Influenced by the Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionists and Walter Sickert, h ...

(1880–1945) – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors *

Jacob Epstein Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 21 August 1959) was an American and British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1910. Early in his ...

(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 Harry Morley (5 April 1881 – 18 September 1943) was a British painter, etcher and engraver known for his classical and mythological compositions. Early life Morley was born in Leicester where he studied at the Alderman Newton's School and t ...

(1881–1943) – English painter *

Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsma ...

(1882–1940) – British sculptor,

typeface designer Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below. A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production su ...

, stonecutter and

Percy Wyndham Lewis Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited '' Blast'', the literary magazine of the Vorticists. His novels include ''Tarr'' ...

(1882–1957) – English painter and author *

Henry Lamb Henry Taylor Lamb (21 June 1883 – 8 October 1960) was an Australian-born British painter. A follower of Augustus John, Lamb was a founder member of the Camden Town Group in 1911 and of the London Group in 1913. Early life Henry Lamb was bo ...

(1883–1960) – Australian-born British painter *

Victoria Monkhouse Victoria Monkhouse (1883–1970) was a British artist and illustrator, notable for her depictions of women working on the British Home Front during the First World War. Biography Monkhouse attended Cambridge University and, alongside her studie ...

(1883–1970) – English painter * Arthur Watts (1883–1935) – illustrator * Montague Birrell Black (1884–1964) – English illustrator and painter * Elinor Proby Adams (1885–1945) – English painter *

Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major ...

(1885–1978) – Scottish painter and member of the

Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, a ...

Gwen Raverat Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat (née Darwin; 26 August 1885 – 11 February 1957), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her memoir ''Period Piece'' was published in 1952. Biography Gwendolen Ma ...

(1885–1957) – English

wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively l ...

artist who co-founded the

Society of Wood Engravers The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) is a UK-based artists’ exhibiting society formed in 1920, one of its founder-members being Eric Gill. Membership is restricted to artists who use wood engraving, as distinct from the separate discipline of ...

Randolph Schwabe Randolph Schwabe (9 May 1885 – 19 September 1948) was a British draughtsman, painter and etcher. He was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College London from 1930 until 1948. He served as a war artist in both World Wars, created d ...

(1885–1948) – English artist *

Joseph Hermon Cawthra Joseph Hermon Cawthra (1886–1971), was an English monumental sculptor. During his lifetime he was considered among the leading classical sculptors working in Britain and received several commissions for public monuments, war memorials and arch ...

(1886–1971) – English sculptor *

Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (19 July 1886 – 27 September 1911) was an artist and painter from Liverpool who became known for his depictions of atmospheric pastoral scenes and sepia illustrations of figures. Lightfoot showed great talent as a st ...

(1886–1911) – English painter *

Austin Osman Spare Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English artist and occultism, occultist who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter. Influenced by Symbolism (arts), symbolism and Art Nouveau, his art was known for its clear use o ...

(1886–1956) – English artist and

occultist The occult () is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mystic ...

L. S. Lowry Laurence Stephen Lowry ( ; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its ...

(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 Sydney William Carline (14 August 1888 – 14 February 1929) was a British artist and teacher known for his depictions of aerial combat painted during World War One. Biography Early life Sydney Carline was born in London, the son of the a ...

(1888–1929) – English artist * David Dougal Williams (June 1888–28 September 1944) – British artist and art teacher *

Margaret Lindsay Williams Margaret Lindsay Williams, (18 June 1888 – 4 June 1960) was a Welsh artist who was commissioned to paint portraits of the British royal family, European royalty and American presidents. She was best known as a portrait painter and painted por ...

(1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter *

Edith Grace Wheatley Edith Grace Wheatley née Wolfe (26 June 1888 – 28 November 1970) was a British artist who had a long career as a painter of figures, flowers, birds and animals and as a sculptor. Biography Wheatley was born in London and attended the Slade ...

(1888–1970) – English painter *

Robert Gibbings Robert John Gibbings (23 March 1889 – 19 January 1958) was an Irish Artists, Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history.Martin J. Andrews, ''The Lif ...

(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 A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.Imperial War Museum (IWM)header phrase, "war shapes lives" ...

Christopher Nevinson Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (13 August 1889 – 7 October 1946) was an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, who was one of the most famous war artists of World War I. He is often referred to by his initial ...

(1889–1946) – English painter and

vorticist Vorticism was a London-based Modernism, modernist art movement formed in 1914 by the writer and artist Wyndham Lewis. The movement was partially inspired by Cubism and was introduced to the public by means of the publication of the Vorticist mani ...

Ruth Simpson Ruth Simpson may refer to: * Ruth Simpson (activist) (1926–2008), author and founder of the United States' first lesbian community center * Ruth Simpson (artist) (1889–1964), British artist * Ruth DeEtte Simpson (1918–2000), American arche ...

(1889–1964) – English portrait painter *

Edward Wadsworth Edward Alexander Wadsworth (19 October 1889 – 21 June 1949) was an English artist initially associated with the Vorticism movement. In the First World War he was part of a team involved in the transfer of dazzle camouflage designs to ships fo ...

(1889–1949) – English artist *

David Bomberg David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Hen ...

(1890–1957) – English painter and one of the

Whitechapel Boys The Whitechapel Boys were a loosely-knit group of Anglo-Jewish writers and artists of the early 20th century. It is named after Whitechapel Whitechapel () is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets ...

* Charles Cundall (1890–1971) – English painter * Joseph Gray (1890–1963) – English painter *

Nina Hamnett Nina Hamnett (14 February 1890 – 16 December 1956) was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' Sea shanty, shanties, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia. Early life Hamnett was born in the small coastal town of Tenb ...

(1890–1956) –

artist and writer *

Francis Helps Francis William Helps (1890-1972) was a British artist who, besides a long career as an art teacher, served as the official artist to the 1924 British expedition to Everest. Biography Helps was born in Dulwich in London and, between 1903 and 19 ...

(1890–1972) – English artist * Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890–1978) – English artist *

Iain Macnab Iain Macnab of Barachastlain (21 October 1890 – 24 December 1967) was a Scottish wood-engraver and painter. As a prominent teacher he was influential in the development of the British school of wood-engraving. His pictures are noted for c ...

(1890–1967) – Scottish painter * Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) – English painter *

Leon Underwood George Claude Leon Underwood (25 December 1890 – 9 October 1975) was a British artist, although primarily known as a sculptor, printmaker and painter, he was also an influential teacher and promotor of African art. His travels in Mexico a ...

(1890–1975) – British sculptor, painter, and engraver *

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (né Gaudier; 4 October 1891 – 5 June 1915) was a French artist and sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving. Biography Henri Gaudier was born in Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orléans. In 1910, ...

(1891–1915) – French sculptor and

* Mark Gertler (1891–1939) – British portrait and landscape painter *

Stanley Spencer Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE Royal Academy of Arts, RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if ...

(1891–1959) – English painter *

Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (26 October 1891 – 21 November 1966) was a British artist. He was a member of the Royal Academy and well known as a portrait painter in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Todd was born in Helston in Cornwall. His fa ...

(1891–1966) – English portrait painter * Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975) – German-born British sculptor *

Colin Gill Colin Unwin Gill (12 May 1892 – 16 November 1940) was an English artist who painted murals and portraits and is most notable for the work he produced as a war artist during the First World War. Biography Early life Colin Gill was born at ...

(1892–1940) – English painter *

Gilbert Spencer Gilbert Spencer (4 August 1892 – 14 January 1979) was a British painter of landscapes, portraits, figure compositions and mural decorations. He worked in oils and watercolour. He was the younger brother of the painter Stanley 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 ''From Bedroom Window, Bankshead'', date unknown, private collection ''Costa Brava'', 1953, Government Art Collection Rosa Winifred Nicholson (née Roberts; 21 December 1893 – 5 March 1981) was a British painter. She was married to the pa ...

(1893–1981) – English painter *

Orovida Camille Pissarro Orovida Pissarro (8 October 1893 – 8 August 1968), known for most of her life as Orovida, was a British painter and etcher. For most of her career she distanced herself from the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles of her father, Lucie ...

(1893–1968) – English painter and etcher * Leonard Squirrell (1893–1979) – English watercolourist and etcher *

Henry Matthew Talintyre Henry Matthew Talintyre (1893–1962) was a British comic strip artist, best known for drawing the elephant character Uncle Oojah for Flo Lancaster's comic series that later became ''The Wonderful Adventures of Jerry, Don and Snooker''. Biograp ...

(1893–1962) – British artist *

Flora Twort Flora Caroline Twort (24 June 1893 – 1985) was an English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels of the scenes and people of Petersfield, Hampshire. Flora was born at Yeovil, Somerset, the daughter of Albert Samuel Twort and ...

(1893–1985) – English painter who specialised in watercolours and

s *

Henry Carr Henry Carr (November 27, 1941 – May 29, 2015) was an American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.Meredith Frampton George Vernon Meredith Frampton (17 March 1894 – 16 September 1984) was a British painter and etcher, successful as a portraitist in the 1920s–1940s. His artistic career was short and his output limited because his eyesight began to f ...

(1894–1984) – British artist *

Alethea Garstin Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) was a Cornish artist and illustrator who exhibited paintings regularly at London's Royal Academy from an early age. Life and work Garstin was born in Penzance, Cornwall on 1 June 1894, the daughter of painter Nor ...

(1894–1978) – Cornish painter *

Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England. Backg ...

(1894–1982) – English

abstract painter Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non-objective art'', and ''non ...

* Dora Clarke (1895–1989) – English sculptor * David Jones (1895–1974) –

artist and British

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

poet * William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and

Raymond Coxon Raymond James Coxon (18 August 1896 – 31 January 1997) was an English artist. He enrolled at the Leeds School of Art, the Royal College of Art, and became a teacher in the Richmond School of Art. The creative work of his long and successf ...

(1896–1997) – British artist *

Leila Faithfull Leila Elizabeth Josephine Worsley (nee Reynolds 12 April 1896 – 8 January 1994) was a British artist, who throughout her career worked in a variety of media and who is best known for the artworks she produced during the Second World War, depic ...

(1896–1994) – British artist * Harry Barr (1896–1987) – English painter *

John Buckland Wright John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He worked principally as an etcher and engraver, and was self-taught. Biography Buckland Wright was born on 3 December 1897 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He moved ...

(1897–1954) – New Zealand-born illustrator * Harold Williamson (1898–1972) – British painter, designer, etcher and teacher *

Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract art, abstract monumental Bronze sculpture, bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore ...

(1898–1986) – English artist and sculptor *

Rodney Joseph Burn Rodney Joseph Burn (11 July 1899 – 11 August 1984) was a British artist who painted landscapes, portraits and figures and seascapes. During his long career he also worked in America and painted in the Channel Islands and Venice and was elect ...

(1899–1984) – English artist *

Winifred Knights Winifred Margaret Knights (5 June 1899 – 7 February 1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are ''The Marriage at Cana'' produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa a ...

(1899–1947) – English painter

Born 1900–1949

* Joseph Mellor Hanson (1900–1963) * Ursula Edgcumbe (1900–1985) * Barbara Greg (1900–1983) * George Lambourn (1900–1977) *

Roland Penrose Sir Roland Algernon Penrose (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom. During the Second World ...

(1900–1984) * Harold Tamblyn-Watts (1900–1999) *

Gertrude Hermes Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes (18 August 1901 – 9 May 1983) was a British wood-engraver and sculptor. Hermes was a member of the English Wood Engraving Society (1925–31) and exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Academy an ...

(1901–1983) * Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979) * Ancell Stronach (1901–1981) – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art * Christopher Wood (1901–1930) *

Marjorie Frances Bruford Marjorie Frances Bruford known as Midge Bruford (9 April 1902 – 1958) was a British artist associated with the Newlyn School of artists. Although born in Eastbourne, Bruford was an active participant in several of the artist groups based in C ...

(1902–1958) * Jean Clark (1902–1999) * Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951) * Aileen Eagleton (1902–1984) *

Simon Elwes Lt. Col. Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes, (29 June 1902 – 6 August 1975) was a British war artist and society portrait painter whose patrons included presidents, kings, queens, statesmen, sportsmen, prominent social figures and many members ...

(1902–1975) *

Robin Guthrie Robin Andrew Guthrie (born 4 January 1962) is a Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer and audio engineer, best known as the co-founder of the post punk alternative rock band Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has ...

(1902–1971) *

Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leadin ...

(1903–1975) *

Ray Howard-Jones Rosemary "Ray" Howard-Jones (30 May 1903 – 25 June 1996) was a prolific Welsh painter best known for her impressionistic seascapes and paintings of the coastline of Wales, particularly of the areas around Skomer and Marloes. Early life and ...

(1903–1996) * Charles Mahoney (1903–1968) * John Piper (1903–1992) *

Eric Ravilious Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and othe ...

(1903–1942) * Richard Eurich (1903–1992) *

Ceri Richards Ceri Giraldus Richards (6 June 1903 – 9 November 1971) was a Welsh painter, print-maker and maker of reliefs. Biography Richards was born in 1903 in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Ri ...

(1903–1971) * Albert Houthuesen (1903–1979) *

Graham Sutherland Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmakin ...

(1903–1980) *

Mary Adshead Mary Adshead (15 February 1904 - 3 September 1995) was an English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer. Biography Adshead was born in Bloomsbury, London,as the only child of Stanley Davenport Adshead, architect, watercolourist, and Profe ...

(1904–1995) *

Peggy Angus Margaret MacGregor Angus (9 November 1904 – 28 October 1993) was a British painter, designer and teacher. Born in Chile, she spent her career in Britain. Early life Angus was born in Chile on 9 November 1904, in a railway station, the eleve ...

(1904–1993) * Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959) *

Helen Binyon Helen Francesca Mary Binyon (9 December 1904 – 22 November 1979) was a British artist and writer. She was also a watercolour painter, an illustrator and a puppeteer. Biography Binyon was born in Chelsea, London, Chelsea in London, her father ...

(1904–1979) *

Stephen Bone Stephen Bone (13 November 1904 – 15 September 1958) was an English painter, writer, broadcaster and noted war artist. Bone achieved early success in book illustration using woodcuts before he turned to painting and art criticism. Early life ...

(1904–1958) *

Evan Charlton Evan Charlton (1904–1984) was a British artist who painted surrealist landscapes and interiors. Early life and education Charlton, whose mother was Welsh, was born in London. He studied chemistry at University College, London, where he gradua ...

(1904–1984) * Griselda Allan (1905–1987) *

Reg Bunn Reginald Bunn ( 1905–died 1971) was a British comic book artist, best known for his work on ''The Spider'' in ''Lion'', and work in other British comics during the 1960s. As a young man, Bunn produced commissioned portraits and caricatures to ...

(1905–1971) *

Edward Burra Edward John Burra CBE (29 March 1905 – 22 October 1976) was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, Black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s. Biography Early life Burra ...

(1905–1976) * Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981) *

Eliot Hodgkin Eliot Hodgkin (19 June 1905 – 30 May 1987) was an English painter, best known for his highly detailed still lifes executed either in tempera or oil.

(1905–1987) * Morris Kestelman (1905–1998) * Kenneth Martin (1905–1984) *

Robert Medley Charles Robert Owen Medley CBE, RA, (19 December 1905 – 20 October 1994), also known as Robert Medley, was an English artist who painted in both abstract and figurative styles, and who also worked as theatre designer. He held several teachin ...

(1905–1994) * Vernon Ward (1905–1985) *

Rex Whistler Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (24 June 190518 July 1944) was a British artist, who painted murals and society portraits, and designed theatrical costumes. He was killed in action in Normandy in World War II. Whistler was the brother of poet and ...

(1905–1944) * Kathleen Allen (1906–1983) *

Evelyn Dunbar Evelyn Mary Dunbar (18 December 1906 – 12 May 1960) was a British artist, illustrator and teacher. She is notable for recording women's contributions to World War II on the United Kingdom home front, particularly the work of the Women's Land A ...

(1906–1960) * Patrick Hall (1906–1992) *

Joan Hassall Joan Hassall (3 March 1906 – 6 March 1988) was an English wood engraver and book illustrator. Her subject matter ranged from natural history through poetry to illustrations for English literary classics. In 1972 she was elected the first ...

(1906–1988) *

Edgar Hubert Edgar Hubert (1906-1985) was a British abstract painter. Biography Chris Stephens describes Edgar Hubert as having produced 'some of this country's most radical abstract paintings of the 1930s'. Born Norman Edgar Hubert on 1 June 1906 in Bill ...

(1906–1985) *

Kenneth Steel Kenneth Steel (RBA, SGA, 9 July 1906 – 1970) was a British painter and engraver, noted for his works of art in watercolor. As an accomplished draughtsman his work is noted for its intricate detail, which can be best seen in his landscapes view ...

(1906–1970) * Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998) *

Phyllis Ginger Phyllis Ethel Ginger (19 October 1907 – 3 May 2005) was a British artist and illustrator who, although she had a long career in several different media, is now best known for the topographical watercolours she produced during the Second Worl ...

(1907–2005) *

James McIntosh Patrick James McIntosh Patrick, OBE RSA (4 February 1907 – 7 April 1998) was a Scottish painter, celebrated for his finely observed paintings of the Angus landscape and Dundee, Scotland, where he was based for most of his life. Life Born in Dun ...

(1907–1998) – Scottish landscape painter * Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye (1907–2005) * Claude Rogers (1907–1979) *

William Coldstream Sir William Menzies Coldstream, CBE (28 February 1908 – 18 February 1987) was an English realist painter and a long-standing art teacher. Biography Coldstream was born at Belford, Northumberland, in northern England, the second son of co ...

(1908–1987) *

Isobel Heath Isobel Atterbury Heath (29 December 1908 – 1989) was a British artist and poet active in the St Ives area of Cornwall. Biography Heath was born in Kingston Upon Hull. Little is known of her childhood but later in life she indicated that her ...

(1908–1989) * Norman Hepple (1908–1994) *

Victor Pasmore Edwin John Victor Pasmore, Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, CH, CBE (3 December 190823 January 1998) was a British artist. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s. Early life Pasmore was bo ...

(1908–1998) * Stella Schmolle (1908–1975) *

Carel Weight Carel Victor Morlais Weight, (10 September 1908 – 13 August 1997) was an English painter. Biography Weight was born in Paddington in 1908. His father was a bank cashier and his mother, who was of Swedish and German descent, was a chirop ...

(1908–1997) *

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of nat ...

(1909–1992) – born in Ireland * Dorothea Braby (1909–1987) * Thomas Carr (1909–1999) *

Leonard Daniels Leonard Daniels (28 November 1909 – 24 February 1998) was a British artist, teacher and administrator. Biography Daniels was born in London and was educated at Holloway School and studied art at the Regent Street Polytechnic and attended t ...

(1909–1998) * Paul Lucien Dessau (1909–1999) * Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976) *

Gwynneth Holt Rose Gwynneth Cobden Holt (1909–1995), was a British artist known for her ivory sculptures on religious subjects. Her most famous work is a depiction of the ''Annunciation'', created circa 1946. Biography Holt was born in Wednesbury, Staff ...

(1909–1995) – ivory sculptor *

Leslie Hurry Leslie George Hurry (10 February 1909– 20 November 1978) was a British artist and set designer for ballet, theatre and opera. Biography Hurry was born in London, where his father, A. G. Hurry, was a funeral director in St John's Wood. Lesli ...

(1909–1978) * Eric Taylor (1909–1999) *

Geoffrey Tibble Geoffrey Arthur Tibble (27 February 1909 – 12 December 1952) was an English artist. He was prominent in the Objective Abstraction movement. Early life Geoffrey Arthur Tibble was born in Reading, Berkshire, England on 27 February 1909, as th ...

(1909–1952) * Isabel Alexander (1910–1996) *

Pamela Drew Pamela Drew (11 September 1910 – 11 June 1989) was a British artist known for her paintings of marine and aviation subjects. Although Drew was born in the north of England she spent considerable periods of her career in Ireland. Biography Dre ...

(1910–1989) *

Bernard Hailstone Bernard Hailstone (6 October 1910 – 27 December 1987) was an English painter, best known for his Second World War portraits of transport and civil defence workers painted in Britain, his portraits of members of the Armed Forces painted overse ...

(1910–1987) *

Rodrigo Moynihan (Herbert George) Rodrigo MoynihanBurke's Landed Gentry 1970, pg 876 (17 October 1910 – 6 November 1990) was an English painter, credited with being a pioneer of abstract painting in England. Early life Moynihan was born in Santa Cruz de Tene ...

(1910–1990) * Rosemary Allan (1911–2008) *

Phyllis Bray Phyllis Bray (30 August 1911 – 1991) was a British artist and illustrator known for involvement in the East London Group of artists, for the murals she produced and for illustrating children's books. During her career she also exhibited at t ...

(1911–1991) *

John Kingsley Cook John Kingsley Cook (1911-1994) was an English artist, teacher and wood engraver. Biography Cook was born in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire and studied art at the Royal Academy Schools, where he was taught by both Walter Thomas Monnington and Wa ...

(1911–1994) *

Anthony Devas Thomas Anthony Devas (8 January 1911 – 21 December 1958) was a British portrait painter who was associated with members of the Euston Road School. Early life Thomas Anthony Devas, known as Anthony, was born in Bromley in Kent, on 8 January ...

(1911–1958) *

Roger Hilton Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World War Britain. Often associated with the 'middle generation' of St Ives painters – Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon & Bryan Wynter – he spent mu ...

(1911–1975) * Nicolette Macnamara (1911–1987) * Gwen Barnard (1912–1988) *

Andrew Freeth Hubert Andrew Freeth (29 December 1912 – 26 March 1986) was a British portrait painter and etcher. Biography Freeth was born in Birmingham and attended the Birmingham College of Art and, between 1936 and 1939, studied at the British School i ...

(1912–1986) * Erlund Hudson (1912–2011) * Georgina Hunt (1912–2012) *

Keith Vaughan John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977), was a British painter. His work is held in the collections of the Government Art Collection, National Galleries Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum in t ...

(1912–1977) *

Reg Butler Reginald Cotterell Butler (28 April 1913 – 23 October 1981) was an English sculptor. He was born at Bridgefoot House, Buntingford, Hertfordshire to Frederick William Butler (1880–1937) and Edith (1880–1969), daughter of blacks ...

(1913–1981) * Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986) * Joan Hutt (1913–1985) * Leonard Rosoman (1913–2012) *

Lynn Chadwick Lynn Russell Chadwick, (24 November 1914 – 25 April 2003) was an English sculptor and artist. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate in London and th ...

(1914–2003) * Harold Hitchcock (1914–2009) *

Frances Macdonald Frances MacDonald MacNair (24 August 1873 – 12 December 1921) was a Scottish artist whose design work was a prominent feature of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) during the 1890s. Biography Frances MacDonald MacNair was th ...

(1914–2002) *

Charles Mozley Charles Alfred Mozley (29 May 1914 – 11 January 1991) was a British artist who was also a teacher. He was a prolific book illustrator and designer of book covers, posters and prints. Biography Mozley was born in Darnall, Sheffield, and, ...

(1914–1991) *

Frank Roper Frank Roper may refer to: *Frank Roper (artist) Frank Roper (12 December 1914 – 3 December 2000) was a British sculptor and stained-glass artist who undertook commissions for churches and cathedrals across Wales and England. In addition to ...

(1914–2000) – sculptor * Doris Blair (born 1915) *

Mary Fedden Mary Fedden, (14 August 1915 – 22 June 2012) was a British artist. Early years Sometimes mistakenly described as the daughter of Roy Fedden (who was in fact her uncle, as was Romilly Fedden), Mary Fedden was born in Bristol where she a ...

(1915–2012) * Dennis Flanders (1915–1994) * Wendy F. Walsh (1915–2014) – illustrator and botanical artist *

Norman Whitehead Norman Whitehead (1915–1983) was a landscape painter, working chiefly around his hometown Alfreton, Derbyshire. Active mainly in the 1930s he was greatly influenced by the works of Paul Nash (artist), Paul Nash and the Vorticism movement, exper ...

(1915–1983) *

Eileen Aldridge Eileen W Aldridge (20 July 1916 – 1990) was a British artist and art restorer, who also wrote and illustrated books for children. Biography Aldridge was born in Teddington near London. Her father was a company director and sometime explorer. ...

(1916–1990) * John Bridgeman (1916–2004) *

Margaret Thomas Margaret Thomas (born Margaret Cook; 23 December 1842Clarkson, S. (2007) ''Oil Paintings by Margaret Thomas.'' North Hertfordshire Museums Service – 24 December 1929) was an English-born Australian travel writer, poet and artist. Thomas was ...

(1916–2016) – painter * James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989) * John Kashdan (1917–2001) * Anthony Robert Klitz (1917–2000) * John Minton (1917–1957) *

Mona Moore Mona Mary Moore (20 March 1917 – 20 September 2000), also known as Mona Bentin and later as Deborah Bentin, was a British painter and illustrator, best known for her work during World War Two for both the Recording Britain project and for th ...

(1917–2000) * Estella Campavias (1918–1990) * John Kyffin Williams (1918–2006) *

Peter Lanyon George Peter Lanyon (8 February 1918 – 31 August 1964) was a British painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the ag ...

(1918–1964) * Richard Vicary (1918–2006) – printmaker * Eden Box (1918–1988) * Mary Audsley (1919–2008) * Norman Cornish (1919–2014) *

Colin Hayes Colin Sidney Hayes (16 February 1924 – 21 May 1999) was an Australian champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, South Australia. During his career he trained 5,333 winners including 524 individual Group or Listed winn ...

(1919–2003) *

Cliff Holden Cliff Holden FCSD (12 December 1919 – 20 April 2020) was a British painter, designer, and silk-screen printer. Holden was born in Manchester, England in December 1919 and educated at Wilmslow Modern School, followed by Reaseheath School of Ag ...

(1919–2020) * Peter Wright (1919–2003) * Michael Ford (1920–2005) *

Patrick Heron Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced ...

(1920–1999) *

Robert Tavener Robert Tavener (6 July 1920 – 12 July 2004) was an English printmaker, illustrator, and teacher. Tavener was born in Hampstead, North London, England. After school, he take an office job and then in 1940 he was called up and joined the Roya ...

(1920–2004) * Françoise Taylor (1920–2007) – born in Belgium, British by marriage * Derek Chittock (1922–1986) *

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. His early career as a painter was inf ...

(1922–2011) * Richard Hamilton (1922–2011) *

Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, ; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Early years Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was born on 7 M ...

(1922–2005) *

Miles Richmond Miles Peter Richmond (19 December 1922 – 7 October 2008) was a British artist. Biography Born Peter Richmond, in Isleworth, Middlesex, he added the name Miles in the 1980s, and became generally known as such. From 1940 to 1943 he attended K ...

(1922–2008) *

Pamela Ascherson Pamela Ascherson, later Pamela Rachet (3 March 1923 – 22 June 2010) was a British sculptor, painter and illustrator. Biography Ascherson was born in London and attended Roedean School in Brighton. In 1939 she took painting lessons from Laura ...

(1923–2010) * William McLaren (1923–1987) *

Anthony Caro Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ' found' and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with ...

(1924–2013) * Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001) * Erich von Götha de la Rosière (born 1924) *

Keith Sutton Keith George Sutton (29 May 1924 – 26 July 1991) was a British artist and critic. Life and work Keith Sutton was born in Dulwich on 29 May 1924, the younger son of George William Sutton and Audrey Pearl Dewar. He was educated at Rutlish S ...

(1924–1991) *

Beryl Cook Beryl Cook, OBE (10 September 192628 May 2008) was a British painter best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying ...

(1926–2008) *

Ian Hamilton Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Life Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to James Hamilton Finlay and his wife, Annie Pettigrew, both of Scots descent. He was educa ...

(1925–2006) * Michael Edmonds (1926–2014) *

Leon Kossoff Leon Kossoff (10 December 1926 – 4 July 2019) was a British figurative painter known for portraits, life drawings and cityscapes of London, England. Early years and education Kossoff was born in Islington, London, and spent most of his early ...

(1926–2019) *

Edna Mann Edna Mann (1926 – 1985) was a British painter and co-founder of the Borough Group of artists. Early life and education Edna Mann was born in London in 1926. She was educated at Romford County High School for Girls and then studied art at th ...

(1926–1985) * Tom McGuinness (1926–2006) *

Eric Rimmington Eric Oliver Rimmington (19 July 1926 – 3 November 2024) was an English painter of still lifes, landscapes and murals. He served in the military in the Second World War, studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and taught art at various establ ...

(1926–2024) *

Patrick Swift Patrick Swift (1927–1983) was an Irish painter who worked in Dublin, London and the Algarve, Portugal. Overview In Dublin he formed part of the Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art, Envoy arts review / McDaid's pub circle of artistic and l ...

(1927–1983) – born in Ireland *

Peter Bain Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

(1927–2001) * Greta Tomlinson (1927–2021) * Michael Andrews (1928–1995) *

John Copnall John Bainbridge Copnall (1928–2007) was an English artist best known for his abstract expressionist painting of richly coloured stylised realism, often on a grand scale. He was also a teacher of painting for twenty years at the Central School ...

(1928–2007) * Dora Holzhandler (1928–2015) – born in Paris to Polish parents but lived in London * Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995) *

Dorothy Mead Dorothy Mead (1928 – 12 June 1975) was a British painter, lecturer and member of the London Group of artists. Early life and education Mead was born in London, England, and adopted at three months old by a family in Walthamstow. Her mother had ...

(1928–1975) * John Riley (1928–2010) * John Scanes (1928–2004) *

Joe Tilson Joseph Charles Tilson (24 August 1928 – 9 November 2023) was a British visual artist and fellow of the Royal Academy. He was involved in the Pop Art movement in the 1960s; he made paintings, prints and constructions. Early life and educa ...

(born 1928) *

Victor Willing Victor Arthur James Willing (15 January 1928 – 1 June 1988) was a British painter, noted for his original nude studies. He was a friend and colleague of many notable artists, including Elisabeth Frink, Michael Andrews and Francis Bacon. He ...

(1928–1988) * Barbara Balmer (1929–2017) *

Zelda Nolte Zelda Nolte (1929–2003) was a South African-British sculptor and woodblock printmaker. Education Zelda Nolte studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich under the directorship of Johannes Itten, which became Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ...

(1929–2003) * Fred Cuming (1930–2022) *

Mardi Barrie Mardi Barrie (1930–2004) was a Scottish artist and teacher. Biography Barrie was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife. She attended the University of Edinburgh before studying art at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1948. After graduating in 1953, she ...

(1930–2004) *

Robyn Denny Edward Maurice FitzGerald "Robyn" Denny (3 October 1930 – 20 May 2014) was one of a group of young artists who transformed British art in the late 1950s, leading it into the international mainstream. Reacting against the mainstream St Ives S ...

(1930–2014) *

David Gentleman David William Gentleman (born 11 March 1930) is an English artist. He studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from ...

(born 1930) *

Donald Pass Donald Pass (9 September 1930 – 3 December 2010) was a British painter whose art has been compared to that of William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecog ...

(1930–2010) *

Frank Auerbach Frank Helmut Auerbach (29 April 1931 – 11 November 2024) was a German-born British painter. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he became a naturalised British subject in 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of Lo ...

(born 1931) *

Dennis Creffield Dennis Creffield (29 January 1931 – 26 June 2018) was a British artist with work owned by major British and worldwide art collections, including the Tate Gallery, The British Museum, Arts Council of England, the Government Art Collection, The ...

(1931–2018) * Ken Messer (1931–2018) *

Malcolm Morley Malcolm A. Morley (June 7, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was a British-American visual artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in various styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other genres. In 1984, he ...

(1931–2018) – first winner of the

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in 1984 *

Bridget Riley Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. Early life and education Riley was born on 24 April 1931 in West Norwood, No ...

(born 1931) * Valerie Thornton (1931–1991) * Audrey Barker (1932–2002) * Peter Blake (born 1932) *

Nina Carroll Nina Carroll (1932–1990, aka Nina Steane) was a British painter. Carroll studied art at the Cheltenham School of Art and then studied English Literature at Oxford University, where she joined the Ruskin School of Art. Carroll held exhibition ...

(1932–1990) *

Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Early life Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, Londo ...

(1932–2017) * Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) – royal painter *

Ken Howard Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. (March 28, 1944 – March 23, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in ''1776'' (1972) and as high school basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the televisi ...

(1932–2022) *

R. B. Kitaj Ronald Brooks Kitaj (; October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist who spent much of his life in England. Life He was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States. His Hungarian father, Sigmund Benway, left his mother, Jeanne ...

(1932–2007) – born in the United States *

Euan Uglow Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932 – 31 August 2000) was a British painter. He is best known for his nude and still life paintings, such as ''German Girl'' and ''Skull''. Born in London, he studied at the Camberwell School of Art. His i ...

(1932–2000) *

Marc Vaux Marc Vaux (born 29 November 1932, Swindon) is a British artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s. His work was included in the seminal Situation exhibition of 1960 alongside Robyn Denny, William Turnbull and Bernard Cohen among others. This ...

(born 1932) *

Ian Weatherhead Ian Weatherhead (born 1932) is an English watercolour artist. Weatherhead was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He attended schools in Yorkshire and Scotland, including Fettes College. In Edinburgh, he was a pupil of William Wilson ARSA (1905–1972), ...

(born 1932) *

Richard Allen Richard, Rick, or Dick Allen may refer to: Artists *Dick Allen (poet) (1939–2017), American poet, literary critic and academic *Richard Allen (abstract artist) (1933–1999), British painter *James Moffat (author) (1922–1993), Canadian-Britis ...

(1933–1999) * John Furnival (1933–2020) – artist of

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poetry *

Charles Lutyens Charles Lutyens (1933–2021) was an English artist and art therapist. Lutyens was born in London, England. His father was Ernest Lutyens, an officer in the Coldstream Guards, and his mother was Naomi Lutyens, who was a publicity officer at th ...

(1933–2021) – painter, sculptor, and mosaicist *

Norman Perryman Norman Perryman was born in Birmingham, England in 1933, was educated at the Worcester Royal Grammar School, and studied painting and art education at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts, graduating with Honours in 1954. He emigrated to th ...

(born 1933) * Vincent Haddelsey (1934–2010) *

John Hoyland John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters. Early life John Hoyland was born on 12 October 1934, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, to a working-class fami ...

(1934–2011) * Colin Jones (born 1934) – systems artist * Jeremy Moon (1934–1973) *

Garth Evans Garth Evans (born 1934) is a British sculptor and former college lecturer at St Martin's School of Art, London. Background Evans' mother was from Pencoed, her father and brothers were South Wales coalminers. He was born in Cheshire in 1934 an ...

(born 1934) – sculptor *

Rose Wylie Rose Wylie (born 14 October 1934) is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.Salle, David (12 May 2022). "Going on Her Nerve". ''The New York Review of Books'' 69 (8): 32–34. Life and work Sh ...

(born 1934) – painter *

Paula Rego Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego (: 26 January 1935 – 8 June 2022) was a Portuguese visual artist, widely considered the pre-eminent woman artist of the late 20th and early 21st century, known particularly for her paintings and prints based o ...

(1935–2022) – born in Portugal *

Frank Bowling Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling ''('' Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling; born 26 February 1934), known as Frank Bowling, is a British artist who was born in British Guiana. He is particularly renowned for his larg ...

(born 1936) * Tony Foster (born 1936) – painter *

Patrick Caulfield Patrick Joseph Caulfield, (29 January 1936 – 29 September 2005), was an English painter and printmaker known for his bold canvases, which often incorporated elements of photorealism within a pared-down scene. Examples of his work are ''Po ...

(1936–2005) * David Hall (1937–2014) *

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English Painting, painter, Drawing, draughtsman, Printmaking, printmaker, Scenic design, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considere ...

(born 1937) * Allen Jones (born 1937) * Tom Phillips (1937–2022) * Pamela Scott Wilkie (born 1937) *

Margot Perryman Margot Perryman (born 1938) is a British educator and abstract artist. Her works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the UK Government. She taught at institutions including Goldsmith College and Ravensbourne College in London, a ...

(born 1938) * Carole Steyn (born 1938) * William Tillyer (born 1938) *

Terry Atkinson Terry Atkinson (born 1939) is an English artist. Career Atkinson was born in Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1967, he beg ...

(born 1939) *

Rose Frain Rose Frain is a visual artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland,Mansfield, Susan (2009)Art reviews: Nashashibi/Skaer , Rose Frain , Andrew Ranville, ''The Scotsman'', 1 September 2009, retrieved 2010-01-25 exhibiting nationally and internationally, ...

(born 1939) * Anthony Green (1939–2023) * 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 Peter Hammond Liddle (born 1934) is a British historian and author specialising in the study of the First and Second World Wars. In the 1960s he developed the Liddle Collection, a large collection of interviews and memorabilia mainly relating to ...

(born 1940) *

Barry Flanagan Barry Flanagan OBE Royal Academy, RA (11 January 1941 – 31 August 2009) was an Irish-Welsh people, Welsh sculptor. He is best known for his bronze statues of hares and other animals. Biography Barry Flanagan was born on 11 January 1941 i ...

(1941–2009) * Yvonne Hutton (1941–1991) * Geoffrey Key (born 1941) * Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002) * Peter Olley (born 1942) * Ruth Rix (born 1942) *

Alan Aldridge Alan Aldridge (8 July 1938 – 17 February 2017) was a British artist, graphic designer and illustrator. He is best known for his psychedelic artwork made for books and record covers by The Beatles and The Who and for creating the original desig ...

(1938–2017) *

Grange Calveley Grange Calveley (6 May 1943 – 22 August 2021) was a British artist and writer. He was best known as the creator of the BBC's animated television series ''Roobarb'' (1974) and ''Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk'' (1977). Calveley also wrote and ma ...

(1943–2021) *

Errol Lloyd Errol Lloyd (born 1943)"Errol Lloyd. Born 1943 in Jamaica"

(born 1943) * Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015) *
Graham Ovenden Graham Stuart Ovenden (11 February 1943 – 9 December 2022) was an English painter, fine art photographer and writer. Some of Ovenden's art has been investigated as possible child pornography by American and British authorities, and in 2009 ...
(1943–2022) * Valerie Wiffen (born 1943) * Zacron (1943–2012) – multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster *
Lindsay Bartholomew Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944) is a British artist who is notable for her watercolour paintings of the British landscape. Bartholomew was born on the Wirral in Cheshire and between 1961 and 1964 studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxfo ...
(born 1944) *
Sue Gollifer Sue Gollifer (born December 1944) is a British artist and academic. She uses silkscreen printing as well as digital techniques to produce her artworks. She is based in Brighton, southern England. Gollifer received her master's degree in printma ...
(born 1944) – printmaker and digital artist *
Bruce McLean Bruce McLean (born 1944) is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist and painter. McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1963 to 1966. At Saint Martin ...
(born 1944) * David Paskett (born 1944) *
Ali Omar Ermes Ali Omar Ermes (, born 1945) was a Libyan artist and author. His paintings make use of Arabic calligraphy, often superimposed on a rich-textured ground, and may incorporate fragments of Arabic or other poetry or prose. He had lived in the Unit ...
(born 1945) *
Maggi Hambling Margaret J. Hambling (born 23 October 1945) is a British artist. Though principally a painter, her best-known public works are the sculptures '' A Conversation with Oscar Wilde'' and '' A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft'' in London, and the ...
(born 1945) * Ed Herring (1945–2003) * Pete Hoida (born 1944) * Geoffrey Humphries (born 1945) * David Imms (born 1945) * Richard Long (born 1945) *
Val Archer Val Archer (born 1946) is a British oil painter and teacher who is known for her meticulously composed still life paintings. Biography Archer was born in Northampton where her father was an engineer and her mother was a bookbinder. Archer attende ...
(born 1946) *
Lewis Blake Lewis Blake (born June 1946) is a British poet and artist. He is a member of the Cambridge School of poetry, and, to a certain extent, the British Poetry Revival. Life Blake was born in Reydon, near Southwold in Suffolk in June 1946. He was educ ...
(born 1946) * Terance James Bond (1946–2023) *
Paul Dash Paul Dash (born 1946) is a Barbados-born artist, educator and writer who in 1957 migrated to Britain,Paul O'Kane"Dash, Paul" in Alison Donnell, ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2002, p. 93. where he was associated w ...
(born 1946) * Rose Garrard (born 1946) *
Winston Branch Winston Branch Order of the British Empire, OBE (born in 1947) is a British artist originally from Saint Lucia, the Sovereign state, sovereign island in the Caribbean Sea. He still has a home there, while maintaining a studio in California. Work ...
(born 1947) *
Paul Brown Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was an American American football, football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), the National Football League (NFL), and the American Football League (AFL). ...
(born 1947) – digital artist *
Shelagh Cluett Shelagh Cluett (17 December 1947 – 25 July 2007) was an artist and fine art lecturer working in London, England, from the late 1960s until 2007. Cluett became a recognised figure on the London art scene in the early 1980s with exhibitions o ...
(1947–2007) – sculptor * Richard Cook (born 1947) *
Tam Joseph Tam Joseph (born 1947) is a Dominica-born British painter, formerly known as Tom Joseph. Described as "a uniquely talented, multidimensional artist" by art historian Eddie Chambers, "Tam Joseph has contributed a number of memorable paintings th ...
(born 1947) *
Vikki Slowe Vikki Slowe (1947–2013) was an English printmaker and painter. Slowe produced etchings. She illustrated the book ''Purple & Green: Poems by Thirty-Three Women Poets''. Slowe's works are held in the collections of the Ben Uri Gallery & Muse ...
(born 1947) – printmaker and painter *
Linda Sutton Linda Sutton (born 1947) is a British painter and president of the Small Paintings Group. Biography Sutton was born in 1947 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. She attended Southend College of Technology then studied at Winchester School of Art. Sutton ...
(born 1947) *
Godfrey Blow Godfrey Blow (born 6 October 1948) is a British-born contemporary artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. A painter whose work is inspired by myths and mythical landscapes, he founded the Perth Stuckists in 2003. Life and art Godfre ...
(born 1948) * Pete Gilbert (born 1948) – graphic designer and painter * Richard P. Cook (born 1949) * Richard Deacon (born 1949) – 1987 Turner Prize Winner * Paul Wager (born 1949) – painter and sculptor

Born 1950–1999
*
Sam Ainsley Sam Ainsley (born Samantha Ainsley, 1950) is a British artist and teacher, living and working in Glasgow, who was the founder and former head of the Master of Fine Art (MFA) programme at the Glasgow School of Art. Education Ainsley was born in ...
(born 1950) *
Alison Dunhill Alison Dunhill (born 1950) is an English artist and art historian, and also a published poet. Biography Born in London, Dunhill trained in Fine Art at the University of Reading under Sir Terry Frost and Rita Donagh. In the early 1970s she had ...
(born 1950) *
Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pl ...
(born 1950) *
Edward Allington Edward Thomas Allington (24 June 1951 – 21 September 2017) was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement. Born at Troutbeck Bridge, Westmorland, to Ralph Allington and his wife, Evely ...
(1951–2017) *
Humphrey Ocean Humphrey Ocean (born 22 June 1951) is a contemporary British painter. Early life Humphrey Ocean was born Humphrey Anthony Erdeswick Butler-Bowdon, on 22 June 1951 in Sussex. He went to Ampleforth College and in 1967 went to Tunbridge Wells Sc ...
(born 1951) *
Richard Spare Richard John Spare (born 1951) is a British artist and master printmaker known primarily for his drypoints, etchings and oil paintings. He is based in London. Biography Education and early career Spare attended Maidstone College of Art ...
(born 1951) * Jeremy Henderson (1952–2009) – artist and painter * Colin Nichols (born 1952) * Tim Woolcock (born 1952) – modern British painter in the 1950s tradition *
Stephen Pusey Stephen Pusey (born 1952) is a New York-based artist of Irish People, Irish and British People, British descent known for Abstract art and earlier work as a painter of figurative community murals in London, UK. Early life and education Stephen ...
(born 1952) * Alan Rankle (born 1952) – landscape painter * Jane Boyd (born 1953) *
Pogus Caesar Pogus Caesar (born 1953)"Pogus Caesar"
''Diaspora Artists''. is a British ...
(born 1953) – born in
St Kitts Saint Kitts, officially Saint Christopher, is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis constitute one ...
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Chris Gollon Chris Gollon (1953–2017) was a British artist. Born in London, England, Chris Gollon was a technically innovative painter, bringing both Old Master techniques and printmaking methods into the medium of acrylic. Until his death in 2017, he had ...
(1953–2017) *
Monica Petzal Monica Petzal (born 22 June 1953) is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker. Petzal was born in London, the daughter of German Jewish refugees. Petzal's recent work concerns her family's displacement from Germany under th ...
(born 1953) – painter and printmaker * Ingrid Pollard (born 1953) *
Melinda Camber Porter Melinda Camber Porter (18 September 1953 – 9 October 2008)Melinda Camber Porter, 1953 ...
(1953–2008) – painter, writer, filmmaker, and journalist *
Charles Thomson Charles Thomson (November 29, 1729 – August 16, 1824) was an Irish-born Founding Father of the United States and secretary of the Continental Congress (1774–1789) throughout its existence. As secretary, Thomson prepared the Journals of the ...
(born 1953) * Martin Yeoman (born 1953) *
Michael Clark (artist) Michael Clark (born 1 April 1954) is a contemporary British artist. His work spans a broad range of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography, installation, video, performance and artist's books. Clark was born in Manchester ...
(born 1954) *
Lubaina Himid Lubaina Himid (born 1954) is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire.Aidan Hughes Aidan Hughes is a commercial artist. He was born in 1956 in Wallasey, Wallasey, Merseyside, England, and was trained as an artist by his father, himself a landscape painter. In the 1980s, Hughes published a Pulp magazine, pulp-style magazine cal ...
(born 1954) *
Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the United Ki ...
(born 1954) * Vivien Blackett (born 1955) *
David Tress David Tress is a British painter noted particularly for his deeply personal interpretations of landscapes in and around his home in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales. He combines the techniques of collage and impasto with conventional painting and d ...
(born 1955) *
Denzil Forrester Denzil Forrester (born 1956) is a Grenada-born artist who moved to England as a child in 1967.Niru Ratnam"Denzil Forrester" in Alison Donnell (ed.), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2002, p. 117. Previously based i ...
(born 1956) * Errol Francis (born 1956) *
Malcolm McGookin Malcolm "Malc" McGookin (born 1956 in Kilwinning, Scotland) is a British cartoonist also known for his work as an animator and illustrator. He immigrated to Australia in 1995 and presently lives in Brisbane, Australia. Cartooning career Malc M ...
(born 1956) * Terry Smith (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 Willard Wigan, (born June 1957) is a British sculptor from Ashmore Park Estate, Wednesfield, England, the son of Jamaican immigrants, who makes micro miniature sculptures. His sculptures are typically placed in the eye of a needle or on the head ...
(born 1957) * Simon Beck (artist) (born 1958) – snow artist *
Sokari Douglas Camp Sokari Douglas Camp CBE (born 1958 in Nigeria) is a London-based artist who has had exhibitions all over the world and was the recipient of a bursary from the Henry Moore Foundation. She was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British ...
(born 1958) *
Keith Coventry Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator.Burgess, John, Coventry, Keith, Hale, Matt, Noble, Paul, Owen, Peter. "City Racing: The Life and Times of an Artist-Run Gallery ardcover. Black Dog Publishing Ltd; illustrated edition (11 Novem ...
(born 1958) *
Lennie Lee Lennie Lee (born 4 March 1958) is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London. Life and career Lee is a South African artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college i ...
(born 1958) – born in South Africa *
Jake Tilson Jake Tilson (born 1958 in London) is an English artist, graphic designer, writer and publisher. Author and designer of ''A Tale of 12 Kitchens'' (2006), he published the arts magazines ''Cipher'' (1979–1981) and ''Atlas'' (1985–1993), taught ...
(born 1958) * Andy Dog Johnson (1959–2016) *
Claudette Johnson Claudette Elaine Johnson (born 1959) is a British visual artist. She is known for her large-scale drawings of Black women and her involvement with the BLK Art Group, of which she was a founder member. She was described by Modern Art Oxford as ...
(born 1959) *
Hew Locke Hew Donald Joseph Locke (born 13 October 1959) is a British sculpture, sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London. In 2000, he won a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, Paul Hamlyn Award and the EASTinternational Awar ...
(born 1959) – born in
Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
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Bruce Munro Bruce Beaton St Clair Munro (born 2 June 1959) is a dual nationality English/Australian artist known for producing large immersive site-specific installations, often by massing components in the thousands. Frequently, Munro's subject matter is h ...
(born 1959) *
Keith Salmon Keith Charles Salmon (born 1959) is a British fine artist. His work is principally semi-abstract Scottish landscapes which are created based upon his experience as a hill walker. Even though he is registered blind Salmon has climbed more than on ...
(born 1959) – Scottish landscape painter born in England * Suzzan Blac (born 1960) * Eddie Chambers (writer and artist), Eddie Chambers (born 1960) * John Foulger (1960–2006) * Isaac Julien (born 1960) * Grayson Perry (born 1960) * Nick Fudge (born 1960) * Keith Piper (artist), 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 (artist), 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 (artist), 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) * 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) * Rupert Shrive (born 1965) * Fiona Banner (born 1966) * Fiona Crisp (born 1966) – photographer * Ian Davenport (artist), Ian Davenport (born 1966) * Christian Furr (born 1966) * Igor Kufayev (born 1966) * Maria Marshall (born 1966) * Elizabeth Price (artist), Elizabeth Price (born 1966) – 2012 Turner Prize winner * Peter Brown (British artist), Peter Brown (born 1967) * Serena de la Hey (born 1967) – sculptor * Andy Lomas (born 1967) * Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967) * Paul Rooney (artist), 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 (artist), 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) * Banksy (reportedly born 1974) * Michael Takeo Magruder (born 1974) – new media and digital artist * 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 (artist), Claire Hooper (born 1978) * David Spriggs (artist), David Spriggs (born 1978) – sculptor, installation artist * Angela Wakefield (born 1978) * Hannah Rickards (born 1979) * Fuller (artist), Fuller (born 1980) * Nick Gentry (born 1980) * Conor Harrington (born 1980) * Edward Kluz (born 1980) * Polly Morgan (taxidermist), Polly Morgan (born 1980) * Stuart Semple (born 1980) * Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983) * Anna King (artist), Anna King (born 1984) * Anthony Smith (sculptor), Anthony Smith (born 1984) – bronze sculptor * Sarah Maple (born 1985) – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner * Emma Cousin (born 1986) * Johan Andersson (artist), Johan Andersson (born 1986) * Nicola Frimpong (born 1987) * Seb Toussaint (born 1988) – street artist and painter * Nathan Wyburn (born 1989) – food artist * The Connor Brothers (born 1980s) * Sophie Green (born 1992) * Bianca Raffaella (born 1992) * Vanessa Lubach (fl 1990) – printmaker

Born 2000 and later
* Kieron Williamson (born 2002) – English painter

See also
* List of artists from the Isle of Man, List of Manx artists * List of artists from Northern Ireland * List of Scottish artists * List of Welsh artists

References
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