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The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order).


English painters


Born 16th century

* George Gower (c. 1540–1596) *
Nicolas Hilliard Nicholas Hilliard () 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 larger cabinet miniatures, ...
(1547–1619) *Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627) * Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (1593–1661) *Sir
Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh c ...
(1599–1641) born in
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; Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King * William Larkin (1580–1619)


Born 17th century

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Emmanuel de Critz Emmanuel de Critz (25 September 1608 – 2 November 1665) was an English painter. He was called the "best portraitist in London" by Robert Walker. He was born and baptized in London on 25 September 1608, as the younger son of John, a painter ...
(1608–1665) * William Dobson (1610–1646) * John Michael Wright (1617–1694) *
Peter Lely Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 7 December 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. Life Lely was born Pieter van der Faes to Dutch ...
(1618–1680) Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661) *
Oliver de Critz Oliver de Critz (1626 – 1651) was an English painter. He was born in London in 1626, the son of John de Critz, a painter of Flemish descent who was the Serjeant Painter of Britain, and his third wife. His relatives Thomas de Critz, Thomas and ...
(1626–1651) * Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713) *
Edward Bower Edward Bower ( fl. 1635 – 1667)Portraits by Edward Bower
( Henry Cooke (1642–1700) *Sir
Godfrey Kneller Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723), was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to Kingdom of England, English and Br ...
(1646–1723) * John Riley, or Ryley (1646–1691) *
Marmaduke Cradock Marmaduke Cradock (1660 – 24 March 1716) was an English painter of birds and animals. Some older sourcesIncluding Bryan and Walpole give his first name as Luke. Life Cradock was an English painter, noted for his depictions of birds, dead gam ...
(1660–1716) *Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734) *
Edward Byng Edward Byng (''ca.'' 1676 – 1753), sometimes spelt Bing, was an English portrait artist. Thought to be a native of Wiltshire, Byng trained as an artist and became an assistant to Godfrey Kneller about 1693. Another pupil of Kneller, Robert B ...
(c. 1676–1753) * Peter Monamy (1681–1749) * John Wootton (1682–1764) *
Isaac Whood Isaac Whood (1689–1752) was an English portrait-painter, who was known for being a great imitator of the painting styles of Godfrey Kneller. Life Whood practised for many years as a portrait-painter in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. His por ...
(1689–1752) * Joseph Highmore (1692–1780) * John Vanderbank (1694–1739) * William Hogarth (1697–1764)


British painters


Born 18th century

* Thomas Hudson (1701–1779) * Mary Hoare (1744–1820) * William Hoare (c. 1707–1792) * Francis Hayman (1708–1776) * Sir William Beechey (1753–1839) *
John Shackleton John Shackleton (? - 14 or 16 March 1767, London) was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown. Output Shackleton painted several surviving portraits, for example of He ...
(1714–1767) Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III * Richard Wilson (1714–1782) * William Keable (1714–1774) *
Charles Brooking Charles Brooking (c.1723–59) 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) * Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King * George Stubbs (1724–1806) * Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) * Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) *
Johann Zoffany Johan 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, includin ...
(1733–1810) born in Frankfurt * Peter Perez Burdett (c. 1734–1793) * George Romney (1734–1802) *
Joseph Wright of Derby Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wr ...
(1734–1797) * Jeremiah Meyer (1735–1789) born in Tübingen * Richard Wright (1735–c.1775) * Amos Green (1735–1807) *
Mary Benwell Mary Benwell (1739–after 1800), married name Codd, was an English artist, a miniaturist and pastellist. Life Benell's teachers may have included John Russell or Catherine Read. Benwell resided in Warwick Court, London, and exhibited crayon ...
(1739–after 1800) * John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) * Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) born in Zurich,
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Matthew William Peters Matthew William Peters (1742 – 20 March 1814) was an English portrait and genre painter who later became an Anglican clergyman and chaplain to George IV. He became known as "William" when he started signing his works as "W. Peters".Simon, ...
(1742–1814) * Mary Moser (1744–1819) * William Hodges (1744–1797) * Henry Walton (1746–1813) * William Tate (1747–1806) *
Richard Morton Paye Richard Morton Paye (1750–1820) was an important painter of the early English School and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. During his lifetime Paye was considered one of the most gifted painters in England but various personal ...
(1751–1820) * Joseph Barney (1753–1832) * Charles Lewis (1753–1795) still life painter * Maria Bell (1755–1825) * Prince Hoare the Younger (1755–1834) painter and dramatist * Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755–1802) of Jersey * Thomas Stothard (1755–1834) * Henry Bone (1755–1834) * William Blake (1757–1827) *
George William Sartorius George William Sartorius (1759–1828) was a British artist. The Sartorius family were painters of sporting activities. Sartorius specialised in animals and still lifes. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists The Society of Artist ...
(1759–1828) * Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) *
Sir Thomas Lawrence Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an 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 an innkeeper at t ...
(1760–1830) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King * George Morland (1763–1804) * Samuel Drummond (1766–1844) * John Crome (1768–1821) * Thomas Barker (1769–1847) *
James Ward James Ward may refer to: Military *James Ward (Medal of Honor, 1864) (1833–?), American Civil War sailor * James Ward (Medal of Honor, 1890) (1854–1901), American Indian Wars soldier *James Allen Ward (1919–1941), New Zealand pilot and Vi ...
(1769–1859) * William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831) * Edward Bird (1772–1819) * Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774–1837) * Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) * Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) *
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) *
John Jackson John or Johnny Jackson may refer to: Entertainment Art * John Baptist Jackson (1701–1780), British artist * John Jackson (painter) (1778–1831), British painter * John Jackson (engraver) (1801–1848), English wood engraver * John Richardson ...
(1778–1831) *
John Varley John Varley may refer to: * John Varley (canal engineer) (1740–1809), English canal engineer * John Varley (painter) (1778–1842), English painter and astrologer * John Varley (author) (born 1947), American science fiction author * John Silvest ...
(1778–1842) *
William John Huggins William John Huggins (1781 – 19 May 1845) was a British marine painter who won royal patronage for his work. Life Little is known of Huggins' early life. He made one voyage between December 1812 and August 1814 as an ordinary seaman on ...
(1781–1845), marine painter * Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1854) * John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) * David Cox (1783–1859) * Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King *
Caroline Maria Applebee Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1786 – 16 September 1854) was an English artist, mostly in watercolour. Born in London,1851 United Kingdom census53, Crouch Street, Colchesterat ancestry.co.uk, accessed 15 May 2020 but baptized at St Margaret's C ...
(c. 1785–1854) * Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) * William Mulready (1786–1863) * William Etty (1787–1849) *
John Martin John Martin may refer to: Business *John Martin (businessman) (1820–1905), American lumberman and flour miller *John Charles Martin (fl. 1913–1931), American newspaper publisher *John Martin (publisher) (born 1930), American founder of Black ...
(1789–1854) *
William Linton William Linton may refer to: *William C. Linton, founder and editor of the ''Chicago Whip'' newspaper *William S. Linton (1856–1927), U.S. politician from Michigan *William James Linton (1812–1897), Anglo-American author, artist and political r ...
(1791–1876) * Sir George Hayter (1792–1871) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen * Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872) * Francis Danby (1793–1861) * Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) * Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860) * Henry Collen (1797–1879) * Paul Delaroche (1797–1856) * Joseph Stannard (1797–1830) * Frederick Richard Lee (1798–1879) * Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861) * Samuel Atkins, marine painter


Born 19th century


Born 1800–1824

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John Hayter John Hayter (21 October 1800 – 3 June 1895) was an English portrait painter who was Painter-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, whom he first painted when she was 12 years old. Biography He was the second son of the miniaturist Charles Hayter an ...
(1800–1895) * Thomas Webster (1800–1886) *
James Digman Wingfield James Digman Wingfield (1800–1872) was a British painter, known mainly for historical subjects, as well as for landscapes, portraits, and interiors. Wingfield was a member of the Royal Academy, where he displayed a number of portraits in 183 ...
(1800-1872) *
Sir 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. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the bas ...
(1802–1873) *
Thomas Sidney Cooper Thomas Sidney Cooper (26 September 18037 February 1902) was an English landscape painter noted for his images of cattle and farm animals. Biography Thomas Sidney Cooper was born in St Peter's Street in Canterbury, Kent, and as a small child ...
(1803–1902) *
John Scarlett Davis John Scarlett Davis (1 September 1804 – 29 September 1845), or Davies, was an English landscape, portrait and architectural painter, and lithographer.Tony Hobbs, ''John Scarlett Davis: A Biography'', Almeley, Herefordshire, Logaston Pres ...
(1804–1845) *
Edwin Wilkins Field Edwin Wilkins Field (12 October 1804 – 30 July 1871) was a British lawyer and painter who committed much of his life to law reform. Early life Edwin, a descendant of Oliver Cromwell through his grandmother, was the eldest of thirteen children ...
(1804–1871) *
William Knight Keeling William Knight Keeling (1807–1886) was a British (Victorian) artist, an illustrator of Walter Scott's novels and Shakespeare's plays, a founder member and the third President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. Background and Career ...
(1807–1886) * George Armfield (Smith) (1808–1893) * Thomas Baker (1809–1864) *
William Edward Frost William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude. Frost w ...
(1810–1877) * James Peel (1811-1906) * Henry Dawson (1811–1878) *
Ebenezer Colls Ebenezer Colls (Horstead, Norfolk, 1812 – Hampstead, 1887) was an English marine painter. He was inspired to paint after his pet English Cocker Spaniel, Cooper, swam out into the English Channel and was picked up by a merchant vessel. Ebene ...
(1812–1887) * Richard Barnett Spencer (1812–1897) * Thomas Musgrave Joy (1812–1866) * Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) * Harry Hall (c. 1814–1882) *
John Absolon John Absolon (1815 – May 5, 1895) was a British watercolourist, specialising in figure painting. He studied in London and then Paris. Life Absolon was born in Lambeth in May 1815. He was described in a profile in ''The Art Journal'' as "on ...
(1815–1895) *
James Francis Danby James Francis Danby was an English landscape art, landscape painter who excelled in depicting sunrise and sunset. Biography Danby was born at Bristol in 1816, the son of Francis Danby, Royal Academy, A.R.A. His works appeared at the Royal Acade ...
(1816–1875) * Augustus Egg (1816–1863) * Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879) *
Henry Mark Anthony Henry Mark Anthony (4 August 1817 – 1 December 1886) was an English landscape artist, often favourably compared to John Constable by critics. He exhibited at many major art institutions and travelled widely, being credited with introducin ...
(1817–1886) * Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) * Richard Dadd (1817–1886) * Thomas Danby (1817–1886) *
John Callcott Horsley John Callcott Horsley RA (29 January 1817 – 18 October 1903) was an English academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook. Chi ...
(1817–1903) * John Phillip (1817–1867) * George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) *
Margaret Backhouse Margaret Backhouse may refer to: * Margaret Backhouse (artist) (1818–1888), British portrait and genre painter * Margaret Backhouse (Quaker) (1887–1977), British humanitarian activist {{hndis, Backhouse, Margaret ...
(1818–1888) * Louisa Beresford (1818–1891) * John Anster Fitzgerald (c. 1819–1906) * William Powell Frith (1819–1909) * James Sant (1820–1916) * Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) * Charles Elder (1821–1851) *
Sir Joseph Noel Paton Sir Joseph Noel Paton (13 December 1821 – 26 December 1901) was a Scottish artist, illustrator and sculptor. He was also a poet and had an interest in, and knowledge of, Scottish folklore and Celtic legends. Early life He was born in Woo ...
(1821–1901) *
James Smetham James Smetham (9 September 1821 – 5 February 1889) was an English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter and engraver, a follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Biography Smetham was born in Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, and attended school in Leeds ...
(1821–1889) *
Thomas Holroyd Thomas Holroyd (1821 – 10 March 1904) was an English portrait and landscape painter working in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Before his marriage he undertook painting tours to the United States, Canada, Europe, Egypt, Russia ...
(1821–1904) * Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893) * Frederick Goodall (1822–1904) *
George Hardy George Hardy may refer to: * George Hardy (actor) (born 1954), American dentist and star of cult film ''Troll 2'' * George Hardy (labor leader) (1911–1990), Canadian-American labor leader * George Hardy (artist) (1822–1909), British genre pain ...
(1822–1909) * William Simpson (1823–1899) *
William Shakespeare Burton William Shakespeare Burton (1 June 1824 – 26 January 1916) was an English genre and historical painter of the Victorian era. He is now remembered mainly for ''The Wounded Cavalier'' (1855). Life Burton's grandfather was a printer, and h ...
(1824–1916) * Martha Darley Mutrie (1824–1885) *
Frances Emilia Crofton Frances Emilia Crofton née Dunn (1822 – 23 October 1910), known professionally as Mrs William Crofton, was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish landscape painter of the picturesque style who flourished in the mid-19th century. In 1854 she publ ...
(1822–1910)


Born 1825–1849

* Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) *
Annie Feray Mutrie Annie Feray Mutrie (6 March 1826 – 28 September 1893) was a British still-life painter. She exhibited regularly and she and her sister Martha were considered the best flower painters in oils. Life Mutrie was born in Ardwick in 1826. She was th ...
(1826–1893) *
David Cooke Gibson David Cooke Gibson (4 March 1827 – 5 October 1856) was a Scottish painter and poet. Early life Gibson was born in Edinburgh in 1827, the son of a portrait-painter who died early of tuberculosis, leaving a widow, David, and a daughter. After fo ...
(1827–1856) * Frederick Daniel Hardy (1827–1911) * William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) * John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882) * George Bernard O'Neill (1828–1917) * Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) *
Anna Blunden Anna Blunden, later Anna Blunden Martino, (22 December 1829 – 1915) was an English Pre-Raphaelite artist. She was a member of John Ruskin's circle and was one of a number of women artists working and exhibiting during the Victorian age. Her ...
(1829–1915) *
John Bagnold Burgess John Bagnold Burgess (London 21 October 1829 – 2 November 1897 London) was an English artist known for his paintings of historical and genre scenes, principally in Spain.Dictionary of National Biography, 1901, pp. 333–5. Life and work ...
(1829–1897) * John Finnie (1829–1907) * Edwin Long (1829–1890) * John Everett Millais (1829–1896) * John Samuel Raven (1829–1877) *
Lord Frederick Leighton Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subjec ...
(1830–1896) *
Helen Mabel Trevor Helen Mabel Trevor (20 December 1831 – 3 April 1900) was an Irish landscape and genre painter. Life Helen Mabel Trevor was born in Lisnagead House, Loughbrickland, County Down, on 20 December 1831. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Hill T ...
(1831–1900) * Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) * Louise Rayner (1832–1924) *
Henrietta Ward Henrietta Mary Ada Ward ( Ward; 1 June 1832 – 12 July 1924) was a British historical and genre painter of the Victorian era and the early twentieth century. Life and work Ward belonged to a family that produced professional artists over ...
(1832–1924) * George Henry Boughton (1833–1905) * Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) * Benjamin Williams Leader (1833–1921) *
Frederic Shields Frederic James Shields (14 March 1833 – 26 February 1911) was a British artist, illustrator, and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown. Early years Frederic James Shields ...
(1833–1911) * William Morris (1834–1896) * Emily Mary Osborn (1834–1913) * Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) born in Dronrijp, Netherlands * John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) * Walter Field (1837–1901) * Charles Stuart (1838–1907) * Walter Goodman (1838–1912) *
Charles Edward Perugini Charles Edward Perugini (1 September 1839 – 22 December 1918), originally Carlo Perugini, was an Italian-born English painter of the Romantic and Victorian era. Biography Perugini was born in Naples, but lived with his family in England ...
(1839–1918) * Kate Perugini (1839–1929) *
John Clayton Adams John Clayton Adams or J. Clayton Adams (26 January 1840 – 20 June 1906) was an English landscape artist. Life Adams was born the second son of Mr. C.H. Adams in Edmonton, Middlesex (now in Greater London), and studied art at the Bloomsbu ...
(1840–1906) * Philip Augustus Barnard (1840–1884) * Albert Joseph Moore (1841–1893) *
Edith Martineau Edith Martineau (19 June 1842 – 19 February 1909) was a British watercolour painter. Biography Martineau was born in Liverpool as the daughter of Dr. James Martineau, an eminent Unitarian minister. She was trained first at the Liverpool S ...
(1842–1909) * Edwin Ellis (1842–1895) *
Sydney Prior Hall Sydney Prior Hall MVO, MA (18 October 1842 – 15 December 1922) was a British portrait painter and illustrator and one of the leading ''reportage'' artists of the later Victorian period. The son of animal portraitist Harry Hall, Sydney Ha ...
(1842–1922) * Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – marine painter *
Clara Montalba Clara Federica Montalba (2 August 1840 – 14 August 1929) was a British artist, chiefly known for her watercolour paintings of Venice. She was the eldest of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba, all of whom achiev ...
(1842–1929) *
Herbert William Weekes Herbert William Weekes (8 May 1841 – 21 November 1914) was a well-known English genre and animal painter of the Victorian Neoclassical period who specialized in portraying animals in humorous, human-like situations. Early life and family We ...
(c. 1842–unknown) *
Louise Jopling Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, previously Romer and later Rowe) (Manchester 16 November 1843 – 19 November 1933) was an English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation. Early life Lou ...
(1843–1933) *
Bernard Walter Evans Bernard Walter Evans (26 December 1843 – 26 February 1922) was a British landscape painter and watercolourist in the Romantic style, working mainly in Birmingham, Wales, London, Cannes and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Because he used a "h ...
(1843–1922) * Isabel Dacre (1844–1933) *
Tristram Ellis Tristram James Ellis (2 July 1844 – 25 July 1922) was an English artist who was known for his paintings of the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Early life Ellis was the son of the mathematician and philologist Alexander John Ellis. He ...
(1844–1922) * Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904) *
Frances C. Fairman Frances Caroline Fairman (1839 – February 1923) was a British watercolourist, a painter in oils, and an illustrator. In her lifetime she was best known for her canine portraits, some of which were commissioned by royalty and aristocracy. Sh ...
(1839–1923) * Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927) *
Annie Swynnerton Annie Louisa Swynnerton, ARA ( Robinson; 26 February 1844 – 24 October 1933) was a British painter best known for her portrait and symbolist works. She studied at Manchester School of Art and at the Académie Julian, before basing herself in ...
(1844–1933) * Edith Gittins (1845–1910) *
Louisa Starr Louisa Starr, later Louisa Canziani (1845–25 May 1909), was a British painter. Biography Starr was born in London and lived on Russell Square when she became a copyist at the British Museum.Edith Corbet Edith Corbet née Edenborough (28 December 1846 – 1920) was a Victorian landscape painter, having close associations with the Macchiaioli group (also known as the Tuscans or Etruscans), who, in a break with tradition, painted outdoors in ord ...
(1846–1920) * Walter Greaves (1846–1930) *
Kate Greenaway Catherine Greenaway (17 March 18466 November 1901) was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from the Finsbury School of ...
(1846–1901) *
William Biscombe Gardner William Biscombe Gardner (1847 – 23 February 1919, Tunbridge Wells) was a British painter and wood-engraver. Working in both watercolour and oils, he exhibited widely in London in the late 19th century at venues such as the Royal Academy and ...
(1847–1919) * Ellis Rowan (1847–1922) * Helen Allingham (1848–1926) * Helen Thornycroft (1848–1937) *
John William Waterhouse John William Waterhouse (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 artworks were known for their dep ...
(1849–1917) *
John Reinhard Weguelin John Reinhard Weguelin (23 June 1849 – 28 April 1927) was an English painter and illustrator, active from 1877 to after 1910. He specialized in figurative paintings with lush backgrounds, typically landscapes or garden scenes. Weguelin em ...
(1849–1927) *
William Thornley William Anslow Thornbery aka William Thornley (fl. 1858 – 1898) was an English marine painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium ...
(fl. 1858–1898)


Born 1850–1874

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Walter Daniel Batley Walter Daniel Batley (1850 – 29 September 1936) was a Suffolk artist based in Ipswich. After receiving his art education, he painted some portraits but landscapes soon became his preferred subject. He exhibited at several venues in England ...
(1850–1936) *
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) *
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) *
Laura Alma-Tadema Laura Theresa, Lady Alma-Tadema ( Epps; 16 April 1852 15 August 1909) was an English painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children. Eighteen of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy. Her husband, Sir Lawr ...
(1852–1909) *
George Clausen Sir George Clausen (18 April 1852 – 22 November 1944) was a British artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, dry point and occasionally lithographs. He was knighted in 1927. Biography George Clausen was born at 8 William S ...
(1852–1944) *
Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. Alfred Richard Gurrey Sr. (1852–1944) was an English-born landscape painter who moved to the United States at age 20. In 1900, his employer, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, transferred him from San Francisco to Hawaii. In Hawaii, he worke ...
(1852–1944) * Charles Napier Kennedy (1852–1898) *
Walter Langley Walter Langley (8 June 1852 – 21 March 1922) was an English painting, painter and founder of the Newlyn School of ''plein air'' artists. Biography He was born in Birmingham and his father was a journeyman tailor.1861 Census, RG9; Piece: 2 ...
(1852–1922) *
Frank Bernard 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 portra ...
(1853–1928) * Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922) *
Alfred Robert Quinton Alfred Robert Quinton (28 October 1853 – 10 December 1934) was an English watercolour artist, known for his paintings of British villages and landscapes many of which were published as postcards. Quinton was born in Peckham in London in ...
(1853–1934) * Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854–1929) *
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 proper ...
(1854–1945) *
Frank Markham Skipworth Frank Markham Skipworth (1854 in Castor, Lincolnshire – 1929 in London) was an English portrait painter. He painted also genre and historical subjects. He studied for two years at the Lincoln School of Art, then under Edward Poynter at the R ...
(1854–1929) * George Paice (1854–1925) *
Edward Wilkins Waite Edward Wilkins Waite RBA (14 April 1854 – 1924) was a prolific English landscape painter. Waite was born in Leatherhead, Surrey, the son of the Rev. Edward Waite, MA, and his wife Cleopha Julia (née Dukes) – there were six sons and t ...
(1854–1924) * Sara Page (1855–1943) *
Marianne Stokes Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Stokes was considered one of the le ...
(1855–1927) * Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) * Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919) * Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893) *
Jane Mary Dealy Jane Mary Dealy (1856 – 1939), known as Lady Lewis from 1904, was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books. ...
, Lady Lewis (1856–1939) * Alice Hirschberg (1856–1913) *
Joseph Vickers de Ville Joseph Vickers de Ville (1856–1925) was an English painter of landscapes and rural subjects. Life and work Joseph Vickers de Ville was a son of the farmers Joseph and Mary Deville. He was born in Eaton, Derbyshire, but is considered a Wolv ...
(1856–1925) * William Wells Quatremain (1857–1930) * William Stott-of-Oldham (1857–1900) * Arthur Melville (1858–1904) * Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929) * George Henry (painter) (1858–1943) *
Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes Elizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong; 29 December 1859 – 16 March 1912) was a Canadian painter who was primarily active in the UK. She often featured children in her paintings and ''School Is Out'' (painted in Newlyn) is one of her mos ...
(1859–1912) *
Henrietta Rae Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (30 December 1859 – 26 January 1928) was a British painter of the late Victorian era,Arthur Fish''Henrietta Rae (Mrs. Ernest Normand)'' London, Cassell & Co., 1905. who specialised in classical, allegorical and lite ...
(1859–1928) *
Charles W. Bartlett Charles William Bartlett (1 June 186016 April 1940) was an English painter and printmaker who settled in Hawaii. Biography Bartlett studied metallurgy and worked in that field for several years. At age 23, he enrolled in the Royal Aca ...
(1860–1940) * Lewis Charles Powles (1860–1942) *
Christabel Cockerell Christabel Annie Cockerell, Lady Frampton (baptized 21 October 1864 – 18 March 1951) was a British painter of children, portraits and landscapes. Marriage She married sculptor Sir George Frampton, becoming Lady Frampton, but continued to exh ...
(1863–1951) * Margaret Bernadine Hall (1863–1910) * George Phoenix (1863–1935) *
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 ...
(1864–1949) *
Arthur Lowe Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor. His acting career spanned 36 years, including starring roles in numerous theatre and television productions. He played Captain Mainwaring in the British sitcom ''Dad' ...
(1865–1940) *
John Guille Millais John Guille Millais ( , also ; 24 March 1865 – 24 March 1931) was a British artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian p ...
(1865–1931) * Louise Pickard (1865–1928) *
Charles Spencelayh Charles Spencelayh (October 27, 1865 – June 25, 1958) was an English genre works, genre painter and portraitist in the Academic art, Academic style. Spencelayh was born in Rochester, Kent, Rochester in Kent, and first studied at the Royal Coll ...
(1865–1958) * Milly Childers (1866–1922) * Mary Davis, Lady Davis (1866–1941) *
Helen Thomas Dranga Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1927), who is also known as Carrie Helen Dranga, was a British/American painter who made paintings of Hawaii. Personal life Born Caroline Helen Thomas in Oxford, England on December 28, 1866. The daughter of Mary A ...
(1866–1940) * Roger Fry (1866–1934) * Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) *
Anna Alma-Tadema Anna Alma-Tadema ( Tadema; 16 May 1867 – 5 July 1943) was a British artist and suffragette. Alma-Tadema primarily worked with drawings and paintings, creating many portraits and representations of interior scenes, flowers and buildings. ...
(1867–1943) born in Brussels * Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) born in Bruges *
Percy Robertson Percy Robertson RE (1868–1934) was an English watercolour landscape painter and etcher. Robertson was born in Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy. His father, also a painter and engraver, was Charles Robertson and his mother was Alice Mary, the daughter ...
(1868–1934) * Ursula Wood (1868–1925) *
Mary Baylis Barnard Marjorie Baylis Barnard, known as Mary Baylis Barnard, (1870–1946) was a versatile British painter, notably of flowers but also of landscapes, interiors and genre scenes. Biography Barnard was born in Wiltshire and studied art in Paris. She liv ...
(1870–1946) * Mary McEvoy (1870–1941) *
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in th ...
(1872–1898) *
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was an English artist known for her paintings, book illustrations, and a number of works in stained glass. Life Fortescue-Brickdale was born at her parents' house, Birchamp Vil ...
(1872–1945) * William Heath Robinson (1872–1944) * Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1932) * Alexander Scott (1872–1932) * William Nicholson (1872–1949) *
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) * Amy Drucker (1873–1951) *
Edmund Hodgson Smart Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942) was a nineteenth and twentieth-century British painter most noted for his portraits of world leaders. He was born in Alnwick, England. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Antwerp Acad ...
(1873–1942) * Isabel Codrington (1874–1943)


Born 1875–1899

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Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (18 September 1875 – 28 February 1970) was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire as Arthur Henry Hammond. Knighton-Hammond was an English artist best known for landscapes, society portraits and industrial paintings. Kn ...
(1875–1970) *
Madge Oliver Madge Oliver (18 September 1875 – 11 September 1924) was a British artist who painted interiors and landscapes and lived and worked in France for many years. Biography Oliver was born in Knaresborough in Yorkshire and studied at the Slade Sc ...
(1875–1924) * Sophie Atkinson (1876–1972) *
Winifred Austen Winifred Maria Louise Austen (12 July 1876 – 1 November 1964) was an English illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver, particularly known for her detailed depictions of small mammals and birds. Early years and education Born in Ra ...
(1876–1964) * Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers (1876–1939) * Gwen John (1876–1939) * Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958) * Laura Knight (1877–1970) * Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967) *
Walter Ernest Webster Walter Ernest Webster (17 November 187730 April 1959) was a British figure painting, figure and portrait painting, portrait painter. He also worked as an illustrator. Biography Webster was born on 17 November 1877 His parents were Robert Wal ...
(1877–1959) *
Hilda Annetta Walker Hilda Annetta Walker FRSA (1877 – 3 June 1960) was an English sculptor, and a painter of landscapes, seascapes and horses, flourishing between 1902 and 1958. She was a war artist painting in England during the First and Second World Wars, a ...
(1877–1960) *
Eliza Mary Burgess Eliza Mary Burgess (2 March 1878 – 1961) was a British artist, known as a painter and designer. Biography Burgess was born and grew up in the Walthamstow area of London, where her father was a florist and gardener and her mother was a dressma ...
(1878–1961) * May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878–1943) * Augustus John (1878–1961) * Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) *
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 ...
(1879–1966) *
John Hodgson Lobley John Hodgson Lobley was an English artist. He was born 28 November 1878 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and died in 1954. He is best known for his work as an official war artist for the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. Biography Lobley ...
(1879–1954) * Anna Airy (1882–1964) *
Gladys Kathleen Bell Gladys Kathleen Madge Bell née Farrar (1882–1965) was a British artist and miniature painter. Biography Bell studied at the Cope and Nichols' School of Art at Kensington in London. From 1910 Bell exhibited at the Royal Academy some 28 times, ...
(1882–1965) *
Teresa Copnall Teresa Norah Copnall (née Burchart; 24 August 1882 – 1972), was a British painter known for her flower studies and portrait painting. Biography Copnall was born in Haughton-le-Skerne near Darlington in the north of England, where her father ...
(1882–1972) * Helen Edwards (1882–1963) *
Richard Howard Penton Richard Howard Penton (known professionally as Howard Penton) (1882–1960) was an English marine and landscape painter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Richard ...
(1882–1960) *
Eleanor Hughes Eleanor Mary Hughes ( Waymouth), (3 April 1882 – 1959) was a New Zealand landscape artist who mostly painted in watercolours. She settled and worked in Britain and became an active member of the Newlyn School of artists and the nearby L ...
(1882–1952) *
Averil Burleigh Averil Mary Burleigh born Averil Mary Dell (1883 – 1949) was a British artist and painter. Based in Sussex, Burleigh was known for painting in egg tempera with the subject usually involving a central figure. Her husband and daughter also painte ...
(1883–1949) *
John Currie (artist) John Currie ( – 11 October 1914) was an English painter and murderer. Born in Staffordshire, the illegitimate son of an Ulster-Scottish father who was a 'navvy' working on the railways and an English mother, he worked as an artist in the ...
(1884–1914) * Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957) *
Louisa Puller Louisa Puller (1884-1963) was a British artist who contributed works to both the Recording Britain scheme and to the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War. Biography Puller travelled widely throughout England during World ...
(1884–1963) * Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976) * Duncan Grant (1885–1978) *
Esther Blaikie MacKinnon Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934) was a Scottish artist who was known for her paintings and engravings. MacKinnon worked with a variety of media including paint, dry point, etchings, and black and white drawings. Notable were her portraits ...
(1885–1934) *
Evelyn Abelson Evelyn Abelson, née Levy, (1886 - 7 March 1967) was a British painter. Biography Abelson was born in London and was educated at Campden Hill School and at Queen's College, London. She studied art at Heatherley School of Fine Art. From the 192 ...
(1886–1967) *
Mary Jewels Mary Jewels (5 February 1886–1977) was a British painter, born in Newlyn in Cornwall. Jewels never had any formal training and painted in a naïve style, mainly landscapes, portraits, fishing and harbour scenes in oil. She was a friend of ...
(1886–1977) *
James Ardern Grant James Ardern Grant (1885–1973), was an English printmaker, painter and teacher, who worked mostly in portraiture. Biography Grant was born in Liverpool and studied at the Liverpool School of Art and the Académie Julian in Paris before r ...
(1887–1973) *
Laurence Stephen Lowry Laurence Stephen Lowry ( ; 1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist. His drawings and paintings mainly depict Pendlebury, Lancashire (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as Salford and its vicinit ...
(1887–1976) *
Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller The painter, illustrator and curator Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller was born in Glasgow (1887–1979). After teaching at Glasgow School of Art, between 1910 and 1930, he went on to be keeper and then Deputy Director of the National Galleries of S ...
(1887–1979) *
Elizabeth Polunin Elizabeth Violet Polunin (née Hart; 21 May 1887- 1950) was a British artist and theatre designer, most notably for her work with Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. Life and work Polunin was born in Ashford, Kent and when she was a ...
(1887–1950) *
Stanley Royle Stanley Royle RBA, (1888–1961) was an English post-impressionist landscape painter and illustrator who lived for most of his life in and around Sheffield (England), and in Canada, and was inspired by views of landscape, sea and snow. Early ...
(1888–1961) *
Paul Cranfield Smyth Paul Cranfield Smyth (1888-1963) was the founder of the Finchley Art Society and a prolific artist. From age seven onwards, he painted over 4000 pictures during his life. His subjects include some paintings done during the First World War in Gi ...
(1888–1963) *
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 po ...
(1888–1960) *
Nora Cundell Nora Lucy Mowbray Cundell (20 May 1889 – 3 August 1948) was an English painter of figure subjects, flowers and landscapes in oil and watercolours. Biography Cundell was born in London and was the granddaughter of the artist Henry Cundell. Sh ...
(1889–1948) * Paul Nash (1889–1946) * Cedric Morris (1889–1982) * Marlow Moss (1889-1958) *Sir Henry Rushbury (1889–1968) *
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 Ruth DeEtte Simpson (May 6, 19 ...
(1889–1964) * David Bomberg (1890-1957) *
Olive Mudie-Cooke Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890-11 September 1925) was a British artist who is best known for the paintings she created during the First World War. Mudie-Cooke served as an ambulance driver in both France and Italy during the conflict and these experie ...
(1890–1925) * Leon Underwood (1890–1975) * Grace English (1891–1956) *
Stanley Spencer Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE 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 in Cookham, the small ...
(1891–1959) * Dora Carrington (1893–1932) *
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) * Cowan Dobson (1894–1980) *
Kaff Gerrard Kaff Gerrard ''née'' Katherine Leigh-Pemberton (1894-1970) was a British artist. Although she was a prolific painter and potter, Gerrard rarely exhibited during her lifetime and only gained significant recognition after her death. A 1991 exhibi ...
(1894–1970) * Meredith Frampton (1894–1984) * Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) * Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973) * Harry Bateman (1896–1976) * George Bissill (1896–1973) *
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, depicti ...
(1896–1994) * Billie Waters (1896–1979) * Dorothy Coke (1897–1979) *
Hans Feibusch Hans Nathan FeibuschFeibusch, Hans Nathan< ...
(1898–1998) – born in Frankfurt, resided in England 1934–1998 *
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) *
Rose Henriques Rose Louise Henriques, Lady Henriques CBE (née Loewe; 17 August 1889 – 1972), was a British artist and social and charity worker in the East End of London, where she was born and lived throughout her life. She was posthumously recognised as ...
(1889–1972) * Francis Helps (1890–1972)


Unknown year, born 19th century

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Edward Pritchett Edward Pritchett (1807-1876) was a nineteenth-century English painter and man of mystery. Little is known of Pritchett's life; he has appropriately been described as "elusive."''Art Index'', New York, H. W. Wilson Co., 1974; Vol. 21, p. 758. P ...
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fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1828–1864) *
Florence Claxton Florence Ann Claxton (26 August 1838 – 3 May 1920), later Farrington, was a British artist and humorist, most notable for her satire on the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Claxton also wrote and illustrated many humorous commentaries on contemporar ...
(fl. 1840–1879) * Sara Macgregor (d. 1919)


Born 20th century


Born 1900–1949

* George Lambourn (1900–1977) *
Elsie Dalton Hewland Elsie Dalton Hewland (23 November 1901 – 1979) was a British artist, who painted figure and genre subjects and is now known for her images of British life during World War II. Biography Hewland was born and grew up in the north of England. ...
(1901–1979) * John Mansbridge (1901–1981) *
Marjorie May Bacon Marjorie May Bacon, later Marjorie Macbeth-Raeburn (6 January 1902 – 9 February 1988) was a British printmaker and painter. Biography Bacon was born in Ipswich and lived in Great Yarmouth as a child. Bacon attended Yarmouth Art School f ...
(1902–1988) *
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) *
Frank Barrington Craig Frank Barrington Craig (2 March 1902 – 4 February 1951), also known as Barry Craig, was a British painter of portraits and landscapes and also an art teacher. Biography Craig was born in Hampstead in north London into a family of artists. ...
(1902–1951) *
John Melville John William Melville (25 August 1902 – 8 December 1986) was a self-taught British Surrealist painter. He is described by Michel Remy in his book ''Surrealism in Britain'' as one of the "harbingers of surrealism" in Great Britain. He was, a ...
(1902–1986) * Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998) * John Piper (1903–1992) * Eric Ravilious (1903–1942) * Ceri Richards (1903–1971) * Graham Sutherland (1903–1980) * Mary Adshead (1904–1995) *
Celia Frances Bedford Celia Frances Bedford (11 February 1904 – 23 February 1959) was a British artist, notable for her portrait and figure paintings plus her work as a lithographer. Biography Bedford was born in Kensington in west London into an artistic family, ...
(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) *
George Fisher Gilmour George Fisher Gilmour (1904-1984) was a British artist, playwright, and filmmaker. As a genre painter, he worked primarily in oil and watercolor. Biography George Fisher Gilmour was born on April 12, 1904, in Kingston upon Thames to George Str ...
(1904–1984) * J. Edward Smith (1905–1986)Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1947 catalogue, pp. 28, 29; Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1948 catalogue p. 28; The Royal Society of Marine Artists 1975 (1 painting), 1976 (2 paintings), and 1977 (2 paintings); ''20th Century British Marine Painting'', by Denys Brook-Hart, 1981, ISBN 0 902028 90 1, Plate 167, p. 258, "Honfleur". *
Griselda Allan Griselda Norma Allan (22 November 1905 – 23 August 1987) was an English artist, known for her flower paintings. Biography Allan was born in Sunderland in the north-east of England, into one of the city's then prosperous shipbuilding families. ...
(1905–1987) * Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987) * Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997) *
Emmy Bridgwater Emma Frith Bridgwater (10 November 1906 – 13 March 1999),. known as Emmy Bridgwater, was an English artist and poet associated with the Surrealist movement. Based at times in both Birmingham and London, she was a significant member of the Bir ...
(1906–1999) * Patrick Hall (1906–1992) *
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) *
Clifford Ellis Clifford Wilson Ellis (1907–1985) was a British printmaker, painter, designer and art teacher. Ellis is notable both for the work he did for the Recording Britain project during the Second World War and for his role in the development of art t ...
(1907–1985) *
Frank Egginton Frank Egginton (10 November 1908 – 7 April 1990) was a British contemporary landscape painter. He was born in Cheshire, England and educated at Newton Abbot College of Art, Devon, where his father, Wycliffe Egginton, was headmaster. Eggi ...
(1908–1990) *
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) * Thomas Carr (1909–1999) * Mildred Eldridge (1909–1991) *
Geoffrey Tibble Geoffrey Arthur Tibble (27 February 1909''1939 England and Wales Register'' – 15 December 1952) was an English artist prominent in the Objective Abstraction movement. Early life and studies Tibble was born in 1909 in Reading, Berkshire, an ...
(1909–1952) * Francis Bacon (1909–1992) *
Peter Rose Pulham Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956) was a British photographer and surrealist painter. Examples of his works are in the collections of the Tate and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Pulham was born in 1910 in Norfolk. In the 1930s, he starte ...
(1910–1956) *
Isabel Alexander Isabel Alexander (1910-1996) was a British artist and illustrator whose work encompassed drawing, water colour, oils, lithography, lino-printing and three-dimensional work, and whose output ranged from socially-engaged documentation of the lives ...
(1910–1996) *
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 Janua ...
(1911–1958) *
Gwen Barnard Gwen Barnard (1912–1988) was a British artist notable for her ability as a painter and printmaker. Biography Barnard studied at the Chelsea School of Art between 1931 and 1935 and then at the Euston Road School in 1937 and 1938. Although her ...
(1912–1988) *
Fay Pomerance Fay Pomerance née Levy (12 July 1912 – 2001) was a British artist known for her paintings in pastel, tempera and in watercolours which were often on religious and spiritual subjects. Biography Pomerance was born in Birmingham, West Midlands ...
(1912–2001) *
Raymond Teague Cowern Raymond Teague Cowern (12 July 1913 – 1986) was a British painter and illustrator who was an accomplished draughtsman and was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1968. Biography Cowern was born and educated in Birmingham. He atten ...
(1913–1986) *
Leonard Appelbee Leonard Appelbee, (13 November 1914 – 12 June 2000), was an English painter and printmaker, most notable for his portraits and still-life paintings. Life and work Appelbee was born in Fulham, the son of a coppersmith. He attended Goldsmiths ...
(1914–2000) * John Bridgeman (1914–2004) * Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008) *
Doris Blair Doris Violet Blair, later Doris Bourguignon (born 1915) was a British 20th century artist who worked in a range of media. She is possibly best known for her depictions of life in Northern Ireland during World War II. Biography Blair was born ...
(born 1915) * Terry Frost (1915–2003) * William Gear (1915–1997) * Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990) *
Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement o ...
(1917–2011) *
Michael Kidner Michael James Kidner (11 September 1917 – 2009) was a British op artist. Active from mid-1960s, Kidner was an early exponent of the genre. Through his interest in mathematics, he was part of the Constructivism (art), Constructivism moveme ...
(1917–2009) *
Mary Audsley Mary C. Audsley (1919-2008) was a British painter and sculptor. Biography Audsley was born at Eton in Berkshire. Audsley studied at the Westminster School of Art between 1934 and 1938, where she was taught by Eric Schilsky, Mark Gertler and B ...
(1919–2008) * Eden Box (1919–1988) *
Francis Davison Francis Davison (1919–1984) was a British visual artist and painter. His later work, starting shortly after his marriage to Margaret Mellis in 1948, is characterised by the use of collage: coloured printed paper layered and mounted on board. Da ...
(1919–1984) * Colin Hayes (1919–2003) * Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) born in Berlin; lived in Liverpool * Patrick Heron (1920–1999) *
John Christoforou John Christoforou (10 March 1921 – February 2014) was a British painter of Greek heritage. He spent his childhood in Greece, but returned to England in 1938. With the outbreak of the war, he joined the Royal Air Force where he flew missions in ...
(1921–2014) * John Craxton (1922–2009) * Richard Hamilton (artist) (1922–2011) * Lucian Freud (1922–2011) *
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 Laur ...
(1923–2010) * Paul Bird (1923–1993) * Peter Folkes (1923–2019) * Martin Froy (1926–2017) *
Ann Thetis Blacker Ann Thetis Blacker (13 December 1927 – 18 December 2006) was an English painter and singer. She was noted for her richly coloured pictures, especially using the batik wax-resist fabric dyeing process. Blacker was born in Holmbury St Mary, Surr ...
(1927–2006) * Peter Brook (1927–2009) * John Plumb (1927–2008) * Patrick Swift (1927–1983) born in Ireland *
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 o ...
(1928–2007) *
Elizabeth Jane Lloyd Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (14 July 1928 – 20 October 1995) was a British artist and teacher. As an artist she worked in oils and watercolours, produced murals and also painted film sets. Biography Lloyd was born in London to a well-connected artis ...
(1928–1995) * Adrian Morris (1929–2004) * Gillian Ayres (1930–2018) * Mardi Barrie (1930–2004) * Robyn Denny (1930–2014) *
Eva Frankfurther Eva Frankfurther (10 February 1930 – January 1959) was a German-born British artist known for her depictions of the immigrant communities of the East End of London in the 1950s. Biography Frankfurther was born in the Dahlem (Berlin), Dahlem d ...
(1930–1959) born in Germany * Martin Bradley (born 1931) * Ken Messer (1931–2018) * Bridget Riley (born 1931) * Peter Blake (born 1932) * Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017) * Moira Huntly (born 1932) *
Norman Douglas Hutchinson Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) was a British Royal painter, noted for his 1988 painting of Queen Elizabeth II. History Hutchinson was born in Calcutta, India on Oct. 11, 1932. He was the illegitimate child of Hon. Eric Douglas – ...
(1932–2010) *
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) *
Alexander Goudie Alexander Goudie (11 November 1933 – 9 March 2004) was a Scottish figurative painter. Education and Training Alexander Goudie was born in the Renfrewshire town of Paisley, Scotland, in 1933. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art under Willi ...
(1933–2004) * John Hoyland (1934–2011) * Jeremy Moon (1934–1973) *
Ivor Davies Ivor Davies may refer to: * Ivor Davies (politician) (1915–1986), British Liberal Party member and parliamentary candidate * Ivor Davies (artist) (born 1935), Welsh artist * Ivor Davies (priest) (1917–1992), British priest and Archdeacon of Lewi ...
(born 1935) * Ken Kiff (1935–2001) * Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) *
Timothy Behrens Timothy John Behrens (2 June 1937 – 2017) was a British painter who spent most of his professional life as a painter and a writer abroad, in Greece, Italy, and Spain. Early life Timothy John Behrens was born in London on 2 June 1937, the so ...
(1937–2017) * David Hockney (born 1937) * Tess Jaray (born 1937) * Bryan Organ (born 1935) *
Margot Perryman Margot Perryman (born 1938) is a British artist. Margot Perryman was born in 1938 in Plymouth, and studied at the Harrow School of Art, which is now part of the University of Westminster, and then specialised in painting at the Slade School of A ...
(born 1938) *
William Tillyer William Tillyer (born 28 September 1938) is a British artist working within painting, watercolour and the printmaking tradition. His approach is constantly evolving; redefining and reinterpreting classic subject matter, such as landscapes, still ...
(born 1938) *
Mario Dubsky Mario Dubsky (1939 – 4 August 1985) was an artist born in London, England, to Viennese Jewish parents who had converted to Christianity. Life and career Early life Accepted at the Slade School of Fine Art at the unusually young age of 17, Dub ...
(1939–1985) *
John Wonnacott John Henry Wonnacott CBE (born 1940, London, England) is a British painter. Wonnacott trained at the Slade School of Fine Art during 1958–63. He taught at Reading University's department of fine art alongside Ray Atkins from 1965 to 1973, reca ...
(born 1940) *
Robert Lenkiewicz Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (31 December 1941 – 5 August 2002) was one of South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times. Perennially unfashionable in high art circles, his work was nevertheless popular with the public.
(1941–2002) * Sheila Mullen (born 1942) * Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015) *
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 Oxfor ...
(born 1944) *
Claire Dalby Joy Claire Allison Dalby (born 20 November 1944) is a British artist and book illustrator who mainly depicts botanical subjects and who works in watercolours, gouache and wood engraving. Biography Dalby, whose father was the respected watercolo ...
(born 1944) *
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) *
Jonathon Coudrille Jonathon Xavier Coudrille (born Jonathan Coudrill; November 1945) is an English artist, musician and writer. He has lived from a young age on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, an area with which he is still closely associated. His father was th ...
(born 1945) *
P. J. Crook Pamela June Crook (born 1945), known professionally as P J Crook, is an English painter and sculptor. Her shows have appeared in London, France, the United States, Japan, Canada, and Estonia. Her professional name "P J Crook" lacks full stops; ...
(born 1945) * Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945) * David Imms (born 1945) * Sean Scully (born 1945) – born in Dublin, Ireland; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad. *
Timothy Hyman Timothy Hyman (born 1946) is a British figurative painter, art writer and curator. He has published monographs on both Sienese Painting and on Pierre Bonnard, as well as most recently ''The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Ce ...
(born 1946) * Edward Kelly (born 1946) *
John Virtue John Virtue (born 1947), is an English artist who specialises in monochrome landscapes. He is honorary Professor of Fine Art at the University of Plymouth, and from 2003 to 2005 was the sixth Associate Artist at London's National Gallery.
(born 1947) *
Howard J. Morgan Howard James Morgan (21 April 1949 – 22 September 2020) was a British portrait painter who painted three queens. His work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Life and work He was born in Denbigh, North Wales, ...
(1949–2020) *
Terance James Bond Terance James Bond (born September 1946 in Suffolk, died April 2023) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of birds Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, t ...
(born 1946)


Born 1950–1999

* Cherryl Fountain (born 1950) * Roy Petley (born 1951) *
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (2 May 1952 − 17 December 2012) was a visual artist who was born in Awka (Oka), Anambra state, Nigeria, but spent much of her young life in Ikom on the Cameroon border, before moving back to the family home at ...
MBE (1952-2012) *
Jeremy Henderson Jeremy Henderson was an Anglo-Irish artist and painter. Henderson was Artist in Residence at Kingston University, with art exhibited at the Royal Academy and National Art Collections. Life Jeremy Henderson was born at Lisbellaw, County Ferma ...
(born 1952) * Deirdre Hyde (born 1953) * Charlotte Verity (born 1954) * Vivien Blackett (born 1955) * Peter Edwards (born 1955) *
Nicholas Hely Hutchinson Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955) is a painter, based in Dorset. Initially influenced by Dufy and Matisse, he has also drawn on the English NeoRomantic tradition. He settled near Blandford, Dorset, and the countryside of that county and Wil ...
(born 1955) * Jo Self (born 1956) *
Panayiotis Kalorkoti Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 11 April 1957, Cyprus) is a British artist. He works primarily in acrylics and watercolour, and has also produced drawings, etchings, screenprints, lithographs and monotypes. His work is figurative and features bri ...
(born 1957) *
John O'Carroll John Patrick O'Carroll (born 1958 in Cornwall, England) is a British archaeological illustrator, painter, and sculptor. John O'Carroll studied at the Cornwall College of Art. He worked as an archaeological illustrator at the Dakhla Oasis in ...
(born 1958) *
Peter Doig Peter Doig ( ; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting ''White Canoe'' sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction rec ...
(born 1959) * Claudette Johnson (born 1959) *
David Leapman David Leapman (born 1959) is an English painter, who won the John Moores Painting Prize in 1995. Biography Leapman studied in London at St Martin's School of Art, Goldsmiths College and Chelsea College of Art. His work often uses unusual mater ...
(born 1959) * Ian Davenport (born 1960) *
Nick Fudge Nick Fudge (aka Nicholas Fudge, born 12 August 1961) is a British painter, sculptor, and digital artist. Fudge studied at Goldsmiths College, London, as a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) generation along with Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas ...
(born 1960) * Keith Piper (born 1960) * Sonia Boyce (born 1962) * Gary Hume (born 1962) * Tod Hanson (born 1963) *
Guy Denning Guy Denning (born 1965) is a self-taught English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group and part of the urban art scene in Bristol.Metcalfe, Anna"Off the streets" ''Financial Times'', 26 May 2 ...
(born 1965) * Damien Hirst (born 1965) *
George Shaw George Shaw may refer to: * George Shaw (biologist) (1751–1813), English botanist and zoologist * George B. Shaw (1854–1894), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin * George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright * George C. Shaw (1866–196 ...
(born 1966) * Chris Ofili (born 1968) * Chantal Joffe (born 1969) *
Justin Mortimer Justin Mortimer (born 1970) is an English painter, recognized for his paintings of well known high society including Harold Pinter, Sir Steve Redgrave and Queen Elizabeth II. He won the National Gallery's BP Portrait Award in 1991. Early life ...
(born 1970) * Banksy (born c. 1974) *
Tom Palin Tom Palin is a British painter. Education Palin grew up in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, and from the University of Manchester with an MA in Art History. He co ...
(born 1974) *
Stuart Pearson Wright Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975, Northampton) is an English portrait artist, winner of the BP Portrait Award. Life and works Wright went to school in Eastbourne, Sussex and graduated from Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London (1 ...
(born 1975) *
Idris Khan Idris Khan OBE (born 1978) is a British artist based in London.Biography
Victoria Miro Gallery
Khan's ...
(born 1978) * Kate Groobey (born 1979) * David Wightman (born 1980)


Unknown year, born 20th century

* Charles Harris


See also

* British art *
English school of painting English art is the body of visual arts made in England. England has Europe's earliest and northernmost ice-age cave art. Prehistoric art in England largely corresponds with art made elsewhere in contemporary Britain, but early medieval Anglo-Sa ...
* List of British artists


External links


ArtUK - British Artists
- Database of British Painters whose work is in UK Public Collections.


References

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