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English painters


Born 16th century

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George Gower George Gower (c.1540–1596) was an English portrait painter who became Serjeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth I in 1581. Biography Very little is known about his early life except that he was a grandson of Sir John Gower of Stittenham, North ...
(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 Dutch or Flemish pa ...
(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,
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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 earlie ...
to the King * William Larkin (1580–1619)


Born 17th century

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Emmanuel de Critz Emmanuel de Critz (25 September 1608 – 2 November 1665) was an English painter. He was called the "best portraitist in London" by Robert Walker. He was born and baptized in London on 25 September 1608, as the younger son of John, a painter ...
(1608–1665) *
William Dobson 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 or Scottish (he signed as both at times) portrait painter in the Baroque style. Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scotland, Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a consider ...
(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 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 earlie ...
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 Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713) was an English oil painter. Gibbs worked in Canterbury, Kent. He painted "''Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy''" in 1654, acquired by the Tate Britain gallery, London, in 1994. There are also works by Gibbs i ...
(1630/1–1713) * Edward Bower (fl. 1635–1667) * 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 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 ...
(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 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 (1689–1752) *
Joseph Highmore Joseph Highmore (13 June 1692 – 3 March 1780) was an England, English painter of Portrait painting, portraits, conversation pieces and History painting, history subjects, illustrator and author. After retiring from his career as a painter ...
(1692–1780) *
John Vanderbank John Vanderbank (9 September 1694 – 23 December 1739)Waterhouse, Ellis. ''Painting in Britain 1530–1790'' (Penguin Books, 1957). was a leading English portrait painter who enjoyed a high reputation during the last decade of George I of Gr ...
(1694–1739) *
William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like s ...
(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 William Hoare of Bath (c. 1707 – 12 December 1792) was a British portraitist, painter and printmaker. From c. 1740 to 1759, he was the leading Oil painting, oil portraitist at Bath, Somerset, until Thomas Gainsborough arrived in the town. ...
(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 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)
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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 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 earlie ...
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 Reynolds or Gainsborough ...
(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 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 in Cumbr ...
(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 ...
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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 Jeremiah Meyer (born ''Jeremias Majer''; 18 January 1735 – 20 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 me ...
(1735–1789) born in
Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...
* 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 (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,
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Matthew William Peters Matthew William Peters (1742 – 20 March 1814) was an English portrait and genre painter who later became an Anglican clergyman and chaplain to George IV. He became known as "William" when he started signing his works as "W. Peters".Simon ...
(1742–1814) *
Mary Moser Mary Moser (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English 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 Angelica Kauffman), Mose ...
(1744–1819) *
William Hodges William Hodges RA (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, inclu ...
(1744–1797) * Henry Walton (1746–1813) * William Tate (1747–1806) * Richard Morton Paye (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, and ...
(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 (1759–1828) *
Lemuel Francis Abbott Lemuel "Francis" Abbott (1760/61 – 5 December 1803) was an English portrait painter, famous for his painting of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (currently hanging in the Terracotta Room of number 10 Downing Street) and for those of other n ...
(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 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 earlie ...
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 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 painter of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists and founding members of the Norw ...
(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 William Armfield Hobday (1771 – 17 February 1831) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist whose clientele included royalty and the Rothschild family. Life Hobday was born in Birmingham, the eldest of 4 sons of Samuel Hobday (1746 ...
(1771–1831) *
Edward Bird Edward Bird (1772 – 2 November 1819) was an English Genre works, genre painter who spent most of his working life in Bristol, where the Bristol School of artists formed around him. He enjoyed a few years of popularity in London, where h ...
(1772–1819) *
Charles Henry Schwanfelder Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774–1837) was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter. Schwanfelder was born and died in Leeds. He was the son of a German decorative painter and started out helping his father to paint clock faces ...
(1774–1837) *
Thomas Girtin Thomas Girtin (18 February 17759 November 1802) was an English 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 Girtin was born in Sou ...
(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 (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 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 earlie ...
to the King *
Caroline Maria Applebee Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1786 – 16 September 1854) was an English artist, mostly in watercolour. Born in London,1851 United Kingdom census53, Crouch Street, Colchesterat ancestry.co.uk, accessed 15 May 2020 but baptized at St Margaret's C ...
(c. 1785–1854) *
Benjamin Haydon 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 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 scho ...
(1787–1849) * John Martin (1789–1854) * William Linton (1791–1876) *
Sir George Hayter Sir George Hayter (17 December 1792 – 18 January 1871) was an English painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits. Queen Victoria appreciated his merits and appointed Hayter h ...
(1792–1871)
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 earlie ...
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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 Charles Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an English 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 Philad ...
(1794–1859) *
Sir William Charles Ross Sir William Charles Ross (3 June 1794 – 20 Jan 1860) was an English portrait and portrait miniature painter of Scottish descent; early in his career, he was known for historical paintings. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1842. Life ...
(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 pa ...
(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 1862 painting of the Rock of Gibraltar with Windmill Hill Barracks in view Lee was the son of Thomas Lee o ...
(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 an ...
(1799–1861) * Samuel Atkins, marine painter


Born 19th century


Born 1800–1824

* John Hayter (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 (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, 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 (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 (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, were ...
(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 181 ...
(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, in London – 26 March 1863, in Algiers) 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 ...
(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 (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, Emily, and Anne. Brontë was rigorously tutored at h ...
(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, Orientalism, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre works, genre scenes, rendered w ...
(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 John Phillip (19 April 1817–1867) was a Victorian era Scottish painter best known for his portrayals of Spanish life. He started painting these studies after a trip to Spain in 1851. He was nicknamed John 'Spanish' Phillip. Life Born ...
(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 (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 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 Sleep ...
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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 Sara ...
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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 (1821–1901) * James Smetham (1821–1889) * Thomas Holroyd (1821–1904) *
Lefevre James Cranstone Lefevre James Cranstone (March 6, 1822 – June 22, 1893) was an English artist known for his watercolor genre-style landscapes and oil paintings. He visited the United States, where many of his works are displayed, and later moved to Australia. ...
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Frederick Goodall Frederick Goodall (17 September 1822 – 29 July 1904) was an English 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 Wel ...
(1822–1904) * George Hardy (1822–1909) * William Simpson (1823–1899) * William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916) *
Martha Darley Mutrie Martha Darley Mutrie (26 August 1824 – 30 December 1885) was a British painter. Her paintings consisted mostly of fruit and flowers. She grew up in Manchester, England, and studied at the Manchester School of Design. Mutrie's works were s ...
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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 ...
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Eleanor Vere Boyle Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) was an artist of the Victorian era whose work consisted mainly of watercolor illustrations in children’s books. These illustrations were strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, being highly detailed and ha ...
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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 (1827–1856) *
Frederick Daniel Hardy Frederick Daniel Hardy (13 February 1827 – 1 April 1911) was an English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony of artists. Early life Frederick Daniel Hardy was born at Windsor in Berkshire, the third of eight children of Georg ...
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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. ...
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John Wharlton Bunney John Wharlton Bunney (20 June 1828 – 23 September 1882) was an English topographical and landscape artist of the nineteenth century. His father was a merchant captain whom Bunney, as a boy, accompanied on several voyages around the world. ...
(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 ...
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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 Brotherhoo ...
(1828–1882) * Anna Blunden (1829–1915) * John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897) *
John Finnie John Bradford Finnie (born 31 December 1956) is a Scottish Greens politician. He was the Green Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region from 2016 up until 2021, having previously sat as a Scottish National P ...
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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 ...
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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 Helen Mabel Trevor (20 December 1831 – 3 April 1900) was an Irish landscape and genre painter. Life Helen Mabel Trevor was born in Lisnagead House, Loughbrickland, County Down, on 20 December 1831. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Hill T ...
(1831–1900) * Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) *
Louise Rayner 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 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 George Henry Boughton (4 December 1833 – 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer. Life and work Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer William Boughton. The fam ...
(1833–1905) *
Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman Hun ...
(1833–1898) *
Benjamin Williams Leader Benjamin Williams Leader (12 March 1831 – 22 March 1923) was an English landscape painter. Life and work Early years and training Leader was born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and third child of eleven children, of ...
(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 Emily Mary Osborn (1828–1925), or Osborne, was an English painter of the Victorian era.Charlotte Yeldham, ''Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France and England'', New York, Garland, 1984. She is known for her pictures of children and her g ...
(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 Dronryp ( nl, Dronrijp) 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 settleme ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 1841 ...
(1841–1893) * Edith Martineau (1842–1909) * Edwin Ellis (1842–1895) * Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922) *
Thomas Bush Hardy Thomas Bush Hardy (1842, Sheffield – 1897, Maida Vale, London) was a British marine painter and watercolourist. Biography Hardy was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire on 3 May 1842. As a young man he travelled in the Netherlands and Italy. In 1 ...
(1842–1897) – marine painter * Clara Montalba (1842–1929) *
Herbert William Weekes Herbert William Weekes (8 May 1841 – 21 November 1914) was a well-known English genre and animal painter of the Victorian Neoclassical period who specialized in portraying animals in humorous, human-like situations. Early life and family We ...
(c. 1842–unknown) *
Louise Jopling Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, previously Romer and later Rowe) (Manchester 16 November 1843 – 19 November 1933) was an English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation. Early life Lou ...
(1843–1933) *
Bernard Walter Evans Bernard Walter Evans (26 December 1843 – 26 February 1922) was a British landscape painter and watercolourist in the Romantic style, working mainly in Birmingham, Wales, London, Cannes and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Because he used a "h ...
(1843–1922) * Isabel Dacre (1844–1933) *
Tristram Ellis Tristram James Ellis (2 July 1844 – 25 July 1922) was an English artist who was known for his paintings of the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Early life Ellis was the son of the mathematician and philologist Alexander John Ellis. He ...
(1844–1922) *
Augustus Edwin Mulready Augustus Edwin Mulready (23 Feb 1844 – 15 March 1904) was an English genre painter whose work often depicted London street scenes with urchins and flower-sellers. Life and work Mulready came from a family of artists. His grandfather, ...
(1844–1904) * Frances C. Fairman (1839–1923) *
Marie Spartali Stillman Marie Stillman (née Spartali) (Greek language, Greek: Μαρία Σπαρτάλη; 10 March 1844 – 6 March 1927) was a British member of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Of the Pre-Raphaelites, she had one of the longe ...
(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 (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 ...
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Helen Allingham Helen Allingham (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 Derbyshire, ...
(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 (1850–1936) * John Collier (1850–1934) *
Edward Robert Hughes Edward Robert Hughes (5 November 1851 – 23 April 1914) was a British painter, who primarily worked in watercolours, but also produced a number of oil paintings. He was influenced by his uncle and artist, Arthur Hughes who was associated ...
(1851–1914) * Laura Alma-Tadema (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 ...
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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 (1854–1929) * George Paice (1854–1925) * Edward Wilkins Waite (1854–1924) *
Sara Page Sara Wells Page (1855–1943) was a British artist, portrait and figurative painter, of the Victorian and Edwardian period. During her lifetime she was widely exhibited at Parisian salons and British galleries, including the Royal Academy of Ar ...
(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 ...
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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 mov ...
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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 painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School. Life Henry was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, later in Macgregor's studio, but learned most ...
(1858–1943) * Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes (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 ...
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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 (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 (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' ...
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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 (1865–1958) *
Milly Childers Emily Maria Eardley Childers (1866–1922), known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century. She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister ...
(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 (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 ...
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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 (1868–1934) * Ursula Wood (1868–1925) * Mary Baylis Barnard (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 (1872–1898) * Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (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 Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1934) was a British portrait painting, portraitist. Life Born in York, he was the son of the James Raine (Chancellor), Reverend James Raine and Ann Jane Keyworth; and the great nephew of William Powell Frith, In ...
(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 (1873–1942) *
Isabel Codrington Isabel Codrington Pyke-Nott, later Isabel Konody then Isabel Mayer (1874-1943), was a British artist. She painted figures in watercolour and oils and also produced miniatures. Biography Codrington was born in Bydown in Devon and in 1889, aged ...
(1874–1943)


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Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (18 September 1875 – 28 February 1970) was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire as Arthur Henry Hammond. Knighton-Hammond was an English artist best known for landscapes, society portraits and industrial paintings. Kn ...
(1875–1970) * Madge Oliver (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 da ...
(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 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 Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967) was a painter and the first director of the Honolulu Museum of Art. He was born November 24, 1877 in Taunton, England, and studied at the Liverpool Art School and the Royal Institute. He immigrated to the Uni ...
(1877–1967) * Walter Ernest Webster (1877–1959) * Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960) *
Eliza Mary Burgess Eliza Mary Burgess (2 March 1878 – 1961) was a British artist, known as a painter and designer. Biography Burgess was born and grew up in the Walthamstow area of London, where her father was a florist and gardener and her mother was a dressma ...
(1878–1961) * May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878–1943) *
Augustus John 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. ...
(1882–1964) * Gladys Kathleen Bell (1882–1965) * Teresa Copnall (1882–1972) * Helen Edwards (1882–1963) *
Richard Howard Penton Richard Howard Penton (known professionally as Howard Penton) (1882–1960) was an English marine and landscape painter. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Richard Pe ...
(1882–1960) * Eleanor Hughes (1882–1952) * Averil Burleigh (1883–1949) * John Currie (artist) (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,'' the literary magazine of the Vorticists. His novels include ''Tarr'' ( ...
(1884–1957) * Louisa Puller (1884–1963) *
Hilary Dulcie Cobbett Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (19 February 1885 – 26 February 1976) was an English watercolour and oil painter. Early life Cobbett was born in Richmond, Surrey, the daughter of William Vines Holt Cobbett, a solicitor, and Kate Cobbett (née Sandil ...
(1885–1976) *
Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a British 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, 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 (1889–1948) * Paul Nash (1889–1946) *
Cedric Morris Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet (11 December 1889 – 8 February 1982) was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea in South Wales, but worked mainly in East Anglia. As an artist he is best known for his portra ...
(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 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 Henry ...
(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 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 Lytton ...
(1893–1932) * Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) *
Cowan Dobson David Cowan Dobson (1894–1980) was a leading Scottish portrait artist. Dobson was born in Bradford to Scottish parents and around 1920 moved to London. Family Dobson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, the second son of the Scottish portrait ...
(1894–1980) * Kaff Gerrard (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 Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, Order of Merit, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract art, abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Background and training Nicholson was ...
(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 (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 (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 ...
( fl. 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 George Lambourn (18 July 1900 – 1977) was a British artist, who although born in London, lived in Cornwall for most of his life. Biography Lambourn was born in Rotherhithe in London and in 1916 joined the Royal Naval Air Service with whom he ...
(1900–1977) * Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979) * John Mansbridge (1901–1981) * Marjorie May Bacon (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 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 w ...
(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 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 printmaking ...
(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 (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, 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 (1906–1999) * Patrick Hall (1906–1992) * Edgar Hubert (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 (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 Mildred Elsie Eldridge known as Elsi Eldridge, (1 August 1909 – 10 March 1991) was a British artist, mural painter and book illustrator. Biography Eldridge was born in Wimbledon in London where her father was pawnbroker who later became a ...
(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 (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 William Gear RA RBSA (2 August 1915 – 27 February 1997) was a Scottish painter, most notable for his abstract compositions. Early life Gear was born in Methil in south-east Fife, Scotland, the son of Janet (1886-1955) and Porteous 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 (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 (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 (artist) Richard William Hamilton CH (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011) was an English painter and collage artist. His 1955 exhibition ''Man, Machine and Motion'' (Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne) and his 1956 collage '' Just what is it that ...
(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. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...
(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 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 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 Gillian Ayres (3 February 1930 – 11 April 2018) was an English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours, which earned her a Turner Prize nomination. Early life and education Gillian Ayres was bo ...
(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 Edward Maurice FitzGerald "Robyn" Denny (3 October 1930 – 20 May 2014) was one of a group of young artists who transformed British art in the late 1950s, leading it into the international mainstream. Reacting against the mainstream St Ives Sch ...
(1930–2014) *
Eva Frankfurther Eva Frankfurther (10 February 1930 – January 1959) was a German-born British artist known for her depictions of the immigrant communities of the East End of London in the 1950s. Biography Frankfurther was born in the Dahlem (Berlin), Dahlem d ...
(1930–1959) born in Germany * Martin Bradley (born 1931) *Ken Messer (1931–2018) *Bridget Riley (born 1931) *Peter Blake (artist), Peter Blake (born 1932) *Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017) *Moira Huntly (born 1932) *Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) *Marc Vaux (born 1932) *Alexander Goudie (1933–2004) *John Hoyland (1934–2011) *Jeremy Moon (artist), Jeremy Moon (1934–1973) *Ivor Davies (artist), Ivor Davies (born 1935) *Ken Kiff (1935–2001) *Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) *Timothy Behrens (1937–2017) *David Hockney (born 1937) *Tess Jaray (born 1937) *Bryan Organ (born 1935) *Margot Perryman (born 1938) *William Tillyer (born 1938) *Mario Dubsky (1939–1985) *John Wonnacott (born 1940) *Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002) *Sheila Mullen (artist), Sheila Mullen (born 1942) *Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015) *Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944) *Claire Dalby (born 1944) *Bruce McLean (born 1944) *Jonathon Coudrille (born 1945) *P. J. Crook (born 1945) *Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945) *David Imms (born 1945) *Sean Scully (born 1945) – born in Dublin, Ireland; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad. *Timothy Hyman (born 1946) *Edward Kelly (painter), Edward Kelly (born 1946) *John Virtue (born 1947) *Howard J. Morgan (1949–2020) *Terance James Bond (born 1946)


Born 1950–1999

*Cherryl Fountain (born 1950) *Roy Petley (born 1951) *Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (1952-2012) *Jeremy Henderson (born 1952) *Deirdre Hyde (born 1953) *Charlotte Verity (born 1954) *Vivien Blackett (born 1955) *Peter Edwards (artist), Peter Edwards (born 1955) *Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955) *Jo Self (born 1956) *Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957) *John O'Carroll (born 1958) *Peter Doig (born 1959) *Claudette Johnson (born 1959) *David Leapman (born 1959) *Ian Davenport (born 1960) *Nick Fudge (born 1960) *Keith Piper (artist), Keith Piper (born 1960) *Sonia Boyce (born 1962) *Gary Hume (born 1962) *Tod Hanson (born 1963) *Guy Denning (born 1965) *Damien Hirst (born 1965) *George Shaw (artist), George Shaw (born 1966) *Chris Ofili (born 1968) *Chantal Joffe (born 1969) *Justin Mortimer (born 1970) *Banksy (born c. 1974) *Tom Palin (born 1974) *Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975) *Idris Khan (born 1978) *Kate Groobey (born 1979) *David Wightman (painter), David Wightman (born 1980)


Unknown year, born 20th century

*Charles Harris (painter), Charles Harris


See also

* British art * English school of painting * List of British artists


External links


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


References

{{European painters British painters, Lists of British people by occupation, Painters Lists of painters by nationality, British