The following is a list of notable

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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 Cornelius Johnson or Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (; also Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen, Cornelis Jansz. van Ceulen and many other variants) (bapt. 14 October 1593 – bur. 5 August 1661) was an English painter of portraits of Netherlands, Dutch ...

(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

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

; Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King * William Larkin (1580–1619)

Born 17th century

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 Peter Monamy was an English people, English Marine art, marine painting, painter who lived between 1681 and 1749. Early life and family Peter Monamy was baptised at the church of St Botolph's Aldgate, St Botolph's-without-Aldgate, London, ...

(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 Mary Hoare (1744–1820) was an English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or ...

(1744–1820) * William Hoare (c. 1707–1792) * Francis Hayman (1708–1776) *

Sir William Beechey Sir William Beechey (12 December 175328 January 1839) was an English portraitist during the golden age of British painting. Early life Beechey was born at Burford, Oxfordshire, on 12 December 1753, the son of William Beechey, a solicitor, an ...

(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

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and

George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...

* Richard Wilson (1714–1782) *

William Keable William Keable (or Keeble) (1715–1774) was an English painter of portraits and conversation pieces. He was the son of John and Ann Keable and baptised at Cratfield, Suffolk in October 1715. His main period of success as an artist was in the 17 ...

(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 Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depend ...

(1723–1792) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King * George Stubbs (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 of ...

(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 Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

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

(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 Amos Green (1735–1807) was a British painter. Life Green was born at Halesowen, near Birmingham, where his family owned a small property, and was apprenticed to Baskerville, the Birmingham printer. He was chiefly occupied in painting trays an ...

(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 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 ...

(1740–1779) *

Henry Fuseli Henry Fuseli ( ; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli ; 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 works, such as ''The Nightmare'', deal with supernatura ...

(1741–1825) born in Zurich,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

* Matthew William Peters (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 Joseph Barney (1753 in Wolverhampton – 13 April 1832 in London), was a British painter and engraver. He is usually described as a pupil of Antonio Zucchi and Angelica Kauffman and as a fruit and flower painter to the Prince Regent. Tw ...

(1753–1832) * Charles Lewis (1753–1795) still life painter *

Maria Bell Lady Maria Bell (''née'' Hamilton; 26 December 17559 March 1825) was an English amateur painter (in oils) and sculptor. Life Maria Hamilton was born in Chelsea, London, the daughter of William Hamilton, an architect from a Scottish family, an ...

(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 an English painter, illustrator and engraver. His son, Robert T. Stothard was a painter ( fl. 1810): he painted the proclamation outside York Minster of Queen Victoria's accession to the t ...

(1755–1834) *

Henry Bone Henry Bone (6 February 1755 – 17 December 1834) was an English enamel painter who was officially employed in that capacity by three successive monarchs, George III, George IV and William IV. In his early career he worked as a porcelain a ...

(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 is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

(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 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 a ...

(1763–1804) *

Samuel Drummond Samuel Drummond (25 December 1766, London – 6 August 1844, London) was a British painter, especially prolific in portrait and marine genre painting. His works are on display in the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum and ...

(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 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 turbule ...

(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 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 and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator, author and a leading member of the Norwich School of painters. Born in Norwich, the son of a silk merchant and lace dealer, Cot ...

(1782–1842) * David Cox (1783–1859) * Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King * Caroline Maria Applebee (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 tactles ...

(1786–1846) *

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

(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 Sir George Hayter (17 December 1792 – 18 January 1871) was an England, English Painting, painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits. Victoria of the United Kingdom, Queen Vic ...

(1792–1871) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen *

Margaret Sarah Carpenter Margaret Sarah Carpenter (''née'' Geddes; 1793 – 13 November 1872) was an English painter. Noted in her time, she mostly painted portraits in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence. She was a close friend of Richard Parkes Bonington. Early life C ...

(1793–1872) *

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

(1793–1861) * Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) * Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860) *

Henry Collen Henry Collen (9 October 1797, Middlesex – 8 May 1879, Brighton) was an English miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and the Duchess of Kent. Later in life he turned to photography and was the first professiona ...

(1797–1879) *

Paul Delaroche Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 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 subjects from English ...

(1797–1856) *

Joseph Stannard Joseph Stannard (13 September 1797 7 December 1830) was an English marine, landscape and portrait painter. He was a talented and prominent member of the Norwich School of painters. After attending the Norwich Grammar School, his parents paid ...

(1797–1830) * Frederick Richard Lee (1798–1879) *

Thomas Witlam Atkinson Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861) was an 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 Lucy and ...

(1799–1861) * Samuel Atkins, marine painter

Born 19th century

Born 1800–1824

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 1835 ...

(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 Thomas Musgrave Joy (9 July 1812 – 7 April 1866) was a British portraitist. Life Joy was born on 9 July 1812 in Boughton Hall in Boughton Monchelsea where his father was the squire. His parents, Thomas and Susanah, were not keen on his choi ...

(1812–1866) *

Edmund John Niemann Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) was a prolific and highly successful British landscape artist working mostly in oils. Nine of his paintings are held in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Life and work Niemann was born in Islington, London in 18 ...

(1813–1876) * Harry Hall (c. 1814–1882) * John Absolon (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 Edward Matthew Ward, , (14 July 1816 – 15 January 1879) was a British painter who specialised in historical genre. He is best known for his murals in the Palace of Westminster depicting episodes in British history from the English Civil War to ...

(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. Child ...

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

George Frederic Watts George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817, in London – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things." Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical work ...

(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 John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 – 1906) was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main genre. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and ...

(c. 1819–1906) * William Powell Frith (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 (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 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 George Bernard O'Neill (17 July 1828 – 23 September 1917), was a prolific Irish genre painter, from 1859 a member of the Cranbrook Colony of artists. Life and work O'Neill was born in Dublin in Ireland, the ninth of fifteen children of a Du ...

(1828–1917) * Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) * Anna Blunden (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 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 ...

(1829–1896) * John Samuel Raven (1829–1877) * Lord Frederick Leighton (1830–1896) * Helen Mabel Trevor (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 William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...

(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 Netherlands, ...

(1836–1912) born in Dronrijp,

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

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 Walter Field (1 December 1837 – 23 December 1901) was an English painter. Biography He was the youngest son of Edwin Wilkins Field by his second wife, Letitia Kinder, and was born at Windmill Hill, Hampstead, on 1 December 1837. He was a li ...

(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 (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 (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 ...

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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 Augustus Edwin Mulready (23 Feb 1844 – 15 March 1904) was an English Genre works, genre painter whose work often depicted London street scenes with Street children, urchins and Flower seller, flower-sellers. Life and work Mulready came ...

(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 Helen Thornycroft (1848 – 11 November 1937) was an English painter and watercolourist of the Victorian era. Biography Born in London, she was a member of the Thornycroft family of sculptors, which included her maternal grandfather John Fr ...

(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 (fl. 1858–1898)

Born 1850–1874

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 ...

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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. (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 Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 18521 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteenth an ...

(1853–1922) * Alfred Robert Quinton (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 Alfred Wallis (18 August 1855 – 29 August 1942) was a British fisherman and artist 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 househol ...

(1855–1942) *

Evelyn De Morgan Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919), née Pickering, was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolis ...

(1855–1919) * Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893) * Jane Mary Dealy, 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 Arthur Melville (1855–1904) was a Scottish painter of Orientalist subjects, among others. Early life and art education Arthur Melville was born in Loanhead-of-Guthrie, Forfarshire (now Angus, Scotland) on 10 April 1855. The family move ...

(1858–1904) *

Henry Scott Tuke Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), was an English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is best known for his paintings of nude boys and young ...

(1858–1929) *

George Henry (painter) George Henry (1858–1943) was a Scottish Painting, painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School. Life Henry was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Irvine, North Ayrshire, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, later in William ...

(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 Lewis Charles Powles (29 January 1860 – 6 July 1942) was a British Artist. Powles was born in Cirencester, England, in January 1860, one of six children. (Document) His father was Rev. Henry C. Powles. He married Isabel Grace Wingfield on 21 Jan ...

(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 Margaret Bernadine Hall (10 March 1863 – 2 January 1910) was an English painter who spent most of her career in Paris. Few of her works have survived, but she is notable for her 1886 painting ''Fantine'', which hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, ...

(1863–1910) *

George Phoenix George Phoenix (1863–1935) was a British (Victorian/Edwardian) landscape, figurative and portrait artist and sculptor. He regularly exhibited his works in his native Wolverhampton and nationally. They are represented at Wolverhampton Art Galle ...

(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 Louise Pickard (12 December 1865–6 June 1928) was an English painter of still life, landscapes and portraits. Biography Pickard was born in Kingston upon Hull and studied at the Slade School of Art in London between 1898 and 1900 and then stu ...

(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 Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and 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 developme ...

(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 Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

Frank Brangwyn Sir Frank William Brangwyn (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator, and designer. Brangwyn was an artistic jack-of-all-trades. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced des ...

(1867–1956) born in

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ...

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 Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...

(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 William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives. In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson contr ...

(1872–1944) * Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1932) * Alexander Scott (1872–1932) * William Nicholson (1872–1949) * Louie Burrell (1873–1971) *

Amy Drucker Amy Julia Drucker (1873 – November 1951) was a British artist and educator of Jewish descent. Biography The daughter of a wine merchant and his wife from Germany, Drucker was born in London and grew up in Hampstead. She was educated at Sou ...

(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

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 (1876–1964) *

Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers (née Dods; 5 February 1876 – 13 June 1939) was a Scottish oil and pastel artist who was known for her paintings of towns and villages in southern Europe. Biography Dods-Withers was born at Congalton Mains at North ...

(1876–1939) *

Gwen John Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a 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 related tones. Although sh ...

(1876–1939) *

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

(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 (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 (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 (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 (1883–1949) * John Currie (artist) (1884–1914) * Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957) * Louisa Puller (1884–1963) * Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976) * Duncan Grant (1885–1978) * Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934) * Evelyn Abelson (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 (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 (1888–1963) * Margaret Lindsay Williams (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 Marjorie Jewel "Marlow" Moss (29 May 1889 – 23 August 1958) was a British Constructivist artist who worked in painting and sculpture. Biography Moss was born on 29 May 1889 in Kilburn in London. She was the daughter of Lionel and Fannie Moss ...

(1889-1958) *Sir

Henry Rushbury Sir Henry George Rushbury (28 October 1889 – 5 July 1968) was an English painter and etcher. Born the son of a clerk in Harborne, then on the outskirts of Birmingham, Rushbury studied on a scholarship under Robert Catterson Smith at the Birm ...

(1889–1968) * Ruth Simpson (1889–1964) * David Bomberg (1890-1957) * Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) *

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

(1890–1975) *

Grace English Grace Geraldine English (1891-4 December 1956) was a British painter and etcher. Biography English was born in London and as a teenager spent time in Paris and Germany. In Germany she met I. A. R. Wylie and produced illustrations for her book ...

(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 George Vernon Meredith Frampton (17 March 1894 – 16 September 1984) was a British painter and etcher, successful as a portraitist in the 1920s–1940s. His artistic career was short and his output limited because his eyesight began to f ...

(1894–1984) * Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) *

Cicely Mary Barker Cicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers. Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instructi ...

(1895–1973) *

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 Poincare ...

(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 Dorothy Josephine Coke (11 April 1897 – 1979) was an English artist notable for her work as a war artist on the British home front during the Second World War. Coke was also an art teacher and as an artist was known for her watercolours, whic ...

(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 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 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 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 and other English landsca ...

(1903–1942) * Ceri Richards (1903–1971) * Graham Sutherland (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, the only child of Stanley Davenport Adshead, architect, watercolourist, and Profes ...

(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 (1905–1987) *

Eliot Hodgkin Eliot Hodgkin (19 June 1905 – 30 May 1987) was an English painter, born at Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames, near Pangbourne, Berkshire."Eliot Hodgkin ''Painter & Collector'', p. 7 Hodgkin began with oil painting in the late 1920s and in 1937 ...

(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 (1909–1952) *

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...

(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 (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 January ...

(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 (1912–2001) * Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986) * Leonard Appelbee (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 i ...

(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 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 of ...

(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 (1919–2008) *

Eden Box Eden Fleming (1919-1988), known under the pseudonym Eden Box or E.Box, was a British artist who painted religious scenes often in a highly stylised, naive manner. Biography Box was born in London and studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic in ...

(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 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 winne ...

(1919–2003) *

Heinz Koppel Heinz Koppel (29 January 1919, Berlin - 1 December 1980, Cwmerfyn, Wales) was a British artist of German origin, who spent much of his life working in Wales. Life Koppel was born to Jewish parents in Berlin, where he grew up, but after the N ...

(1919–1980) born in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

; lived in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

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 b ...

(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 (1923–2010) * Paul Bird (1923–1993) *

Peter Folkes Peter Leonard Folkes (3 November 1923 – 7 January 2019) was an English painter. Education and early life Peter Folkes was born in Beaminster, Dorset, England in November 1923 along with his twin brother, Brian Frederick Folkes, to Leonard ...

(1923–2019) *

Martin Froy Martin Froy (9 February 1926 – 26 January 2017) was a painter of figures, interiors and landscapes; part of a school of British abstract artists which flourished between the 1950s and 70s. Early life Froy was born in London on 9 February 1926 ...

(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 John Plumb (6 February 1927 – 6 April 2008) was an English abstract painter who emerged in Britain after World War II.* Plumb was born in Luton, England and he attended the Byam Shaw School of Art in London at the age of 20. He also studied ...

(1927–2008) *

Patrick Swift Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or ...

(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 Adrian Grant Morris (18 May 1929 – 6 December 2004) was an England, English painter. Early life Morris was born in London, England. He spent his childhood in rural Somerset before the family moved to the United States, where he attended the ...

(1929–2004) * Gillian Ayres (1930–2018) *

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

(1930–2004) * Robyn Denny (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 Ken J. Messer (1931–2018) was a British watercolour painter and draughtsman. Ken Messer was born in Newport, South Wales, and was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys in Oxford, where he spent much of his time during his ...

(1931–2018) * Bridget Riley (born 1931) * Peter Blake (born 1932) *

Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British Painting, painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with Abstract art, abstraction. Early life Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1 ...

(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 (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 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.

(1934–2011) * Jeremy Moon (1934–1973) * Ivor Davies (born 1935) *

Ken Kiff __NOTOC__ Ken Kiff, (29 May 1935 – 15 February 2001) was an English figurative artist, was born in Dagenham and trained at Hornsey School of Art 1955-61. He came to prominence in the 1980s thanks to the championship of art critic Norbe ...

(1935–2001) *

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

(1936–2005) *

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 David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

(born 1937) *

Tess Jaray Tess Jaray (born 31 December 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 ...

(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 Osi Rhys Osmond (born Donald Malcolm Osmond; 28 June 1942 – 6 March 2015) was a Welsh painter and an occasional television and radio presenter. Biography Osmond was born in Bristol to Welsh parents from Wattsville, Sirhowy, Caerphilly, where ...

(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 David Imms (born 1945) is an English artist and painter. Imms was born near Derby and studied at Derby College of Art (1962–64) and at Central School of Art and Design, London (1964–67). He has had numerous one-man exhibitions and his work ...

(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, 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 Cherryl Angela Fountain (born 1950) is an English still life, landscape and botanical artist. As the daughter of a gamekeeper and a resident of rural east Kent, much of her work reflects an environment of farming, botanical gardens and country li ...

(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 Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria * Mbe language, a language of Nigeria * Mbe' language, language of Cameroon * ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language Molal ...

(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 Charlotte Verity, Lady Le Brun (born 1954) is a painter living and working in London, UK. A monograph on her work, ''Charlotte Verity'' was published by Ridinghouse, in November 2016. Biography Born in Germany, Verity attended the Slade Scho ...

(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 Jo Self (née Lee; born 15 January 1956) is an English contemporary artist and poet. Background Self was born and grew up on a Hertfordshire rural housing estate. Before becoming an artist, she worked in various jobs including as a croupier ...

(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 (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 Claudette Elaine Johnson (born 1959) is a British visual artist. She is known for her large-scale drawings of Black women and involvement with the BLK Art Group. She was described by Modern Art Oxford as "one of the most accomplished figurativ ...

(born 1959) * David Leapman (born 1959) *

Ian Davenport Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee. Life and work Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup, and studied art at the Northwich College of Art and Design in Cheshire and then at Goldsmiths C ...

(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 Sonia Dawn Boyce, (born 1962) is a British Afro-Caribbean artist and educator, living and working in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Boyce's research interests explore art as a social practic ...

(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 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 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 Kate Groobey (born 1979) is a British artist based in South Yorkshire and the South of France. Early life and education Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, Groobey was educated at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford receiving ...

(born 1979) * David Wightman (born 1980)

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* Charles Harris

External links

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

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