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

Born before 1700

* Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) – German artist and

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

who became

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

in England *

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

(c. 1520 – c. 1590) –

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium ...

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

George Gower George Gower (c.1540–1596) was an English portrait painter who became Serjeant Painter to 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 ...

(1540–1596) – English portrait painter *

Nicholas 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) – English

goldsmith A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, goldsmiths have also made silverware, platters, goblets, decorative and servicea ...

limner A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration. One of the earliest mentions of a limner's work is found in the book ''Methods and Materials of Painting'' by Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865). ...

portrait miniature A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, Watercolor painting, watercolor, or Vitreous enamel, enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, an ...

painter *

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

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

Isaac Oliver Isaac Oliver (c. 1565 – bur. 2 October 1617) or Olivier was an English portrait miniature painter.Baskett, John. ''Paul Mellon's legacy: a passion for British art'' (Yale University Press, 2007) pp. 240-1. Life and work Born in Rouen, he ...

(c. 1565 – 1617) – French-born English

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this ...

miniature painter * Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) –

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

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

ist and

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

who became

in England *

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

(1607–1677) –

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

etcher *

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

(c. 1608 – 1672) – English

miniature A miniature is a small-scale reproduction, or a small version. It may refer to: * Portrait miniature, a miniature portrait painting * Miniature art, miniature painting, engraving and sculpture * Miniature (chess), a masterful chess game or proble ...

painter *

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 Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a considerable repu ...

(1617–1694) – British baroque

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

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

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

(1635–1692) – English baroque painter, born in Danzig * Godfrey Kneller (1646/9–1723) –

in England * Edward Pierce (1630–1695) *

Francis Place Francis Place (3 November 1771 in London – 1 January 1854 in London) was an English social reformer. Early life He was an illegitimate son of Simon Place and Mary Gray. His father was originally a journeyman baker. He then became a Marshal ...

(1647–1728) – English potter and engraver *

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

(1675–1734) – English painter of

historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

subjects *

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

(1665–1745) – English portrait painter *

Peter Monamy Peter Monamy was an English marine painter who lived between 1681 and 1749. Early life and family Peter Monamy was baptised at the church of St Botolph's-without-Aldgate, London, England, on 12 January 1681 (new style). His name seems ...

(1681–1749) – English

marine Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * ...

painter *

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

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

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

Pieter Andreas Rysbrack Pieter Andreas Rijsbrack (1685 or 1690 – 1748) (sometimes Anglicized as Peter Rysbrack) was a Flemish painter of still lifes and landscapes who was active in England in the first half of the 18th century.John Michael Rysbrack Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack, often referred to simply as Michael Rysbrack (24 June 1694 – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor, who spent most of his career in England where h ...

(1694–1770) –

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

working in London *

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 King George I ...

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

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-lik ...

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

satirist This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires. Under Contemporary, 1930-1960 ...

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

and editorial

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

Born 1700–1799

The Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner, National Gallery

Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865) was a Franco-English Victorian painter and portraitist, specializing in literary, historical, and religious subjects. For more than a hundred years, he was confused with his son, Henry Joseph ...

(1778–1865) – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects. *

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

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

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...

* Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter *

James Seymour James Seymour (1702–1752) was an English painter, widely recognized for his equestrian art. Seymour was born in London. His father was an amateur artist and art dealer, whose other business dealings (as a banker, goldsmith, and diamond ...

(c. 1702 – 1752) – English painter especially of

equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: *Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes in ...

art *

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 portraitist at Bath, Somerset, until Thomas Gainsborough arrived in the town. Noted for ...

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

pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those us ...

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

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

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

Arthur Devis Arthur Devis (19 February 1712 – 25 July 1787) was an English artist, half-brother of the painter Anthony Devis (1729–1816), and father of painters Thomas Anthony Devis (1757–1810) and Arthur William Devis (1762–1822). His place in t ...

(c. 1712 – 1787) – English

painter, especially of

conversation piece A conversation piece refers to a group portrait in a domestic or landscape setting depicting persons chatting or otherwise socializing with each other.Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay may refer to: *Allan Ramsay (poet) or Allan Ramsay the Elder (1686–1758), Scottish poet *Allan Ramsay (artist) or Allan Ramsay the Younger (1713–1784), Scottish portrait painter *Allan Ramsay (diplomat) (1937–2022), British diplom ...

(1713–1784) –

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

portrait painter * Richard Wilson (1713–1782) –

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...

landscape painter and one of the founder members of the

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

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

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

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

(1724–1806) –

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English ...

painter especially of horses *

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

(1726–1770) – English painter *

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

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

Paul Sandby Paul Sandby (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Life and work Sandby wa ...

(1730–1809) – English

map A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Althoug ...

-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours *

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

(1733–1807) – English animal painter *

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) – German

neoclassical Neoclassical or neo-classical may refer to: * Neoclassicism or New Classicism, any of a number of movements in the fine arts, literature, theatre, music, language, and architecture beginning in the 17th century ** Neoclassical architecture, an a ...

painter, active mainly in England * George Romney (1734–1802) – English portrait painter *

Joseph Wright Joseph Wright may refer to: *Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), English painter *Joseph Wright (American painter) (1756–1793), American portraitist *Joseph Wright (fl. 1837/1845), whose company, Messrs. Joseph Wright and Sons, became the Metro ...

(1734–1797) – English landscape and portrait painter *

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

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

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

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

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

(1737–1823) –

from London *

Francis Towne Francis Towne (1739 or 1740 – 7 July 1816) was a British watercolour painter of landscapes that range from the English Lake District to Naples and Rome. After a long period of obscurity, his work has been increasingly recognised from t ...

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

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

(1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter * Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) – English artist of French origin *

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

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

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

(1740–1779) – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings *

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) English portrait painter * James Barry (1741–1806) – Irish painter *

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 supernatu ...

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

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

(1742–1821) – English portrait painter,

miniaturist A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

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

(1742–1810) – English painter of

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John Robert Cozens John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) was a British drawing, draftsman and Painting, painter of romantic watercolour Landscape painting, landscapes. Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospheric effects and illusions which had ...

(1752–1797) – English

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

and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes *

Thomas Bewick Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 17538 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating c ...

(1753–1828) – English

wood engraver Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or ''matrix'' of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and pr ...

and

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

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

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

(1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter *

Thomas Rowlandson Thomas Rowlandson (; 13 July 175721 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social an ...

(1756–1827) – English artist and

caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfred Grévin (1827–1892) * ...

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) – English

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

, painter, and

Alexander Nasmyth Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

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

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 ...

(1760–1803) – English portrait painter *

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) – English painter, mostly of portraits *

Charles Fairfield Charles Fairfield (1761? – 1805) was an English painter, best known as a copyist. He died in Brompton, London in 1805. Life Fairfield was described in his obituary in the '' Gentleman's Magazine'' as "a painter of extraordinary merit and knowl ...

(1761?–1805) – English painter, mostly known as a copyist *

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

(1762–1839) – sculptor *

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

(1762–1822) – English painter of

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

s and

portraits A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...

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

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

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

(1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter *

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

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

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

of painters *

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 Vic ...

(1769–1859) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver *

Thomas Phillips Thomas Phillips RA (18 October 177020 April 1845) was a leading English portrait and subject painter. He painted many of the great men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explorers. Life and work Phillips was born at D ...

(1770–1845) – English portrait and subject painter *

Henry James Richter Henry James Richter (1772–1857), artist and philosopher, was born in Middlesex, possibly at 40 Great Newport Street, Soho, on 8 March 1772 and baptised at St Anne's Church, Soho, on 5 April at that same year. Family Henry James was the se ...

(1772–1857) – engraver and painter *

François Hüet Villiers François Hüet Villiers (14 January 1772 – 28 July 1813), born in Paris, was an artist resident in London for most of his career. Life Villiers was born in Paris in 1772, the second son of Jean-Baptiste-Marie Hüet, a French artist, and his wife ...

(1772–1813) – French-born portrait painter, resident in London *

Anne Frances Byrne Anne Frances Byrne (1775–1837) was a British watercolor painter. Her subject material consisted mainly of birds, fruit and flowers painted in a realistic style. Anne came from a family of artists and occasionally butted heads with her contempo ...

(1775–1837) – painter of flowers and still lifes *

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 So ...

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

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

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

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

(1775–1851) – English

Romantic Romantic may refer to: Genres and eras * The Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries ** Romantic music, of that era ** Romantic poetry, of that era ** Romanticism in science, of that e ...

landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker *

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

(1776–1837) – English Romantic painter *

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

(1776–1827) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver *

Maria Spilsbury Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820) was a British artist known for her religious paintings and portraiture. Biography Spilsbury was born at 68 Great Ormond Street, London, in 1776. She had a twin brother but he died at their birth. Her parents were Re ...

(1776–1820) – painter of religious subjects *

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

(1777–1866) – watercolour painter *

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) – English watercolour painter and

astrologer Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Di ...

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

(1779–1844) – English landscape painter *

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

(1780–1845) – English painter *

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

(1781–1841) – watercolour painter *

John Sell Cotman John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782 – 24 July 1842) was an English marine 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, ...

(1782–1842) – artist of the Norwich school, mainly in watercolour *

Frederick Nash (painter) Frederick Nash (1782–1856) was an English painter and draughtsman. Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. He initially studied architectural drawing under Thomas Malton, then later enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1801 and 1809 Nas ...

(1782–1856) – architectural and landscape painter * David Cox (1783–1859) – English landscape painter *

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

(1783–1852) – English watercolour painter *

Peter De Wint Peter De Wint (21 January 1784 – 30 January 1849) was an English landscape painter. A number of his pictures are in the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The Collection, Lincoln. He died in London. Biography De Wint was ...

(1784–1849) – English

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

painter *

John Romney John Romney (June 1785 – 1 February 1863) was an English artist in printmaking and watercolour who lived and worked in London and Chester. Much of his work consisted of reproductions of the work of other artists, but he produced some origin ...

(1785–1863) – mainly

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

and watercolour *

David Wilkie David Wilkie may refer to: * David Wilkie (artist) (1785–1841), Scottish painter * David Wilkie (surgeon) (1882–1938), British surgeon, scientist and philanthropist * David Wilkie (footballer) (1914–2011), Australian rules footballer * David W ...

(1785–1841) –

painter *

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

(1786–1863) – Irish

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

painter living in London *

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

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

Patrick Nasmyth Patrick Nasmyth, (7 January 1787 – 17 August 1831), was a Scottish landscape painter. He was the eldest son of the artist Alexander Nasmyth. Life Nasmyth was one of the eleven children of Barbara and Alexander Nasmyth of Edinburgh. His si ...

(1787–1831) – Scottish landscape painter * John Martin (1789–1854) – English painter * William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) – English watercolor painter *

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

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

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

(1792–1882) – English landscape painter *

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

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

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

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

(died 1823) – stained glass painter

Born 1800–1899

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

(1802–1828) – English

landscape painter *

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

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

stag Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the reind ...

s *

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

(1803–1874) – English watercolor painter *

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) – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals *

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

(1804–1891) – Scottish sculptor *

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

(1804–1876) –

Orientalist Orientalist may refer to: *A scholar of Oriental studies *A person or thing relating to the Western intellectual or artistic paradigm known as Orientalism *''The Orientalist'', a biography of author Lev Nussimbaum by Tom Reiss {{disambiguation ...

English painter *

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

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

William Dyce William Dyce (; 19 September 1806 in Aberdeen14 February 1864) was a Scottish painter, who played a part in the formation of public art education in the United Kingdom, and the South Kensington Schools system. Dyce was associated with the Pr ...

(1806–1864) – Scottish artist * Arthur Elliot (1809–1892) – British watercolourist * Thomas Mogford (1809–1868) – English portrait painter and landscape painter *

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

(1811–1882) – English painter *

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

(1813–1876) – English painter *

Lucette Barker Lucette Elizabeth Barker (baptized 29 July 1816, died 21 January 1905) was a British painter of portraits, genre and animal subjects. Biography Barker was born in Thirkleby in Yorkshire to Thomas Barker, a vicar, and his wife Jane Flower. Lucett ...

(1816–1905) – English painter *

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

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

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. ...

, the Lake District and the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lot ...

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

(1817–1896) – English

Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edward ...

painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects *

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

(1817–1886) – English painter especially of

fairies A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, English, and French folklore), a form of spirit, of ...

and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic

scenes *

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

(1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and

botanical artist Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings. They must be scientifically accurate but often also have an artistic component and may be printed with a botanical ...

Alfred Tippinge Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Tippinge, KCH (2 May 1817 – 2 August 1898) was a British Army officer. As a Grenadier Guard he "served with distinction" in four fields of the Crimean War of 1854: at Alma, Balaclava, Sebastapol and Inkerman. At ...

(1817–1898) – British

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who sent home paintings of the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included t ...

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) – English

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

painter and sculptor of the

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and real ...

movement *

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

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

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

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

and

Charlotte Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Meckl ...

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

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

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 ...

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

narratives *

George Gammon Adams George Gammon Adams (1821–1898; sometimes spelled George Gamon Adams or George Gannon Adams) was an English portrait sculptor and medallist,

(1821–1898)- English sculptor and medallist *

Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often William Hogarth, Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his mos ...

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

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

(1822–1893) – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America *

Frances Emilia Crofton Frances Emilia Crofton née Dunn (1822 – 23 October 1910), known professionally as Mrs William Crofton, was an Anglo-Irish landscape painter of the picturesque style who flourished in the mid-19th century. In 1854 she published ''Eight Views ...

(1822–1910) – Anglo-Irish artist *

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 ...

(snr) (1822–1904) – English artist specialising in oriental scenes *

Frederick William Keyl Frederick William Keyl (originally Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl; 17 September 1823 – 5 December 1871), born in Germany, was an animal painter in England; he received many commissions for paintings from Queen Victoria. Life Keyl was born in Frankfur ...

(1823–1871) – German-born British painter of animals * Charles Davidson (1824–1902) – English watercolour painter *

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

(1824–1903) – English painter and academic *

Abraham Solomon Abraham Solomon (London 7 May 1823 – 19 December 1862 Biarritz) was a British painter. Born as the second son of Meyer Solomon, a Leghorn hat manufacturer, by his wife Catherine, in Sandys Street, Bishopsgate in east London. His father ...

(1824–1862) – English painter *

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

(1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet *

Barbara Bodichon Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. She published her influential ''Brief Summary ...

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

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

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

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

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

(1828–1907) – English watercolour artist and illustrator *

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

(1828–1882) – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator *

Anna Blunden Anna Blunden, later Anna Blunden Martino, (22 December 1829 – 1915) was an English Pre-Raphaelite artist. She was a member of John Ruskin's circle and was one of a number of women artists working and exhibiting during the Victorian age. Her ...

(1829–1915) – English painter *

James Docharty James Docharty (1829–1878) was a Scottish landscape painter. He was born at Bonhill, near Dumbarton, in 1829. He first worked for his father as a designer of calico fabric.Edwin Long Edwin Longsden Long (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was a British genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. Life and works Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset), and was edu ...

(1829–1890) – English

orientalist Orientalist may refer to: *A scholar of Oriental studies *A person or thing relating to the Western intellectual or artistic paradigm known as Orientalism *''The Orientalist'', a biography of author Lev Nussimbaum by Tom Reiss {{disambiguation ...

painter, depicting

Biblical The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...

and Middle Eastern subjects *

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

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

John Henry Dell John Henry Dell (1830–1888) was an English landscape artist and illustrator. He was a regular exhibitor at the British Institution and the Royal academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on ...

(1830–1888) – English painter and illustrator *

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

(1830–1896) – English painter *

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

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

biblical The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...

and

classical Classical may refer to: European antiquity *Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea *Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and ...

subject matter *

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

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

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

(1830–1890) – English naturalist and flower painter *

Walter Severn Walter Severn (12 October 1830 – 22 September 1904), professionally a civil servant, was known as an English water-colour artist. Life Severn was born in Frascati, near Rome, the eldest son of Joseph Severn and his wife Elizabeth, daughter o ...

(1830–1904) – English watercolourist *

John William Bailey John William Bailey (27 April 1831 – 20 May 1914) was a British miniature painter. He was born in London the son of a tanner and was educated at Stratford-on-Avon. Bailey received artistic training under William Essex Sir William ...

(1831–1914) –

painter *

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 ...

(1831–1923) – English painter *

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

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

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

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

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

(1832–1900) – English painter *

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman ...

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

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was 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) – English artist, writer, and socialist *

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

(1834–1903) – American-born,

-based painter and etcher *

Wyke Bayliss Sir Wyke Bayliss (21 October 1835 – 5 April 1906) was a British painter, author, and poet. He almost exclusively painted interiors of British and European churches and cathedrals, and was known in the late Victorian era as an academic author ...

(1835–1906) – English painter of churches and cathedrals *

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

(1835–1910) – Scottish landscape painter *

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

(1836–1875) – British painter (

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and

s) and illustrator *

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

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

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

(1836–1912) –

classical-subject painter *

James Tissot Jacques Joseph Tissot (; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), anglicized as James Tissot (), was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of fashionable, modern scenes and society life in Paris before moving to London in 1871 ...

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

subjects *

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

(1840–1905) – English

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

painter * Frederick Walker (1840–1875) – English

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

painter and illustrator in watercolours and oils * Albert Moore (1841–1893) – English painter especially of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world *

Alexander Rossi Alexander Michael Rossi (born September 25, 1991) is an American professional racing driver and podcast host. He currently competes full-time in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet for Arrow McLaren SP. Rossi is best known for winnin ...

(1841–1916) – British artist specializing in

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

Thomas Bush Hardy 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 18 ...

(1842–1897) – British marine painter and watercolourist *

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

(1842–1919), English sculptor * Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894) – English painter and watercolourist *

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

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

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

(1845–1888) – English painter * Walter Greaves (1846–1930) – English painter * James Campbell Noble (1846–1913) – Scottish landscape, seascape and portrait painter * John Eyre (1847–1927) – English genre painter, illustrator, painted and designed pottery *

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

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

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) – English

painter especially of female characters from

mythology Myth is a folklore genre consisting of Narrative, narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or Origin myth, origin myths. Since "myth" is widely used to imply that a story is not Objectivity (philosophy), ...

and literature *

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

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

style *

Robert Weir Allan Robert Weir Allan (1851–1942) was a Scottish-born painter known mainly for his depiction of landscape and marine subjects. He was born in Glasgow into a family that encouraged and valued his natural artistic ability. He exhibited at the Glasgow ...

(1851–1942) – Glasgow born painter of landscape and marine subjects *

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

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

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

(1851–1914) – English painter in a

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

and

Aestheticism Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century which privileged the aesthetic value of literature, music and the arts over their socio-political functions. According to Aestheticism, art should be p ...

style *

Edmund 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 a ...

(1853–1922) – English painter in

and

styles *

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

(1853–1928) – English

painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes *

Maude Goodman Maude Goodman (1853–1938) was a British painter. Biography Maude Goodman was born in Manchester, England, to Jewish parents, in 1853. She was called Matilda at birth. Due to the death of her birth mother, she was later raised and encouraged i ...

(1853–1938) (a.k.a. Matilda Scanes) – English

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

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

(1854–1945) – English painter associated with the

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

of artists *

Walter Dendy Sadler Walter Dendy Sadler (12 May 1854 – 13 November 1923) was an English painter. Walter Dendy Sadler was born in Dorking, a market town in Surrey in southern England, and brought up in Horsham, West Sussex, England. At age 16 he decided to b ...

(1854–1923) – English painter *

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 househo ...

(1855–1942) –

Cornish Cornish is the adjective and demonym associated with Cornwall, the most southwesterly part of the United Kingdom. It may refer to: * Cornish language, a Brittonic Southwestern Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Cornwa ...

fisherman and artist * David Winder (1855–1933) – Bolton, Lancashire-born British artist; oil and watercolour *

James Pittendreigh MacGillivray James Pittendrigh MacGillivray (1856 – 29 April 1938) was a Scottish sculptor. He was also a keen artist, musician and poet. He was born in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, the son of a sculptor, and studied under William Brodie and John Mossman ...

(1856–1938) – Scottish sculptor *

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

(1856–1921) – English landscape artist *

John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and mor ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1858–1919) – English classicist painter *

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

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

(1860–1942) – English

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passag ...

painter *

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

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

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

(1860–1942) – English artist *

Harriet Isabel Adams Isabel Adams (bapt. 13 October 1853 – 1937), known as H. Isabel Adams, was an English artist, scientific illustrator, and author. She is most known for her botanical drawings, bookplates, and published volume of books, ''Wild Flowers of the Brit ...

(1863–1952) – British artist and illustrator *

Lily Delissa Joseph Lily Delissa Joseph, ''née'' Solomon, (24 June 1863 – 27 July 1940) was a British artist and social campaigner active in the English suffrage movement. Biography Joseph was born in Bermondsey in London into a wealthy, cultured Jewi ...

(1863–1940) – English painter *

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

(1864–1898) – church decorative artist *

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

(1864–1950) – Scottish painter *

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

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

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

(1864–1930) – English painter *

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

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

Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...

Robert Bevan Robert Polhill Bevan (5 August 1865 – 8 July 1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group. Early life He was born in Brunsw ...

(1865–1925) – British painter *

H. Gustave Hiller Henry Gustave Hiller (1865–1946) was an artist based in Liverpool, England. He studied at the Manchester School of Art and is mainly known as a designer of painted gesso reliefs and stained glass. Works Stained glass *Accrington Librar ...

(1865–1946) – mainly of stained glass *

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 developm ...

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

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

(1867–1940) – English sculptor *

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

(1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of

miniature portraits ''Miniature Portraits'' is the second studio album by Five Style, released on August 24, 1999, by Sub Pop. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Miniature Portraits'' liner notes. ;Five Style *Leroy Bach – bass guitar, guita ...

painted in watercolour on ivory *

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

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

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

(1868–1953) – British painter *

Charles Murray Padday Charles Murray Padday, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, RI, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, ROI (1868–1954) was a British artist and illustrator. He was particularly known for his sea paintings. Early life Paddy was born in Lond ...

(1868–1954) – English painter * Ursula Wood (1868–1925) – English painter *

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

(1869–1955) – English painter *

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

(1869–1958) – English equine artist *

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

(1870–1926) – landscape painter *

William Ratcliffe William Ratcliffe VC MM (18 January 1884 – 26 March 1963) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...

(1870–1955) – English artist *

Phelan Gibb Harry Phelan Gibb (a.k.a. William Phelan "Harry" Gibb) (1870–1948) was a British artist influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne, who exhibited in London, Paris and New York.Buckman, David 998 Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945, Art D ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) – English artist and illustrator *

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

(1873–1971) – English painter *

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

(1873–1938) – English sculptor *

Isabel Codrington Isabel Codrington Pyke-Nott, later Isabel Konody then Isabel Mayer (1874-1943), was a British artist. She painted figures in watercolour and oils and also produced miniatures. Biography Codrington was born in Bydown in Devon and in 1889, aged ...

(1874–1943) – English painter *

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

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

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

school of painting *

Hilda May Gordon Hilda May Gordon (20 September 1874 – 21 November 1972) was a widely travelled British artist, known for her watercolour paintings of landscapes and figures. Biography Gordon grew up on the Isle of Wight to Scottish parents who had previously ...

(1874–1972) – British watercolourist *

Frank O. Salisbury Francis Owen Salisbury (18 December 1874 – 31 August 1962) was an English artist who specialised in portraits, large canvases of historical and ceremonial events, stained glass and book illustration. In his heyday he made a fortune on both si ...

(1874–1962) – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works *

Dorothea Sharp Dorothea Sharp (10 January 1873 – 17 December 1955) was a British artist best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play. Life and career Sharp was born in Dartford, Kent, the eldest of five children of Jame ...

(1874–1955) – British landscape painter *

Eleanor Best Eleanor Best (1875-1957) was a British oil painter known for her portrait and figure paintings. Biography Best was born in Amport in Hampshire and studied at the Slade School of Art in London during 1909. She continued to live in London throug ...

(1875–1957) – portrait and figure painter * Evelyn Cheston (1875–1929) – English landscape painter *

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

(1875–1964) – English painter and etcher *

Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (18 September 1875 – 28 February 1970) was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire as Arthur Henry Hammond. Knighton-Hammond was an English artist best known for landscapes, society portraits and industrial paintings. Knig ...

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

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

(1875–1922) – English landscape painter *

Margaret Fisher Prout Millicent Margaret Fisher Prout (31 March 1875– 9 December 1963) was a British artist who helped improve perceptions of modern art in the UK. Biography Prout was born in Church Street, Chelsea, on 31 March 1875, the only daughter of the paint ...

(1875–1963) – English painter * Walter Dexter (1876–1958) – English oil and watercolour artist, particularly of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nort ...

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

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

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

Gwen John Gwendolen 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) –

artist *

Horace Tuck Horace Tuck (1876–1951) was a prolific Norfolk artist and vice-principal of Norwich School of Art. Biography Mainly a painter of oil and watercolour landscapes of his native Norfolk in England, Horace Tuck also travelled to France (particula ...

(1876–1951) –

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

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

(1877–1970) – British artist *

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

(1877–1958) – English artist * Donald Maxwell (1877–1936) – English illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours *

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, ...

(1877–1960) – English sculptor and painter * Denis Eden (1878–1949) – painter and illustrator *

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

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

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

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

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

(1878–1961) –

painter, draughtsman, and etcher *

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

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

equine Equinae is a subfamily of the family Equidae, which have lived worldwide (except Indonesia and Australia) from the Hemingfordian stage of the Early Miocene (16 million years ago) onwards. They are thought to be a monophyletic grouping.B. J. Mac ...

subject matter *

Ada Hill Walker Ada Hill Walker (1879-10 November 1955) was a British scientific illustrator, artist and flower painter based in St Andrews in Scotland who provided illustrations for the scientific publications of William M'Intosh (1838-1931). She often signe ...

(1879–1955) – scientific illustrator and artist *

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

(1879–1961) – Scottish sculptor *

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jacob Epstein Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 21 August 1959) was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produc ...

(1880–1959) – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture *

Elsie Henderson Elsie Marian Henderson, later Baroness de Coudenhove, (28 May 1880 – 1967) was a British painter and sculptor notable for her animal paintings. Biography Henderson was born in Eastbourne in Sussex and with the encouragement of her mother, a ...

(1880–1967) – English painter and sculptor *

Harry Morley Harry Morley (5 April 1881 – 18 September 1943) was a British painter, etcher and engraver known for his classical and mythological compositions. Early life Morley was born in Leicester where he studied at the Alderman Newton's School and ...

(1881–1943) – English painter *

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

(1882–1940) – British sculptor,

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

, stonecutter and

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

(1882–1957) – English painter and author *

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

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

Victoria Monkhouse Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychell ...

(1883–1970) – English painter * Arthur Watts (1883–1935) – illustrator *

Elinor Proby Adams Elinor Proby Adams (18 October 1885 – 18 December 1945) was a British oil painter, book illustrator and mural painter. Biography Adams was born at Sudbury in Suffolk. Her parents, who had married in 1884, were Clara Elizabeth, née Bradley, ...

(1885–1945) – English painter *

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 i ...

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

Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strac ...

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

(1885–1957) – English

wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or ''matrix'' of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and pr ...

artist who co-founded the

Society of Wood Engravers The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) is a UK-based artists’ exhibiting society, formed in 1920, one of its founder-members being Eric Gill. It was originally restricted to artist-engravers printing with oil-based inks in a press, distinct from ...

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

(1885–1948) – English artist *

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

(1886–1971) – English sculptor *

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

(1886–1911) – English painter *

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

(1886–1956) – English artist and

occultist The occult, in the broadest sense, is a category of esoteric supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving otherworldly agency, such as magic and mysticism ...

L. S. 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 vicinity ...

(1887–1976) – English artist *

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 age ...

(1887–1950) – English artist and theatre designer *

Arthur James F. Bond Arthur James F. Bond, RSMA (29 April 1888 – 24 March 1958) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolour and etching. Life and work Bond was born in 1888 in Devonport, Devon, England. His father, Richard Bond was the vicar of S ...

(1888–1958) – English painter of maritime subjects *

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

(1888–1929) – English artist *

David Dougal Williams David Dougall Williams FRSA (June 1888 – 27 September 1944) was a Cheshire-born artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Dundee. Early years David Dougall Williams was born in 1888 in Liscard, in Cheshire, the third son of four to Ba ...

(June 1888–28 September 1944) – British artist and art teacher *

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

(1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter *

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

(1888–1970) – English painter *

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

(1889–1958) – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural history * Paul Nash (1889–1946) – English war artist *

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

(1889–1946) – English painter and

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

Ruth Simpson Ruth Simpson may refer to: * Ruth Simpson (activist) (1926–2008), author and founder of the United States' first lesbian community center * Ruth Simpson (artist) (1889–1964), British artist * Ruth DeEtte Simpson Ruth DeEtte Simpson (May 6, 19 ...

(1889–1964) – English portrait painter *

Edward Wadsworth Edward Alexander Wadsworth (29 October 1889 – 21 June 1949) was an English artist, closely associated with modernist Vorticism movement. He painted coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life in tempera medium and works printed usi ...

(1889–1949) – English artist *

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

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

Whitechapel Boys The name "Whitechapel Boys" identifies a loosely-knit group of Anglo- Jewish writers and artists of the early 20th century. It is named after Whitechapel, which contained one of London's main Jewish settlements and from which many of its member ...

Charles Cundall Charles Ernest Cundall, , (6 September 1890 – 4 November 1971), was an English painter of topographical subjects and townscapes, best known for his large panoramic canvases. Early life Cundall was born in Stretford, Lancashire. Afte ...

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

Nina Hamnett Nina Hamnett (14 February 1890 – 16 December 1956) was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' chanteys, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia. Early life Hamnett was born in Shirley House, Picton Road in the small c ...

(1890–1956) –

artist and writer *

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

(1890–1972) – English artist *

Edmond Xavier Kapp Edmond Xavier Kapp (5 November 1890 – 29 October 1978) was a British portrait painter, draughtsman and caricaturist who during his career depicted many of the most famous politicians, artists and musicians of the time. Life and work Kapp ...

(1890–1978) – English artist *

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

(1890–1967) – Scottish painter *

Olive Mudie-Cooke Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890-11 September 1925) was a British artist who is best known for the paintings she created during the First World War. Mudie-Cooke served as an ambulance driver in both France and Italy during the conflict and these experie ...

(1890–1925) – English painter *

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

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

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

(1891–1915) – French sculptor and

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

Stanley Spencer Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE 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 sma ...

(1891–1959) – English painter *

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

(1891–1966) – English portrait painter *

Elsa Fraenkel Elsa Fraenkel née Rothschild (1892–1975) was a German–born British sculptor raised in Heidelberg, Germany. Education and Marriage Elsa Fraenkel's interest in art began when she was a young girl. She received the support of her family in t ...

(1892–1975) – German born British sculptor *

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

(1892–1940) – English painter *

Gilbert Spencer Gilbert Spencer (4 August 1892 – 14 January 1979) was a British painter of landscapes, portraits, figure compositions and mural decorations. He worked in oils and watercolour. He was the younger brother of the painter Stanley Spencer. ...

(1892–1978) – British painter *

Harold Sandys Williamson Harold Sandys Williamson (29 August 1892 – 6 March 1978) was a British painter, poster designer and teacher. Williamson fought on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front in World War One and also worked as a war artist, both later in t ...

(1892–1978) – British painter * John Armstrong (1893–1973) – British artist * John Nash (1893–1977) – English painter, illustrator, and engraver *

Winifred Nicholson ''From Bedroom Window, Bankshead'', date unknown, private collection. Typical of Nicholson's impressionist work, combining still life with landscape. Rosa Winifred Nicholson (née Roberts; 21 December 1893 – 5 March 1981) was a British p ...

(1893–1981) – English painter *

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

(1893–1968) – English painter and etcher *

Leonard Squirrell Leonard Russell Squirrell (30 October 1893 – 10 July 1979) was an English artist. He produced watercolours and etchings, and his work included images for commercial companies. Life Squirrell was born in Ipswich, son of Frank Squirrell, a carp ...

(1893–1979) – English watercolourist and etcher *

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

(1893–1962) – British artist *

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

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

s *

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

(1894–1984) – British artist *

Alethea Garstin Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) was a Cornish people, Cornish artist and illustrator who exhibited paintings regularly at London's Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy from an early age. Life and work Garstin was born in Penzance, Cornwall on 1 J ...

(1894–1978) – Cornish painter *

Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Background and training Nicholson was born on 10 April 1894 in Den ...

(1894–1982) – English

abstract painter Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19t ...

Dora Clarke Dora Thacher Clarke, later Dora Middleton, (1895–1989) was a British sculptor and wood carver who also wrote about, and promoted African art. Biography Clarke was born in Harrow in Middlesex. Her father, Joseph Thacher Clarke was an Ameri ...

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

artist and British

modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

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

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

(1896–1997) – British artist *

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

(1896–1994) – British artist *

Harry Barr Harry Barr (1896-1987) was a painter. He produced a large body of work, the majority in watercolour. Biography Barr was born in London. He studied at the Westminster School of Art where he was taught by the artist Walter Sickert and earned h ...

(1896-1987) – English painter *

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

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

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

(1898–1986) – English artist and sculptor *

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

(1899–1984) – English artist *

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

(1899–1947) – English painter

Born 1900–1949

Joseph Mellor Hanson Joseph Mellor Hanson (1900-1963) was a British-born modernist painter who worked primarily in figure painting, with an abstract approach. His work can be placed in the tradition of geometric abstraction. Education Hanson was born on the family ...

(1900–1963) *

Ursula Edgcumbe Ursula Ulalia Edgcumbe (1900 – 8 February 1985) was a British sculptor and painter. As a sculptor she worked in stone, wood and bronze while, after switching to painting, many of her works depicted birds and groups of figures. Biography Edgc ...

(1900–1985) *

Barbara Greg Barbara Greg (30 April 1900 – 1983) was a British artist who illustrated a number of books. Biography Greg was born in Styal in Cheshire and was educated at Bedales School. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London between 1919 and ...

(1900–1983) *

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) *

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

(1900–1984) *

Harold Tamblyn-Watts Harold William Tamblyn Watts (5 May 1900 – 1999) was a British wildlife and comic strip artist who contributed to ''TV Comic'', ''Jack and Jill (comics), Jack and Jill'', ''TV Playland'' and various annuals, including ''Eagle (British comics ...

(1900–1999) *

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

(1901–1983) *

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) *

Ancell Stronach Ancell Stronach (1901-1981) was a Scottish artist born in Dundee. Stronach was a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, elected in June 1934. He was winner of the Royal Scottish Academy ‘Guthrie Award’ in April 1927. Stronach was initiall ...

(1901–1981) – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art *

Fred Whicker Fred may refer to: People * Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Mononym * Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French * Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico Rodr ...

(1901–1966) * Christopher Wood (1901–1930) *

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

(1902–1958) * Jean Clark (1902–1999) *

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) *

Aileen Eagleton Aileen Eagleton (5 February 1902 – 1984) was a British painter and wood engraver. Biography Eagleton was born in Bexley in Kent and studied art in London under Louis Thomson. She was a member of the Society of Graphic Art and exhibited on a ...

(1902–1984) *

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

(1902–1975) *

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

(1902–1971) *

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

(1903–1975) *

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

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

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

(1903–1942) *

Richard Eurich Richard Ernst Eurich, OBE, RA (14 March 1903 – 6 June 1992) was an English painter who worked as a war artist to the Admiralty in the Second World War and was also known for his panoramic seascapes and narrative paintings. These were ...

(1903–1992) *

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

(1903–1971) *

Albert Houthuesen __NOTOC__ Albertus Antonius Johannes Houthuesen (; 3 October 1903 – 20 October 1979), known as Albert Houthuesen ( ), was a Dutch-born British artist. Life Early life and training Albert Houthuesen was born in the Oude Pijp neighbourhood ...

(1903–1979) *

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

(1904–1995) *

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

(1904–1993) *

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 in London, her father being the poet a ...

(1904–1979) *

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

(1904–1958) *

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

(1904–1984) *

Griselda Allan Griselda Norma Allan (22 November 1905 – 23 August 1987) was an English artist, known for her flower paintings. Biography Allan was born in Sunderland in the north-east of England, into one of the city's then prosperous shipbuilding families. ...

(1905–1987) * Reg Bunn (1905–1971) *

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

(1905–1976) *

Kathleen Guthrie Kathleen Guthrie (née Maltby) (26 February 1905 – 7 September 1981) was a British artist who exhibited with the London Group and at the Royal Academy and also had several solo exhibitions. During a long career Guthrie painted in oils and wat ...

(1905–1981) *

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) *

Morris Kestelman Morris Kestelman (5 October 1905 – 15 June 1998) was a British artist and teacher. Kestelman was a full-time art teacher and only began exhibiting on a regular basis towards the end of his life and is now best known for the paintings of worki ...

(1905–1998) *

Kenneth Martin Kenneth or Ken Martin may refer to: * Kenneth Martin (English painter), English painter and sculptor * Ken Martin (Australian sculptor) * Kenneth Martin (judge), Australian judge * Kenneth Martin (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer * Ken Martin (a ...

(1905–1984) *

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

(1905–1994) *

Vernon Ward Vernon Beauvoir Ward (1905–1985) was a 20th-century English painter and commercial artist noted for his works of flowers, birds and Edwardian subjects and who lived for most of his life in Hampstead in London. Early life and education He ...

(1905–1985) *

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

(1905–1944) *

Kathleen Allen Kathleen Saywell Allen (1906–1983) was a British painter, muralist, designer and art teacher. Allen is known for her urban landscapes and, in particular, scenes depicting post-war rebuilding in London. Biography Allen was born in the Chiswick ...

(1906–1983) *

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

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

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

(1906–1988) *

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

(1906–1985) *

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

(1906–1970) *

Reginald Ben Davis Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998) was a British wildlife artist who contributed many painted pages to Look and Learn and Treasure magazines. Davis also drew comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in in ...

(1907–1998) *

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

(1907–2005) *

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

(1907–1998) – Scottish landscape painter * Brenda Landon, later

Brenda Pye Brenda Pye (29 November 1907 – 26 April 2005), also known as Brenda Landon or Brenda Capron, was an English portrait painter and landscape artist. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, t ...

(1907–2005) * Claude Rogers (1907–1979) *

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

(1908–1987) *

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

(1908–1989) *

Norman Hepple Robert Norman Hepple (18 May 1908 – 3 January 1994) was an English portrait painter, engraver and sculptor, best known for his portraits of the British royal family. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1948 ...

(1908–1994) *

Victor Pasmore Edwin John Victor Pasmore, CH, CBE (3 December 190823 January 1998) was a British artist. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s. Early life Pasmore was born in Chelsham, Surrey, on 3 December 1908. ...

(1908–1998) *

Stella Schmolle Stella Schmolle, (1908-5 March 1975) was a British painter, known for the paintings she produced while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II and for her post-war portrait paintings. Early life Schmolle was born in B ...

(1908–1975) *

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

(1908–1997) *

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), 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) – born in Ireland *

Dorothea Braby Dorothea Braby (17 October 1909 – 1987) was a British artist. Although she had a long career as a freelance designer producing work for several well-known companies, Braby is best known for the book illustrations she created, particularly thos ...

(1909–1987) * Thomas Carr (1909–1999) *

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

(1909–1998) *

Paul Lucien Dessau Paul Lucien Dessau, (15 September 1909 – 3 September 1999), was a British artist best known for the paintings he produced during the Second World War whilst serving as a fireman in London. Biography Early life Paul Dessau was born in London, ...

(1909–1999) * Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976) *

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

(1909–1995) – ivory sculptor * Leslie Hurry (1909–1978) * Eric Taylor (1909–1999) *

Geoffrey Tibble Geoffrey Arthur Tibble (27 February 1909''1939 England and Wales Register'' – 15 December 1952) was an English artist prominent in the Objective Abstraction movement. Early life and studies Tibble was born in 1909 in Reading, Berkshire, an ...

(1909–1952) *

Isabel Alexander Isabel Alexander (1910-1996) was a British artist and illustrator whose work encompassed drawing, water colour, oils, lithography, lino-printing and three-dimensional work, and whose output ranged from socially-engaged documentation of the lives ...

(1910–1996) *

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

(1910–1989) *

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

(1910–1987) *

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

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

Phyllis Bray Phyllis Bray (30 August 1911 – 1991) was a British artist and illustrator known for involvement in the East London Group of artists, for the murals she produced and for illustrating children's books. During her career she also exhibited at ...

(1911–1991) *

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

(1911–1994) *

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

(1911–1958) *

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

(1911–1975) *

Nicolette Macnamara Nicolette Macnamara (later Devas then Shephard, 1 February 1911 – 10 May 1987), was a British artist and author who was active in the work of PEN International. Biography Macnamara was the eldest of the four children born to Francis Macnama ...

(1911–1987) *

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) *

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

(1912–1986) *

Erlund Hudson Eleanor Hudson, known professionally as Erlund Hudson, (18 February 1912 – 9 March 2011), was a British artist. Hudson was a watercolourist, etcher and designer and is notable for her depictions of women at work during the Second World War ...

(1912–2011) *

Georgina Hunt Georgina Hunt (15 June 1922 – 16 April 2012) was an English abstract painter and artist. Biography Hunt was born in Reading, Berkshire, one of seven children to a local builder. She attended a local convent school where, among other achieveme ...

(1912–2012) *

Keith Vaughan John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977), was a British painter. Biography Born at Selsey in West Sussex, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the World War II, when as an intending ...

(1912–1977) *

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

(1913–1981) *

Raymond Teague Cowern Raymond Teague Cowern (12 July 1913 – 1986) was a British painter and illustrator who was an accomplished draughtsman and was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1968. Biography Cowern was born and educated in Birmingham. He atten ...

(1913–1986) *

Joan Hutt Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *: Joan of Arc, a French military heroine *Joan (surname) Weather events * Tropical Storm Joan (disambiguation), multip ...

(1913–1985) *

Leonard Rosoman Leonard Rosoman (27 October 1913 – 21 February 2012) was a British artist. Early life Rosoman was born in London and educated at the Deacon's school, Peterborough, and then at the King Edward VII school of art in Newcastle upon Tyne, under ...

(1913–2012) *

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

(1914–2003) *

Harold Hitchcock Harold Hitchcock (23 May 1914 – 8 August 2009), born Raymond Hitchcock,Obituary, ''Guardian'', 16 August 2009 was an English visionary landscape artist. Biography Born in Camden Town, London into a family of artists (descended from the anima ...

(1914–2009) *

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

(1914–2002) *

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

(1914–1991) *

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

(1914–2000) – sculptor *

Doris Blair Doris Violet Blair, later Doris Bourguignon (born 1915) was a British 20th century artist who worked in a range of media. She is possibly best known for her depictions of life in Northern Ireland during World War II. Biography Blair was born ...

(born 1915) *

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

(1915-2012) *

Dennis Flanders Dennis Flanders RBA RWS (2 July 1915 – 13 August 1994) was a British artist and draughtsman who specialized in pen and ink drawings, often of English landscapes and buildings. He is notable for his meticulous depictions of the impact of aeri ...

(1915–1994) *

Wendy F. Walsh Wendy Felicité Walsh (9 April 1915 – 3 March 2014) was an artist born in Cumbria who lived and worked in Ireland and was a prolific botanical illustrator. Early and personal life She was born Wendy Felicité Storey in Bowness-on-Windermer ...

(1915–2014) – illustrator and botanical artist *

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

(1915–1983) *

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

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

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

(1916–2016) – painter *

James Lawrence Isherwood James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989) was an English artist, born in Wigan, Lancashire. He often painted subject and images (landscapes, seascapes, and portraits) from the Wigan area in a style that became known as 'Wigan style'. His style has ...

(1917–1989) *

John Kashdan John Erhart Kashdan (12 February 1917 – 22 February 2001) was an English painter, printmaker and teacher of Russian Jewish descent. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and later exhibited in London and America before withdrawing from exhibi ...

(1917–2001) *

Anthony Robert Klitz Anthony (Tony) Robert Klitz (3 September 1917 – 19 September 2000) was an artist who specialized in cityscapes, notably London. He was born in Southport, attended Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and studied art at the Cheltenham Art ...

(1917–2000) * John Minton (1917–1957) *

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

(1917–2000) *

Estella Campavias Estella Campavias (1918–1990) was a British sculptor and ceramicist. She is known for glazed stoneware, as on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Early life Born in Istanbul, Campavias was of Scottish and Spanish extraction. She was br ...

(1918–1990) * John Kyffin Williams (1918–2006) *

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

(1918–1964) *

Richard Vicary Richard Vicary (8 July 1918 – 8 August 2006) was a British artist and printmaker. He was born in Sutton, Surrey, UK on 8 July 1918. His father was the clergyman W. W. Vicary who also wrote novels under the pseudonym Simon Jesty. He studied a ...

(1918–2006) – printmaker *

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 ...

(1918–1988) *

Mary Audsley Mary C. Audsley (1919-2008) was a British painter and sculptor. Biography Audsley was born at Eton in Berkshire. Audsley studied at the Westminster School of Art between 1934 and 1938, where she was taught by Eric Schilsky, Mark Gertler and B ...

(1919–2008) *

Norman Cornish Norman Stansfield Cornish (18 November 1919 – 1 August 2014) was an English mining artist. Career Cornish was the last surviving member of the "Pitman's Academy" art school at the Spennymoor Settlement in County Durham in North East England. ...

(1919–2014) *

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

(1919–2003) *

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

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

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

(1920–1999) *

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

(1920–2004) *

Françoise Taylor Françoise Taylor (née Wauters) was a Belgian/British artist (1 January 1920 – 24 January 2007). Life Françoise Taylor (née Wauters) was born in Bressoux, Liège, on 1 January 1920. Her father, Charles Wauters, was Professor Emeritus at th ...

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

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

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

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

(1922–2005) *

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

(1922–2008) *

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

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

Anthony Caro Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract art, abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'Found object, found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, hav ...

(1924–2013) *

Anthony Earnshaw Anthony Earnshaw (9 October 1924 – 17 August 2001) was an English anarchist, artist, author and illustrator. Earnshaw was born in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. His father, a watchmaker and jeweller, died before he was born. His mother ran the fam ...

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

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

(1924–1991) *

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

(1926–2008) *

Ian Hamilton Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay, Order of the British Empire, CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Life Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to James Hamilton Finlay and his wife, Annie Pettigrew, bot ...

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

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

(1926–2019) *

Edna Mann Edna Mann (1926 – 1985) was a British painter and co-founder of the Borough Group of artists. Mann was educated at Romford County High School for Girls and then studied art at the South-East Essex Technical College and School of Art. Here in ...

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

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 ...

(1927–1983) – born in Ireland *

Greta Tomlinson Greta Tomlinson (1927–2021) was an English artist who worked in watercolours, oils and mixed media. At the outset of her career she produced figurative artwork for the Dan Dare cartoon strip in the ''Eagle'' comic. Birth and education The daugh ...

(1927–2021) * Michael Andrews (1928–1995) *

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

(1928–2007) *

Dora Holzhandler Dora Holzhandler (22 March 1928 – 8 October 2015) was a French-born British painter based in London. Biography Dora Holzhandler was born to Jewish-Polish parents (Sehia Holzhandler, handbag maker and Ruchla Rocheman a singer and seamstress) in ...

(1928–2015) – born in Paris to Polish parents but lived in London *

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) *

Dorothy Mead Dorothy Mead (1928–1975) was a British painter. Biography Mead was born in London, England, and adopted at three months old by a family in Walthamstow. Her mother had a florists shop. She first met David Bomberg when he was teaching at the So ...

(1928–1975) *

Joe Tilson Joseph Charles Tilson (born 24 August 1928) is a British artist and fellow of the Royal Academy. He was involved in the Pop Art movement in the 1960s; he has made paintings, prints and constructions. Early life and education Tilson was bo ...

(born 1928) *

John Scanes John Scanes (1928–2004) was a British artist. He was born John Zuschlag in Whitechapel, London, but his family changed their name by deed poll in 1942 during World War II, adopting his mother’s maiden name. Most of his work is signed John Scan ...

(1928–2004) *

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

(1928–1988) *

Barbara Balmer Barbara Balmer RSA (23 September 1929 – 31 December 2017) was a Scottish artist and teacher. Biography Balmer was born in Birmingham and, between 1946 and 1951, studied art at Coventry School of Art and then at the Edinburgh College of Art. ...

(1929–2017) * Zelda Nolte (1929–2003) *

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 Sc ...

(1930–2014) *

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

(born 1930) *

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

(1930–2010) *

Frank Auerbach Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British subject since 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon ...

(born 1931) *

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

(1931–2018) *

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 lif ...

(1931–2018) *

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

(1931–2018) – first winner of the

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award). ...

in 1984 *

Bridget Riley Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. Early life and education Riley was born on 24 April 1931 in Norwood, London ...

(born 1931) *

Valerie Thornton Valerie Thornton (1931–1991) was a British etcher and printmaker. Biography Thornton was born in London, but evacuated to Canada with her two brothers during World War II. She returned to London in 1944 and went on to study at the Byam Shaw ...

(1931–1991) *

Audrey Barker Audrey Melville Barker (1 November 1932 – 25 August 2002) was a British artist who in the later stages of her long career created installation pieces that pioneered ideas on disability and access. Biography Barker was born in the West Ham are ...

(1932–2002) * Peter Blake (born 1932) *

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

(1932–2017) *

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) – royal painter *

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

(born 1932) *

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

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

Euan Uglow Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932 – 31 August 2000) was a British painter. He is best known for his nude and still life paintings, such as ''German Girl'' and ''Skull''. Biography Euan Uglow was born in 1932 in London. As a child, he l ...

(1932–2000) *

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

(born 1932) *

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

(born 1932) *

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

(1933–1999) *

John Furnival John Furnival (29 May 1933 – 31 May 2020) was a British artist and teacher, active in visual and concrete poetry. He was best known for his 'wordscapes'. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Tate, th ...

(1933–2020) – artist of

visual The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight ...

and

concrete Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most ...

poetry *

Vincent Haddelsey Vincent Haddelsey (13 April 1934 – 29 August 2010) was an English naïve painter, who focused on landscapes and horses. Early life Vincent Haddelsey was born in Bargate, Grimsby, England, on April 13, 1934. He was the only child of Sam Ha ...

(1934–2010) *

John Hoyland John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.

(1934–2011) * Jeremy Moon (1934–1973) *

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

(born 1934) – sculptor *

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

(born 1934) – painter *

Paula Rego Paula or PAULA may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Paula, in video game ''EarthBound'' * Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' * Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003 Film and television * ''Paula'' (1915 film), a si ...

(born 1935) – born in Portugal *

Frank Bowling Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling (born 26 February 1934, Bartica, British Guiana), known as Frank Bowling, is a Guyana-born British artist. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Color Field painting, a ...

(born 1936) *

Tony Foster Thomas Scholfield Foster (13 September 1853 – 8 September 1918), commonly known as Tony Foster, was a New Zealand school principal and inspector, and university lecturer. Early life and education He was born in London, England, in 1853. Hi ...

(born 1936) – painter *

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

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

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English 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) *

Allen Jones Allen Jones may refer to: *Allen Jones (Continental Congress) (1739–1798), Continental Congress delegate *Allen Jones (artist) (born 1937), British pop artist * Allen Jones (record producer) (1940–1987), American record producer *A.J. Styles (A ...

(born 1937) * Tom Phillips (born 1937) *

Pamela Scott Wilkie Pamela Scott Wilkie (born 1937) is a British painter and printmaker. Biography Scott Wilkie was born in London, England, in 1937. She was educated at Reading University and then won a Royal Academy David Murray Landscape Scholarship and an awar ...

(born 1937) *

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) *

Carole Steyn Carole Steyn (née Moss) (born 1938, in Manchester) is a British abstract and figurative painter, sculptor, pastellist and ceramicist who works with a wide range of materials and lives in London. Steyn's work draws on a range of influences, in ...

(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) *

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

(born 1939) *

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

(born 1939) * Anthony Green (born 1939) * Patrick Hughes (born 1939) * Ian Hunter (1939–2017) – Dean of Saint Martin's School of Art * John Walker (born 1939) – painter and printmaker * John Byrne (born 1940) *

Peter Liddle Peter Liddle is a British historian and author specialising in the study of the First and Second World Wars. In the 1960s he developed the Liddle Collection, a large collection of interviews and memorabilia mainly relating to the First World War ...

(born 1940) *

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

(1941–2009) * Yvonne Hutton (1941–1991) * Geoffrey Key (born 1941) * Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002) * Ruth Rix (born 1942) * Alan Aldridge (1938–2017) * Grange Calveley (born 1943) * Errol Lloyd (born 1943) * Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015) * Graham Ovenden (born 1943) * Valerie Wiffen (born 1943) * Zacron (1943–2012) – multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster * Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944) * Bruce McLean (born 1944) * David Paskett (born 1944) * Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945) * Maggi Hambling (born 1945) * Ed Herring (1945–2003) * Pete Hoida (born 1944) * Geoffrey Humphries (born 1945) * David Imms (born 1945) * Richard Long (artist), Richard Long (born 1945) * Val Archer (born 1946) * Lewis Blake (born 1946) * Terance James Bond (born 1946) * Paul Dash (born 1946) * Rose Garrard (born 1946) * Winston Branch (born 1947) * Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007) – sculptor * Richard Cook (painter born 1947), Richard Cook (born 1947) * Tam Joseph (born 1947) * Vikki Slowe (born 1947) – printmaker and painter * Linda Sutton (born 1947) * Godfrey Blow (born 1948) * Pete Gilbert (born 1948) – graphic designer and painter * Richard Deacon (sculptor), Richard Deacon (born 1949) – 1987 Turner Prize Winner * Paul Wager (born 1949) – painter and sculptor

Born 1950 and later

* Sam Ainsley (born 1950) * Alison Dunhill (born 1950) * Antony Gormley (born 1950) * Edward Allington (1951–2017) * Humphrey Ocean (born 1951) * Richard Spare (born 1951) * Jeremy Henderson (1952–2009) – artist and painter * Colin Nichols (born 1952) * Tim Woolcock (born 1952) – Modern British painter painting in the tradition of the 1950s * Stephen Pusey (born 1952) * Alan Rankle (born 1952) – landscape painter * Jane Boyd (born 1953) * Pogus Caesar (born 1953) – born in Saint Kitts, St Kitts * Chris Gollon (1953–2017) * Ingrid Pollard (born 1953) * Melinda Camber Porter (1953–2008) – painter, writer, filmmaker, journalist for ''The Times''; lived in London, Paris, and New York * Charles Thomson (artist), Charles Thomson (born 1953) * Martin Yeoman (born 1953) * Michael Clark (artist) (born 1954) * Lubaina Himid (born 1954) * Aidan Hughes (born 1954) * Anish Kapoor (born 1954) * Vivien Blackett (born 1955) * David Tress (born 1955) * Denzil Forrester (born 1956) * Errol Francis (born 1956) * James Dodds (artist), James Dodds (born 1957) * Jeremy Gardiner (born 1957) * Fiona Graham-Mackay (born 1957) – portraits of the royal family * Thomas Hodges (artist), Thomas Hodges (born 1957) – photographic and mixed media artist * Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957) * Willard Wigan (born 1957) * Simon Beck (artist) (born 1958) – snow artist * Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958) * Keith Coventry (born 1958) * Lennie Lee (born 1958) – born in South Africa * Jake Tilson (born 1958) * Andy Dog Johnson (1959–2016) * Claudette Johnson (born 1959) * Hew Locke (born 1959) – born in Scotland * Bruce Munro (born 1959) * Keith Salmon (born 1959) – Scottish landscape painter born in England * Suzzan Blac (born 1960) * Eddie Chambers (writer and artist), Eddie Chambers (born 1960) * John Foulger (1960–2006) * Isaac Julien (born 1960) * Grayson Perry (born 1960) * Nick Fudge (born 1960) * Keith Piper (artist), Keith Piper (born 1960) * Yinka Shonibare (born 1960) * Julie Brook (born 1961) * Sonia Boyce (born 1962) * Jonathan S Hooper (born 1962) * Marion Kalmus (born 1962) * Sarah Lucas (born 1962) * Paul Mellia (born 1962) * Nick Miller (artist), Nick Miller (born 1962) – Irish painter born in England * Janette Parris (born 1962) * Nasser Azam (born 1963) * Nicola Bealing (born 1963) * Tracey Emin (born 1963) * Robert Fogell (born 1963) * Janette Parris (born 1963) * Dean Stalham (born c. 1963) * Barbara Walker (artist), Barbara Walker (born 1963) * Gillian Wearing (born 1963) – 1997 Turner Prize winner * Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) – 1993 Turner Prize winner * Frances Aviva Blane (born 1964) * Jonathan Ellery (born 1964) * Simon Gales (born 1964) * Hipkiss (born 1964) * Rachel Ara (born 1965) * Tom Cartmill (born 1965) * Adam Chodzko (born 1965) * Marion Coutts (born 1965) * Guy Denning (born 1965) * Damien Hirst (born 1965) * Jonathan Huxley (born 1965) * Robert Priseman (born 1965) * Fiona Banner (born 1966) * Fiona Crisp (born 1966) – photographer * Ian Davenport (born 1966) * Juno Doran (born 1966) * Christian Furr (born 1966) * Igor Kufayev (born 1966) * Maria Marshall (born 1966) * Elizabeth Price (artist), Elizabeth Price (born 1966) – 2012 Turner Prize winner * Peter Brown (British artist), Peter Brown (born 1967) * Serena de la Hey (born 1967), sculptor * Andy Lomas (born 1967) * Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967) * Paul Rooney (artist), Paul Rooney (born 1967) * Chris Ofili (born 1968) * Suling Wang (born 1968) * Brita Granström (born 1969) * Chantal Joffe (born 1969) * Jonathan Myles-Lea (1969–2021) – painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes * Michael Gustavius Payne (born 1969) * Alexander Talbot Rice (born 1969) – society portrait painter * Justin Mortimer (born 1970) * Nina Murdoch (artist), Nina Murdoch (born 1970) – tempera painter * Mandy Wilkinson (born 1970) * Jonathan Kearney (born 1971) * David Emmanuel Noel (born 1972) * Anna Barriball (born 1972) – mixed media artist * Dee Ferris (born 1973) * Peter Liversidge (born 1973) * Malcolm McGookin (born 1956) * Banksy (born 1974) * Tom Palin (born 1974) * Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974) – savant artist * Graham Nicholls (born 1975) * Lucy Skaer (born 1975) * Amanda Ansell (born 1976) * Reuben Colley (born 1976) * Adelaide Damoah (born c. 1977) * Maryam Hashemi (born 1977) * Conrad Shawcross (born 1977) * Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) * Claire Hooper (artist), Claire Hooper (born 1978) * David Spriggs (artist), David Spriggs (born 1978) – sculptor, installation artist * Angela Wakefield (born 1978) * Hannah Rickards (born 1979) * Fuller (artist), Fuller (born 1980) * Nick Gentry (born 1980) * Conor Harrington (born 1980) * Edward Kluz (born 1980) * Polly Morgan (taxidermist), Polly Morgan (born 1980) * Stuart Semple (born 1980) * Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983) * Anna King (artist), Anna King (born 1984) * Anthony Smith (sculptor), Anthony Smith (born 1984) – bronze sculptor * Sarah Maple (born 1985) – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner * Emma Cousin (born 1986) * Johan Andersson (artist), Johan Andersson (born 1986) * Nicola Frimpong (born 1987) * Nathan Wyburn (born 1989) – food artist * Sophie Green (born 1992)

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Born 1950 and later

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