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painters (in chronological order).

English painters

Born 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 ...

(c. 1540–1596) * Nicolas Hilliard (1547–1619) *Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627) *

Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen Cornelis Janssens (born Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, ; 14 October 1593 – 5 August 1661) was an Anglo-Dutch painter of portraits. Born of Dutch or Flemish parents who fled to London from Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Cornelis Jans ...

(1593–1661) *Sir

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) born in

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Principal Painter in Ordinary The title of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King or Queen of England or, later, Great Britain, was awarded to a number of artists, nearly all mainly portraitists. It was different from the role of Serjeant Painter, and similar to the earli ...

to the King * William Larkin (1580–1619)

Born 17th century

* Emmanuel de Critz (1608–1665) *

William Dobson William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised); 28 October 1646 (buried)) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "''the most excellent painter that England has yet bred''". He ...

(1610–1646) *

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) *

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)

to Charles II (1661) * Oliver de Critz (1626–1651) * Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713) *

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Henry Cooke (1642–1700) *Sir

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 ...

(1646–1723) * John Riley, or Ryley (1646–1691) * Marmaduke Cradock (1660–1716) *Sir

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) *

Edward Byng Edward Byng (''ca.'' 1676 – 1753), sometimes spelt Bing, was an English portrait artist. Thought to be a native of Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire t ...

(c. 1676–1753) *

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) *

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) *

Isaac Whood Isaac Whood (1689 – 24 February 1752) was an English painter, who was known for being a great imitator of the painting styles of Godfrey Kneller. Biography Born 1689, Whood practised for many years as a portrait-painter in Lincoln's Inn Fiel ...

(1689–1752) *

Joseph Highmore Joseph Highmore (13 June 16923 March 1780) was an English painter of Portrait painting, portraits, conversation pieces and History painting, history subjects, illustrator and author. After retiring from his career as a painter at the age of 70, h ...

(1692–1780) *

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) *

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)

British painters

Born 18th century

* Thomas Hudson (1701–1779) * Mary Hoare (1744–1820) *

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) *

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) * Sir William Beechey (1753–1839) * John Shackleton (1714–1767)

to George II and

George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and ...

* Richard Wilson (1714–1782) * William Keable (1714–1774) *

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) *

Sir 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)

to the King *

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) *

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) *

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) *

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) born in

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Peter Perez Burdett Peter Perez Burdett (c. 1734 – 9 September 1793) was an 18th-century cartographer, surveying, surveyor, artist, and technical drawing, draughtsman originally from Eastwood, Essex, Eastwood in Essex where he inherited a small estate and chose ...

(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 Jeremiah Meyer (born Jeremias Majer; 18 January 1735 – 19 January 1789) was an 18th-century English miniature painter. He was Painter in Miniatures to Queen Charlotte, Painter in Enamels to King George III and was one of the founder membe ...

(1735–1789) born in

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* Richard Wright (1735–c.1775) * Amos Green (1735–1807) * Mary Benwell (1739–after 1800) *

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) *

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) born in

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* Matthew William Peters (1742–1814) *

Mary Moser Mary Moser (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an England, English Painting, painter and one of the most celebrated female artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 (along with Angel ...

(1744–1819) *

William Hodges William Hodges (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, includin ...

(1744–1797) * Henry Walton (1746–1813) * William Tate (1747–1806) * Richard Morton Paye (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

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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) *

Henry Bone Henry Bone (6 February 1755 – 17 December 1834) was an English Vitreous enamel, enamel painter. By he had attracted royal patronage for his portrait miniatures This patronage continued throughout the reigns of three monarchs; George I ...

(1755–1834) *

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) * Thomas Hardy (1757-1804) * George William Sartorius (1759–1828) *

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) *

Sir 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)

to the King * George Augustus Wallis (1761–1847) *

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) * Samuel Drummond (1766–1844) *

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) * Thomas Barker (1769–1847) * James Ward (1769–1859) * William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831) * Edward Bird (1772–1819) * Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774–1837) *

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) *

Joseph Mallord William 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) *

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 (1778–1831) * John Varley (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 Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1854) was an animal and landscape painter. Davis was born at Watford in 1782. He studied under William Evans of Eton, under William Beechey, and in the schools of the Royal Academy, where he first exhibited in 1 ...

(1782–1854) *

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) * David Cox (1783–1859) * Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841)

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. 1785–1854) *

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) * William Mulready (1786–1863) *

William Etty William Etty (10 March 1787 – 13 November 1849) was an English artist best known for his history paintings containing nude figures. He was the first significant British painter of nudes and still lifes. Born in York, he left sch ...

(1787–1849) * John Martin (1789–1854) * William Linton (1791–1876) * Sir George Hayter (1792–1871)

to the Queen * Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872) * Francis Danby (1793–1861) *

Charles Robert Leslie Charles Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an American genre painter. Biography Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years of age he returned with them to the United States, where they settled in Phila ...

(1794–1859) * Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860) * Henry Collen (1797–1879) *

Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (; Paris, 17 July 1797 – Paris, 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subje ...

(1797–1856) * Joseph Stannard (1797–1830) *

Frederick Richard Lee Frederick Richard Lee (10 June 1798 in Barnstaple, Devon – 5 June 1879 in Vleesch Bank, South Africa) was an English artist. Life file:1862 painting of the Rock of Gibraltar by Frederick Richard Lee, Windmill Hill Barracks at the far side o ...

(1798–1879) *

Thomas Witlam Atkinson Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861) was an England, English architect, artist and traveller in Siberia and Central Asia. Between 1847 and 1853 he travelled over 40 000 miles through Central Asia and Siberia, much of the time together with his wife ...

(1799–1861) * Samuel Atkins, marine painter

Born 19th century

Born 1800–1824

* John Hayter (1800–1895) * Thomas Webster (1800–1886) * James Digman Wingfield (1800-1872) * Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873) * Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) *

John Scarlett Davis John Scarlett Davis (1 September 1804 – 29 September 1845), or Davies, was an English landscape painting, landscape, portrait painting, portrait and architectural painter, and lithographer.Tony Hobbs, ''John Scarlett Davis: A Biography'', ...

(1804–1845) * Edwin Wilkins Field (1804–1871) * William Knight Keeling (1807–1886) * George Armfield (1808–1893) * Thomas Baker (1809–1864) * William Edward Frost (1810–1877) * James Peel (1811-1906) * Henry Dawson (1811–1878) * Ebenezer Colls (1812–1887) * Richard Barnett Spencer (1812–1897) *

Thomas Musgrave Joy Thomas Musgrave Joy (9 July 1812 – 7 April 1866) was a British portraitist. Life Joy was born on 9 July 1812 in Boughton Hall (Kent), Boughton Hall in Boughton Monchelsea where his father was the squire. His parents, Thomas and Susanah, wer ...

(1812–1866) * Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) * Harry Hall (c. 1814–1882) * John Absolon (1815–1895) * James Francis Danby (1816–1875) *

Augustus Egg Augustus Leopold Egg RA (2 May 1816 – 26 March 1863) was a British Victorian artist, and member of The Clique best known for his modern triptych '' Past and Present'' (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family. Biog ...

(1816–1863) * Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879) * Henry Mark Anthony (1817–1886) *

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) *

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) * Thomas Danby (1817–1886) *

John Callcott Horsley John Callcott Horsley (29 January 1817 – 18 October 1903) was a British academic Painting, painter of genre painting, genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist's colony ...

(1817–1903) * John Phillip (1817–1867) *

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) * Margaret Backhouse (1818–1888) * Louisa Beresford (1818–1891) * John Anster Fitzgerald (c. 1819–1906) *

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) *

James Sant James Sant (1820–1916) was a British painter specialising in portraits and known particularly for images of women and children and artistic exploration of the symbolism of childhood. He was a member of the Royal Academy. George Sant and Sarah ...

(1820–1916) *

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) * 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 Paton was born in Wo ...

(1821–1901) * James Smetham (1821–1889) * Thomas Holroyd (1821–1904) * Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893) *

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 ...

(1822–1904) * George Hardy (1822–1909) * William Simpson (1823–1899) * William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916) * Martha Darley Mutrie (1824–1885) * Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910)

Born 1825–1849

* Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) * Annie Feray Mutrie (1826–1893) * David Cooke Gibson (1827–1856) *

Frederick Daniel Hardy Frederick Daniel Hardy (13 February 1827 – 1 April 1911) was an English genre works, genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony of artists. Early life Frederick Daniel Hardy was born at Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor in Berkshire, the ...

(1827–1911) *

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) * John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882) * George Bernard O'Neill (1828–1917) *

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) * Anna Blunden (1829–1915) * John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897) * John Finnie (1829–1907) *

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) *

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) * John Samuel Raven (1829–1877) * Lord Frederick Leighton (1830–1896) * Helen Mabel Trevor (1831–1900) * Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) *

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) * Henrietta Ward (1832–1924) *

George Henry Boughton George Henry Boughton (4 December 1833 – 19 January 1905) was an English-American, Anglo-American landscape and genre Painting, painter, illustrator and writer. Early life and education Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the ...

(1833–1905) *

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) *

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 ...

(1833–1921) *

Frederic Shields Frederic James Shields (14 March 1833 – 26 February 1911) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British artist, illustrator, and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox ...

(1833–1911) *

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) * Emily Mary Osborn (1834–1913) *

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

(1836–1912) born in

Dronrijp Dronryp () is a village in the Dutch municipality of Waadhoeke. On 1 January 2017, it had 3,281 inhabitants. History and architecture Before 2018, the village was part of the Menameradiel municipality. A few centuries BC, a settlement developed ...

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) * Walter Field (1837–1901) * Charles Stuart (1838–1907) * Walter Goodman (1838–1912) * Horatio Joseph Lucas (1839-1873) *

Charles Edward Perugini Charles Edward Perugini (1 September 1839 – 22 December 1918), originally Carlo Perugini, was an Italian-born England, English painter of the Romanticism, Romantic and Victorian era. Biography Perugini was born in Naples, but lived with ...

(1839–1918) *

Kate Perugini Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini (''née'' Dickens; 29 October 1839 – 9 May 1929) was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Catherine Dickens and Charles Dickens. Biography Born Catherine Dickens and nicknamed ...

(1839–1929) * John Clayton Adams (1840–1906) * Philip Augustus Barnard (1840–1884) *

Albert Joseph Moore Albert Joseph Moore (4 September 184125 September 1893) was an English painter, known for his depictions of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world. Life Moore was born at York on 4 September 184 ...

(1841–1893) * Edith Martineau (1842–1909) * Edwin Ellis (1842–1895) * Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922) * Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – marine painter * Clara Montalba (1842–1929) * Herbert William Weekes (c. 1842–unknown) * Louise Jopling (1843–1933) * Bernard Walter Evans (1843–1922) * Isabel Dacre (1844–1933) * Tristram Ellis (1844–1922) * Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904) * Frances C. Fairman (1839–1923) * Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927) * Annie Swynnerton (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 in 1845. Her parents were Anna (born ) Cowan and Henry Starr. They were cousins of Italian heritage but they had been born ...

(1845–1909) * Edith Corbet (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 Marian Ellis Rowan (30 July 18484 October 1922), known as Ellis Rowan, was a well-known Australian artist and botanical illustrator. She also did a series of illustrations on birds, butterflies and insects. Life Marian, the daughter of Maria ...

(1847–1922) *

Helen Allingham Helen Allingham (Birth name, née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era. Biography Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in ...

(1848–1926) * Helen Thornycroft (1848–1937) *

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) * John Reinhard Weguelin (1849–1927) * William Thornley (fl. 1858–1898)

Born 1850–1874

* Walter Daniel Batley (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) ...

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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 (1852–1909) * George Clausen (1852–1944) * Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (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 (1853–1928) * Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922) * Alfred Robert Quinton (1853–1934) * Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854–1929) * Caroline Gotch (1854–1945) * Frank Markham Skipworth (1854–1929) * George Paice (1854–1925) * Edward Wilkins Waite (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 l ...

(1855–1927) *

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) * Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919) * Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893) * Jane Mary Dealy, Lady Lewis (1856–1939) * Alice Hirschberg (1856–1913) * Joseph Vickers de Ville (1856–1925) * William Wells Quatremain (1857–1930) * William Stott-of-Oldham (1857–1900) * Arthur Melville (1858–1904) *

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) * George Henry (1858–1943) *

Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes Elizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong; 29 December 1859 – 16 March 1912) was a Canadians, Canadian Painting, painter who was primarily active in the UK. She often featured children in her paintings and ''School Is Out'' (painted in Newl ...

(1859–1912) * Henrietta Rae (1859–1928) * Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940) *

Lewis Charles Powles Lewis Charles Powles (29 January 1860 – 6 July 1942) was a British artist. Early life and education Powles was born in Cirencester, England, in January 1860, one of six children. (Document) His father was Rev. Henry C. Powles. Powles attended ...

(1860–1942) * Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951) * Margaret Bernadine Hall (1863–1910) * George Phoenix (1863–1935) * Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) *

Arthur Lowe Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor. His acting career spanned 37 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 per ...

(1865–1931) * Louise Pickard (1865–1928) * Charles Spencelayh (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 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) * Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) * Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) born in

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

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) born in

Bruges Bruges ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is in the northwest of the country, and is the sixth most populous city in the country. The area of the whole city amoun ...

* Percy Robertson (1868–1934) * Ursula Wood (1868–1925) * Mary Baylis Barnard (1870–1946) * Mary McEvoy (1870–1941) * Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898) *

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) * William Heath Robinson (1872–1944) * Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1932) * Alexander Scott (1872–1932) * William Nicholson (1872–1949) * Louie Burrell (1873–1971) * Amy Drucker (1873–1951) * Arthur Miles Moss (1873-1948) * Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942) * Isabel Codrington (1874–1943)

Born 1875–1899

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) * Madge Oliver (1875–1924) *

Sophie Atkinson Sophie Atkinson (28 November 1876 – 5 May 1972), born Sophia Mildred Atkinson, was an English watercolour landscape painter and illustrator. Biography Atkinson was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 28 November 1876. She was the d ...

(1876–1972) * Winifred Austen (1876–1964) * Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers (1876–1939) *

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) * Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958) *

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) * Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967) * Walter Ernest Webster (1877–1959) * Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960) * Eliza Mary Burgess (1878–1961) * May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878–1943) *

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) *

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) * Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966) * John Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954) *

Anna Airy Anna Airy (6 June 1882 – 23 October 1964) was an English oil painter, pastel artist and etcher. She was one of the first women officially commissioned as a war artist and was recognised as one of the leading women artists of her generation. E ...

(1882–1964) * Gladys Kathleen Bell (1882–1965) * Teresa Copnall (1882–1972) * Helen Edwards (1882–1963) * Richard Howard Penton (1882–1960) * Eleanor Hughes (1882–1952) * Averil Burleigh (1883–1949) * Montague Birrell Black 1884-1964) * John Currie (1884–1914) *

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 (British magazine), Blast'', the literary magazine of the Vorticists. His ...

(1884–1957) * Louisa Puller (1884–1963) * Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976) *

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) * Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934) * Evelyn Abelson (1886–1967) * Mary Jewels (1886–1977) * James Ardern Grant (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, Greater Manchester (where he lived and worked for more than 40 years) as well as County Borough o ...

(1887–1976) * Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller (1887–1979) * Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950) * Stanley Royle (1888–1961) * Paul Cranfield Smyth (1888–1963) * Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960) * Nora Cundell (1889–1948) * Paul Nash (1889–1946) *

Cedric Morris Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet (11 December 1889 – 8 February 1982) was a British artist, Visual arts education, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea in South Wales, but worked mainly in East Anglia. As an artist he is be ...

(1889–1982) * Marlow Moss (1889-1958) *Sir Henry Rushbury (1889–1968) * Ruth Simpson (1889–1964) *

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) * Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) * Leon Underwood (1890–1975) * Grace English (1891–1956) *

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) *

Dora Carrington Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytt ...

(1893–1932) * Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) *

Cowan Dobson David Cowan Dobson R.B.A., (1894–1980) was a leading Scottish portrait artist who first exhibited at Royal Academy when aged only nineteen and began showing at the Royal Scottish Academy four years later. Dobson's works were also exhibited at ...

(1894–1980) * Kaff Gerrard (1894–1970) * Meredith Frampton (1894–1984) *

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) * Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973) * Henry George Hoyland (1895-1947) *

Harry Bateman Harry Bateman FRS (29 May 1882 – 21 January 1946) was an English mathematician with a specialty in differential equations of mathematical physics. With Ebenezer Cunningham, he expanded the views of spacetime symmetry of Lorentz and Poinca ...

(1896–1976) * George Bissill (1896–1973) * Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) * Billie Waters (1896–1979) * Dorothy Coke (1897–1979) * Hans Feibusch (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 (1889–1972) *

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)

Unknown year, born 19th century

* Edward Pritchett (

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for '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 indic ...

1828–1864) * Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879) * Sara Macgregor (d. 1919)

Born 20th century

Born 1900–1949

* George Lambourn (1900–1977) * Elsie Dalton Hewland (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 (1902–1951) *

John Melville John William Melville (25 August 1902 – 8 December 1986) was a self-taught British Surrealism, Surrealist painter. He is described by Michel Remy in his book ''Surrealism in Britain'' as one of the "harbingers of surrealism" in Great Britain ...

(1902–1986) *

Thomas Symington Halliday Thomas Symington Halliday (11 April 1902 – 22 May 1998) was a Scottish artist and teacher. Although Halliday was an accomplished sculptor, painter and teacher, he is also known for his designs for stained glass windows. Biography Halliday ...

(1902–1998) * 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) *

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) *

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) * 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) * George Fisher Gilmour (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 (1905–1987) *

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) * Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997) * Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999) * Patrick Hall (1906–1992) * Edgar Hubert (1906–1985) * Clifford Ellis (1907–1985) * Frank Egginton (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 (1909–1952) *

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) * Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956) * Isabel Alexander (1910–1996) * John Bensusan-Butt (1911–1997) * John Kingsley Cook (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) * Gwen Barnard (1912–1988) * Fay Pomerance (1912–2001) * Raymond Teague Cowern (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 Goldsmith ...

(1914–2000) * John Bridgeman (1914–2004) * Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008) * Doris Blair (born 1915) *

Terry Frost Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in ...

(1915–2003) * William Gear (1915–1997) *

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) *

Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born, naturalised Mexican 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 movem ...

(1917–2011) * Michael Kidner (1917–2009) * Mary Audsley (1919–2008) * Eden Box (1919–1988) * Francis Davison (1919–1984) *

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) * Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) born in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

; lived in

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

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) * John Christoforou (1921–2014) *

John Craxton John Leith Craxton RA, (3 October 1922 – 17 November 2009) was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian". Biography Career John was the son of musician Harold ...

(1922–2009) * Richard Hamilton (1922–2011) *

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) *

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) * Paul Bird (1923–1993) * Peter Folkes (1923–2019) * Martin Froy (1926–2017) * Eric Rimmington (1926–2024) * Ann Thetis Blacker (1927–2006) *

Peter Brook Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shak ...

(1927–2009) * John Plumb (1927–2008) *

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 * John Copnall (1928–2007) * Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995) * Adrian Morris (1929–2004) * Gillian Ayres (1930–2018) * Mardi Barrie (1930–2004) * Robyn Denny (1930–2014) * Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959) born in Germany *

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 ...

(1931–2024) born in Germany * Martin Bradley (1931–2023) * Ken Messer (1931–2018) *

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) * Peter Blake (born 1932) *

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) * Moira Huntly (born 1932) * Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) * Marc Vaux (born 1932) * Alexander Goudie (1933–2004) * Dennis Roy Hodds (1933–1987) *

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) * Jeremy Moon (1934–1973) * Ivor Davies (born 1935) * Ken Kiff (1935–2001) * Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) * Timothy Behrens (1937–2017) *

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) *

Tess Jaray Tess Jaray (born 1937) is a British painter and printmaker. She taught at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL from 1968 until 1999. Over the last twenty years Jaray has completed a succession of major public art projects. She was made an Honorary ...

(born 1937) *

Bryan Organ Bryan Organ (born 31 August 1935 in Leicester) is a British artist considered one of the leading and most innovative English portrait painters of the 20th century. His paintings have included portraits of prominent public figures and of members ...

(born 1935) * Margot Perryman (born 1938) * William Tillyer (born 1938) * Mario Dubsky (1939–1985) * John Wonnacott (born 1940) * Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002) * Sheila Mullen (born 1942) * Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015) * Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944) * Claire Dalby (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 (born 1945) * P. J. Crook (born 1945) * Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945) * David Imms (born 1945) *

Sean Scully Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving fro ...

(born 1945) – born in Dublin; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad. * Timothy Hyman (born 1946) * Tony Foster (born 1946) * Edward Kelly (born 1946) * John Virtue (born 1947) * Howard J. Morgan (1949–2020) * Terance James Bond (1946–2023)

Born 1950–1999

* Cherryl Fountain (born 1950) * Braaq (1951-1997) * Roy Petley (born 1951) * Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952-2012) * Jeremy Henderson (1952-2009) *

Brian Clarke Sir Brian Clarke (born 2 July 1953) is a British Painting, painter, architectural artist, designer and Printmaking, printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, symbolist paintings, set designs, and collaborations w ...

(born 1953) * Shani Rhys James (born 1953) * Deirdre Hyde (born 1953) * Charlotte Verity (born 1954) * Vivien Blackett (born 1955) * Peter Edwards (born 1955) * Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955) * Jo Self (born 1956) * Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957) * John O'Carroll (born 1958) *

Peter Doig Peter Doig ( ; born 17 April 1959) is a painter of Scottish nationality who has lived and worked between Trinidad, Canada, the USA, Germany and Britain. He settled in Trinidad with his family between 2002 and 2021, when he moved back to London. ...

(born 1959) * Claudette Johnson (born 1959) * David Leapman (born 1959) * Ian Davenport (born 1960) * Nick Fudge (born 1960) * Keith Piper (born 1960) *

Sonia Boyce Dame Sonia Dawn Boyce (born 1962) is a British British African-Caribbean community, Afro-Caribbean artist and educator who lives and works in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Boyce's research ...

(born 1962) *

Gary Hume Gary Stewart Hume (born 9 May 1962) is an English artist. Hume's work is strongly identified with the YBA who came to prominence in the early 1990s. Hume lives and works in London and Accord, New York.

(born 1962) *

Tod Hanson Yoan "ToD" Merlo is a French former professional player of the real-time strategy games ''Warcraft III'' and ''Starcraft II''. In ''WarCraft III'' he played as the Human race and in ''StarCraft'' he played as Protoss. he was signed to the top e ...

(born 1963) * Guy Denning (born 1965) *

Damien Hirst Damien Steven Hirst (; né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest ...

(born 1965) * George Shaw (born 1966) *

Chris Ofili Christopher Ofili, (born 10 October 1968) is a British painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was Turner Prize-winner and one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in ...

(born 1968) *

Chantal Joffe Chantal Joffe (born 5 October 1969) is an American-born English artist based in London.Royal Academy of ArtsChantal Joffe RA Elect , Artist , Royal Academy of Arts accessdate: 29/08/2014 Her often large-scale paintings generally depict women ...

(born 1969) * Justin Mortimer (born 1970) *

Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive ep ...

(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 comp ...

(born 1974) *

Stuart Pearson Wright Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975) is an English artist, known principally for his portraits, Wright also works in sculpture, film and printmaking. He is first prize winner of the 2001 BP Portrait Award. Early life and education Stuart Pearson Wri ...

(born 1975) * Idris Khan (born 1978) * Kate Groobey (born 1979) * David Wightman (born 1980) * Seb Toussaint (born 1988) * Bianca Raffaella (born 1992)

Unknown year, born 20th century

* Freya Douglas-Morris * Charles Harris

External links

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

References

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Painters Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...