List of British painters
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Born 16th Century
- George GowerGeorge GowerGeorge Gower was an English portrait painter who became Serjeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth I in 1581.-Life:Little is known about his early life except that he was a grandson of Sir John Gower of Stettenham, Yorkshire....
(c. 1540–1596) - Nicolas Hilliard (1547–1619)
- Sir Nathaniel BaconSir Nathaniel BaconSir Nathaniel Bacon was a wealthy landowner from Culford, Suffolk, England.Bacon was an exceptionally skillful amateur painter and gardener. Only a small group of 9 of his paintings survive...
(1585–1627) - Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (1593-1661)
- Sir Anthony Van DyckAnthony van DyckSir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...
(1599–1641) (born Flemish) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
Born 17th Century
- William DobsonWilliam DobsonWilliam Dobson was a portraitist and one of the first notable English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred"....
(1610–1646) - John Michael WrightJohn Michael WrightJohn Michael Wright was a portrait painter in the Baroque style. Described variously as English and Scottish, Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and acquired a considerable reputation as an artist and scholar during a long sojourn in Rome...
(1617–1694) - Peter LelyPeter LelySir Peter Lely 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:...
(1618-1680) Principal Painter in OrdinaryOrdinaryIn those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church's laws...
to Charles II (1661) - Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
- Sir James ThornhillJames ThornhillSir James Thornhill was an English painter of historical subjects, in the Italian baroque tradition.-Life:...
(1675–1734) - Peter MonamyPeter MonamyPeter 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...
(1681-1749) - John WoottonJohn WoottonJohn Wootton was an English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes, and illustrator.-Life:Born in Snitterfield, Warwickshire , he is best remembered as a pioneer in the painting of sporting subjects – together with Peter Tillemans and James Seymour – and was considered the...
(1682–1764) - Joseph HighmoreJoseph HighmoreJoseph Highmore was an English portrait and historical painter, illustrator and author.-Life:Highmore was born in London, the third son of Edward Highmore, a coal merchant, and nephew of Thomas Highmore, Serjeant Painter to William III. He displayed early ability but was discouraged by his family...
(1692-1780) - John VanderbankJohn VanderbankJohn Vanderbank was an English portrait painter and book illustrator, who enjoyed a high reputation for a short while during the reign of King George I, but who died relatively young due to an intemperate and extravagant lifestyle.-Life:Vanderbank was born in London, the eldest son of John...
(1694–1739) - William HogarthWilliam HogarthWilliam Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...
(1697–1764)
Born 18th Century
- Thomas HudsonThomas HudsonThomas Hudson may refer to:* Thomas Hudson , British actor* Thomas Hudson , English portrait painter of the eighteenth century...
(1701-1779) - William HoareWilliam HoareWilliam Hoare of Bath RA was an English painter and printmaker, co-founder of the Royal Academy noted for his pastels....
(c. 1707–1792) - Francis HaymanFrancis HaymanFrancis Hayman was an English painter and illustrator who became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 and later its first librarian....
(1708–1776) - John ShackletonJohn ShackletonJohn Shackleton was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown.-Output:...
(1714–1767) Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III - Richard WilsonRichard Wilson (painter)Richard Wilson was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' He is considered to be the...
(1714–1782) - Charles BrookingCharles BrookingCharles Brooking was an English painter of marine scenes.-Life:It is highly probable that Brooking’s father was a Charles Brooking who was recorded as employed by Greenwich Hospital between 1729 and 1736 as a painter and decorator. Charles Brooking senior had earlier been active in Plymouth and...
(1723-1759) - Sir Joshua ReynoldsJoshua ReynoldsSir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy...
(1723–1792) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King - George StubbsGeorge StubbsGeorge Stubbs was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses.-Biography:Stubbs was born in Liverpool, the son of a currier and leather merchant. Information on his life up to age thirty-five is sparse, relying almost entirely on notes made by fellow artist Ozias Humphry towards the...
(1724–1806) - Thomas GainsboroughThomas GainsboroughThomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...
(1727–1788) - Sawrey GilpinSawrey GilpinSawrey Gilpin 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:...
(1733–1807) - Johann ZoffanyJohann ZoffanyJohan Zoffany, Zoffani or Zauffelij was a German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England...
(1733-1810) born in Frankfurt - George RomneyGeorge Romney (painter)George Romney was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures - including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson....
(1734–1802) - Joseph Wright of DerbyJoseph Wright of DerbyJoseph Wright , styled Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution"....
(1734–1797) - Henry FuseliHenry FuseliHenry Fuseli was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of Swiss origin.-Biography:...
(1741–1825) born in Zurich, Switzerland - The Revd Matthew William PetersWilliam Peters (painter)Matthew William Peters 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...
(1742–1814) - William HodgesWilliam HodgesWilliam Hodges RA was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic.Hodges was born in London. He was a...
(1744-1797) - Henry Walton (1746-1813)
- William TateWilliam Tate (painter)William Tate was an English portrait painter. He was born in 1747 probably at Gawber Hall, near Barnsley, where his father was a glass maker and was christened on 14 November of that year in Darton near Barnsley He was educated at Woolton near Liverpool where his brother Richard Tate lived and...
(1747-1806) - Joseph BarneyJoseph BarneyJoseph Barney , was an English artist and engraver. He is usually described as a pupil of Antonio Zucchi and Angelica Kauffmann and as a fruit and flower painter to the Prince Regent...
(1753-1832) - Prince Hoare (1755–1834), painter and dramatist
- Philip (or Philippe) JeanPhilip JeanPhilippe Jean was a painter.Jean was born in Saint Ouen, Jersey, the son of Nicholas Jean and Marie Grandin. He was at first in the English Royal Navy, but later devoted himself to painting...
(1755–1802) of Jersey - Thomas StothardThomas StothardThomas Stothard was an English painter, illustrator and engraver.-Life and work:Stothard was born in London, the son of a well-to-do innkeeper in Long Acre, London. A delicate child, he was sent at the age of five to a relative in Yorkshire, and attended school at Acomb, and afterwards at...
(1755–1834 - William BlakeWilliam BlakeWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
(1757–1827) - Lemuel Francis AbbottLemuel Francis AbbottLemuel "Francis" Abbot was an English portrait painter, famous for his likeness of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century.-Life and work:He was born Lemuel Abbott in Leicestershire in 1760 or 1761,...
(1760–1803) - Sir Thomas LawrenceThomas Lawrence (painter)Sir Thomas Lawrence RA FRS was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.Lawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his...
(1760–1830) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King - George MorlandGeorge MorlandGeorge Morland was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes.-Life:Morland was born in London, the 3rd son of Henry Robert Morland , artist, engraver and picture restorer...
(1763–1804) - Samuel DrummondSamuel DrummondSamuel Drummond was a British painter, especially prolific in portraying and marine genre. His works are displayed particularly in the National Portrait Gallery, National Maritime Museum and the Walker Art Gallery.-Life:Drummond was born to Jane Bicknell and James Drummond, a London baker...
(1766-1844) - John CromeJohn CromeJohn Crome was an English landscape artist of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists of the "Norwich school". He is known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his son, John Berney Crome, who was also a well-known artist.-Life and work:Crome was born in Norwich in Norfolk, the son of a weaver...
(1768–1821) - James WardJames Ward (artist)James Ward , R.A., was a painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver.-Biography:Born in London, and younger brother of William Ward the engraver, James Ward was influenced by many people, but his career is conventionally divided into two periods: until 1803, his single greatest influence was...
(1769–1859) - Edward BirdEdward BirdEdward Bird was an English genre painter who spent most of his working life in Bristol, where the Bristol School of artists formed around him....
(1772-1819) - Charles Henry SchwanfelderCharles Henry SchwanfelderCharles Henry Schwanfelder was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter.He was the son of a German decorative painter and started out helping his father to paint clock faces and snuff boxes...
(1774-1837) - Thomas GirtinThomas GirtinThomas Girtin was an English painter and etcher. A friend and rival of J. M. W. Turner, Girtin played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form.-Biography:...
(1775–1802) - Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
- John ConstableJohn ConstableJohn Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection...
(1776–1837) - John JacksonJohn Jackson (painter)John Jackson was an English painter.Jackson was born in Lastingham, Yorkshire, and started his career as an apprentice tailor to his father, who opposed the artistic ambitions of his son...
(1778–1831) - John VarleyJohn Varley (painter)John Varley was an English watercolour painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake. They collaborated in 1819–1820 on the book Visionary Heads, written by Varley and illustrated by Blake...
(1778–1842) - John Sell CotmanJohn Sell CotmanJohn Sell Cotman was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator and author, one of the leading lights of the Norwich school of artists.-Early life and work:...
(1782–1842) - Sir David WilkieDavid Wilkie (artist)Sir David Wilkie was a Scottish painter.- Early life :Wilkie was the son of the parish minister of Cults in Fife. He developed a love for art at an early age. In 1799, after he had attended school at Pitlessie, Kettle and Cupar, his father reluctantly agreed to his becoming a painter...
(1785–1841) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King - Benjamin HaydonBenjamin HaydonBenjamin Robert Haydon was an English historical painter and writer.-Biography:Haydon was born in Plymouth. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Cobley, rector of Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge, Devon. Her brother, General Sir Thomas Cobley, was renowned for his part in the siege of Ismail...
(1786–1846) - William MulreadyWilliam MulreadyWilliam Mulready was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets, issued at the same time as the Penny Black postage stamp.-Life and family:William Mulready was born in Ennis, County...
(1786–1863) - John MartinJohn Martin (painter)John Martin was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.-Biography:Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room family cottage, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the 4th son of Fenwick Martin, a one time fencing master...
(1789–1854) - William Linton (1791-1876)
- Sir George HayterGeorge HayterSir George Hayter was a notable English painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits...
(1792–1871) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen - Francis DanbyFrancis DanbyFrancis Danby 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 figure in a group of artists who have come to be known as the Bristol School...
(1793–1861) - Charles Robert LeslieCharles Robert Leslie]Charles Robert Leslie , was an English genre painter. Born in London, his parents were American, and when he was five years of age he returned with them to their native country. They settled in Philadelphia, where their son was educated and afterwards apprenticed to a bookseller...
(1794–1859) - Joseph StannardJoseph StannardJoseph Stannard was an English marine and landscape painter, and etcher, a prominent member of the Norwich School of artists , which also included John Crome and John Sell Cotman.-Life:...
(1797–1830) - Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
- Henry CollenHenry CollenHenry Collen was a miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria and the Duchess of Kent. Later in life he turned to photography and was on the cutting edge in photography in mid-19th century in London...
(1797–1879) - Thomas Witlam AtkinsonThomas Witlam AtkinsonThomas Witlam Atkinson was an English architect, quarryman, stonemason, and travel writer.He was born in Cawthorne, near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1799. Between 1848 and 1853 he travelled over 40 000 miles through Eastern Europe and Asiatic Russia with his wife Lucy, and painted and...
(1799-1861)
Born 19th Century
- John HayterJohn HayterJohn Hayter was an English portrait painter. He was the second son of the miniaturist Charles Hayter and brother of Sir George Hayter, also a portaitist. He entered the Royal Academy schools in 1815, and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in the same year. He also exhibited work at the British...
(1800-1895) - Thomas WebsterThomas Webster (painter)Thomas Webster , was an English genre painter, who lived for many years at the artists' colony in Cranbrook.-Life:Webster was born in Ranelagh Street, Pimlico, London...
(1800-1886) - Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
- Thomas Sidney CooperThomas Sidney CooperThomas Sidney Cooper was an English landscape painter noted for his images of cattle and farm animals.Cooper was born at Canterbury, Kent, and as a small child he began to show strong artistic inclinations, but the circumstances of his family did not allow him to received any systematic training...
(1803–1902) - John Scarlett DavisJohn Scarlett DavisJohn Scarlett Davis , or Davies, was an English landscape, portrait and architectural painter, and lithographer.-Life and work:...
(1804–1845) - Edwin Wilkins FieldEdwin Wilkins FieldEdwin Wilkins Field was an English lawyer and painter who committed much of his life to law reform.-Life:Edwin was the eldest son of William Field and was born at Leam, near Warwick. He was educated at his father's school, and on 19 March 1821 was articled to the firm of Taylor & Roscoe,...
(1804–1871) - George Armfield (Smith) (1808-1893)
- William Knight KeelingWilliam Knight KeelingWilliam Knight Keeling was a British artist, an illustrator of Walter Scott's novels and Shakespeare's plays, a founder and the third President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.William Knight Keeling was born in Manchester...
(1817-1886) - William Edward FrostWilliam Edward FrostWilliam Edward Frost was an English painter of the Victorian era. Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude....
(1810–1877) - Henry Dawson (artist)Henry Dawson (artist)Henry Dawson, a landscape painter, was born in Hull in 1811, but came with his parents to Nottingham when an infant, so that he always regarded the latter as his native town. His parents were poor, and he began life in a Nottingham lace factory...
(1811-1878) - Thomas Joy (1812–1866)
- Harry Hall (c.1814–1882)
- John AbsolonJohn AbsolonJohn Absolon was a British watercolor painter, born in London in 1815. He studied in London and then Paris.Among his works are:* Metare * First Night in the Monastery, Dopscen * Coast Scene, Normandy...
(1815-1895) - Augustus EggAugustus EggAugustus Leopold Egg 2 May 1816 in London, England – 26 March 1863) was a Victorian artist best known for his modern triptych Past and Present , which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family.-Biography:...
(1816–1863) - James Francis DanbyJames Francis DanbyJames Francis Danby, an English landscape painter, the son of Francis Danby, A.R.A., was born at Bristol in 1816. His works appeared at the Royal Academy, and at the Society of British Artists, of which latter he was a member. He died of apoplexy in London in 1875. He excelled in depicting sunrise...
(1816–1875) - Edward Matthew WardEdward Matthew WardEdward Matthew Ward was an English Victorian narrative painter best known for his murals in the Palace of Westminster depicting episodes in British history from the English Civil War to the Glorious Revolution.-Early career:...
(1816–1879) - John PhillipJohn PhillipJohn Phillip was a Victorian era painter best known for his portrayals of Spanish life. He was nicknamed "Spanish Phillip"....
(1817–1867) - Branwell BrontëBranwell BrontëPatrick Branwell Brontë was a painter and poet, the only son of the Brontë family, and the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.-Youth:...
(1817-1848) - Thomas Danby (artist)Thomas Danby (artist)Thomas Danby was an English landscape painter.Danby was born, it is thought, in Bristol in south-west England, the younger son of Francis Danby . He had an elder brother, James Francis Danby who also became a landscape painter...
(1817–1886) - Richard DaddRichard DaddRichard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail...
(1817–1886) - John Callcott HorsleyJohn Callcott HorsleyJohn Callcott Horsley RA , was an English Academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook.-Life:...
(1817-1903) - Henry Mark AnthonyHenry Mark AnthonyHenry Mark Anthony was an English landscape artist, often favourably compared to John Constable by critics...
(1817-1886) - Louisa Stuart Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford (1818–1891)
- John Anster FitzgeraldJohn Anster FitzgeraldJohn Anster Christian Fitzgerald was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main genre...
(1819?–1906) - William Powell FrithWilliam Powell FrithWilliam Powell Frith , 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 1852...
(1819–1909) - Mary Ann Duffield (1819–1914)
- Robert Huskisson (1820–1861)
- James SantJames SantJames Sant CVO, RA was a British painter specializing in portraits, and a member of the Royal Academy.Sant was born in Croydon and taught by John Varley and Augustus Wall Callcott. He lived to the age of 96 and produced an astonishing number of canvases for exhibition at the Academy, some 250 of...
(1820–1916) - James SmethamJames SmethamJames Smetham was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter and engraver, a follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti....
(1821–1889) - Ford Madox BrownFord Madox BrownFord Madox Brown was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work...
(1821–1893) - Sir Joseph Noel PatonJoseph Noel PatonSir Joseph Noel Paton FRSA, LL. D. was a Scottish artist, born in Wooer's Alley, Dunfermline, Fife.Born to a family of weavers who worked with damask, Joseph continued the family trade for a short time...
(1821–1901) - George HardyGeorge HardyGeorge Hardy was an English genre painter, a member of the Cranbrook Colony and eldest brother to Frederick Daniel Hardy.Hardy was born in Brighton in Sussex the first son of George Hardy , a musician to George IV, Queen Adelaide, and Queen Victoria in the Royal household at Windsor. His mother...
(1822-1909) - Frederick GoodallFrederick GoodallFrederick Goodall was an English artist.Goodall was born in London, England in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall . He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy....
(1822–1904) - William Shakespeare BurtonWilliam Shakespeare BurtonWilliam Shakespeare Burton was an English genre and historical painter of the Victorian era. He is now remembered mainly for The Wounded Cavalier ....
(1824-1916) - Eleanor Vere BoyleEleanor Vere BoyleEleanor Vere Gordon Boyle was an English artist and author of the Victorian era. She has been considered the most important female illustrator of the 1860s....
(1825–1916) - William Holman HuntWilliam Holman HuntWilliam Holman Hunt OM was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Biography:...
(1827–1910) - Frederick Daniel HardyFrederick Daniel HardyFrederick Daniel Hardy was an English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony.-Life:Hardy was born in Windsor in Berkshire, one of six children of George Hardy , a musician to George IV, Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria in the Royal household at Windsor...
(1827-1911) - John Wharlton BunneyJohn Wharlton BunneyJohn Wharlton Bunney was an English topographical and landscape artist of the nineteenth century.His father was a merchant captain whom Bunney, as a boy, accompanied on several voyages around the world. Bunney demonstrated a strong talent for drawing and draftsmanship from an early age...
(1828–1882) - Dante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...
(1828–1882) - George Bernard O'NeillGeorge Bernard O'NeillGeorge Bernard O'Neill , was a prolific Anglo-Irish genre painter, from 1859 a member of the Cranbrook Colony of artists.-Life and work:...
(1828-1917) - John Bagnold BurgessJohn Bagnold BurgessJohn Bagnold Burgess was an English artist known for his of paintings of historical and genre scenes, principally in Spain.-Life and work:...
(1829-1897) - Edwin LongEdwin LongEdwin Longsden Long RA was an English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter.-Life and works:Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of E. Long, an artist , and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath. Adopting the profession of a painter, Long came to London and studied in the British...
(1829–1890) - John Everett MillaisJohn Everett MillaisSir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...
(1829–1896) - Lord Frederick LeightonFrederic Leighton, 1st Baron LeightonFrederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA , known as Sir Frederic Leighton, Bt, between 1886 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter...
(1830–1896) - Arthur HughesArthur Hughes (artist)Arthur Hughes , was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He is the uncle of the English painter Edward Robert Hughes.-Biography:Hughes was born in London...
(1832–1915) - Henrietta WardHenrietta WardHenrietta Mary Ada Ward was a notable English historical and genre painter of the Victorian era and the early twentieth century.-Life and work:...
(1832–1924) - Sir Edward Burne-JonesEdward Burne-JonesSir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company...
(1833–1898) - Benjamin Williams LeaderBenjamin Williams LeaderBenjamin Williams Leader RA was an English landscape painter.-Early years and training:Leader was born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, the son, and first child of eleven children, of notable civil engineer Edward Leader Williams and Sarah Whiting...
RA (1833–1921 - George Henry BoughtonGeorge Henry BoughtonGeorge Henry Boughton was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer.-Life and work:...
(1833-1905) - Frederic ShieldsFrederic ShieldsFrederic James Shields , was a British artist, illustrator and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites through Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.-Early years:...
(1833-1911) - William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
(1834–1896) - Emily Mary OsbornEmily Mary OsbornEmily Mary Osborn , or Osborne, was an English painter of the Victorian era.She was born in Essex, the eldest of nine children of a clergyman. She was educated at Dickinson's Academy in London. In 1851, at the age of seventeen, Osborn began showing her work in the annual Royal Academy exhibits, and...
(1834–1913) - Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaLawrence Alma-TademaLawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Dutch painter.Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there...
(1836–1912) born Dutch in Dronrijp in the Netherlands - John Atkinson GrimshawJohn Atkinson GrimshawJohn Atkinson Grimshaw was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city night-scenes and landscapes....
(1836–1893) - Walter GoodmanWalter GoodmanWalter Goodman was a British painter, illustrator and author.The son of British portrait painter Julia Salaman and London linen draper and town councillor, Louis Goodman , he studied with J. M. Leigh and at the Royal Academy in London, where he was admitted as a student in 1851...
(1838–1912) - Charles Edward PeruginiCharles Edward PeruginiCharles Edward Perugini , originally Carlo Perugini, was an Italian-born English painter of the Victorian era....
(1839–1918) - Kate PeruginiKate PeruginiKate Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Charles Dickens.-Biography:...
(1839–1929) - John Clayton AdamsJohn Clayton AdamsJohn Clayton Adams or J. Clayton Adams was an English landscape artist-Life:Adams was born the second son of Mr. C. H...
(1840–1906) - Albert Joseph MooreAlbert Joseph MooreAlbert Joseph Moore was an English painter, known for his depictions of langorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world....
(1841–1893) - Edith Martineau (1842–1909)
- Sydney Prior HallSydney Prior HallSir Sydney Prior Hall MVO, MA was a British portrait painter and illustrator and one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period....
(1842–1922) - Clara MontalbaClara MontalbaClara Federica Montalba RWS was a British artist, chiefly known for her watercolour paintings of Venice. She was the eldest of four daughters of the Swedish-born artist Anthony Rubens Montalba, all of whom achieved considerable artistic success, though Clara was arguably the most accomplished and...
(1842–1929) - Herbert William WeekesHerbert William WeekesHerbert William Weekes was a well-known British genre and animal painter of the Victorian Neoclassical period who specialized in portraying animals in humorous, human-like situations.-Early life and family:...
(ca. 1842 – Unknown) - Louise JoplingLouise JoplingLouise Jane Jopling was an English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent women artists of her generation.-Early life:...
(1843–1933) - Augustus Edwin MulreadyAugustus Edwin MulreadyAugustus Edwin Mulready was an English genre painter whose work often depicted London street scenes with urchins and flower-sellers.-Life and work:Mulready came from a family of artists...
(1844-1904) - Marie Spartali StillmanMarie Spartali StillmanMarie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman , was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter of Greek descent, arguably the greatest female artist of that movement...
(1844–1927) - Susan DacreSusan DacreSusan Isabel Dacre was an English artist of the Victorian era.She was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, and was educated at a convent school in Salford. For the decade of 1858–68 she lived in Paris, first attending school and later working as a governess...
(1844–1933) - Annie SwynnertonAnnie SwynnertonAnnie Louisa Robinson Swynnerton was an English painter.She was born in Kersal, then a suburb of Manchester. She was one of the seven daughters of solicitor Francis Robinson; she began painting to contribute to the family's support. Later she trained at the Manchester School of Art and the...
(1844–1933) - Louisa Starr Canziani (1845–1909)
- Ellen Gertrude Cohen (1846 – Unknown)
- Edith CorbetEdith CorbetEdith Corbet , was a Victorian landscape painter, having close associations with the Macchiaioli group , who, in a break with tradition, painted outdoors in order to capture natural light effects and favoured a panoramic format for their paintings...
(1846–1920) - Kate GreenawayKate GreenawayCatherine Greenaway , known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer, who spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by...
(1846–1901) - Walter GreavesWalter Greaves (artist)Walter Greaves was a British painter, etcher and topographical draftsman.-Biography:The son of Charles William Greaves, a Chelsea boat builder and waterman, and his wife, Elizabeth Greenway, Greaves was born in 1846 at 31 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London. His father had been J. M. W. Turner's boatman...
(1846–1930) - Marion Ellis RowanEllis RowanMarian Ellis Rowan , known as Ellis Rowan, was a well-known Australian botanical illustrator. She also did series of illustrations on birds, butterflies and insects....
(1847–1922) - William Biscombe GardnerWilliam Biscombe GardnerWilliam Biscombe Gardner was an English painter and engraver. Working in both watercolour and oils, he exhibited widely in London in the late 19th century at venues such as the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery...
(1847-1919) - Helen AllinghamHelen Allingham__NOEDITSECTION__Helen Allingham was an English watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.-Biography:...
(1848–1926) - Helen ThornycroftHelen ThornycroftHelen Thornycroft was an English painter of the Victorian era.She was a member of the well-known Thornycroft family of sculptors, which included her maternal grandfather John Francis, her father Thomas Thornycroft, her mother Mary Thornycroft, and her younger brother Hamo Thornycroft...
(1848–1937) - John William WaterhouseJohn William WaterhouseJohn William Waterhouse was an English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heydey in the mid-nineteenth century, leading him to have gained the moniker of "the modern Pre-Raphaelite"...
(1849–1917) - Mary Waller (1850?–1931)
- John CollierJohn Collier (artist)The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI , called 'Jack' by his family and friends, was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry...
(1850–1934) - Mary Louise Hall (1851–1929)
- Edward Robert HughesEdward Robert HughesEdward Robert Hughes was an English painter who worked in a style influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism. Some of his best known works are Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars. Hughes was the nephew of Arthur Hughes. He often used watercolour/gouache...
(1851–1914) - Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909)
- Alfred de Breanski, Sr. (1852–1928)
- Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr.Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr.Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. was an English-born landscape painter who moved to the United States at age 20. In 1900, his employer, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, transferred him from San Francisco to Hawaii. In Hawaii, he worked as an insurance adjuster and was secretary of the Board of Fire...
(1852-1944) - Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
- Frank Bernard DickseeFrank Bernard DickseeSir Francis Bernard Dicksee KCVO was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic historical and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portraits of fashionable women, which helped to bring him success in his own time. Dicksee was born in London...
(1853–1928) - Alfred Robert QuintonA. R. QuintonAlfred Robert Quinton was an English watercolour artist, known for his paintings of British villages and landscapes, many of which were published as postcards. Well over 2,000 of his paintings were published between 1904 and the time of his death. He also illustrated a number of books including...
(1853–1934) - Edward Wilkins WaiteEdward Wilkins WaiteEdward Wilkins Waite RBA was a prolific English landscape painter.Waite was born in Leatherhead in Surrey, the son of the Rev. Edward Waite, MA, and his wife Cleopha Julia - there were 6 sons and two daughters in total...
(1854-1924) - Marianne StokesMarianne StokesMarianne Stokes , born Marianne Preindlsberger in the Austrian province of Styria, was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes , the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Marianne Stokes was considered one of the leading artists in Victorian...
(1855–1927) - Blanche Jenkins (1855?–1934?)
- Jane Mary DealyJane Mary DealyJane Mary Dealy was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books....
, Lady Lewis (1856–1939) - Sara PageSara PageSara Wells Page was a British female artist, portrait and figurative painter, of Victorian and Edwardian period. During her lifetime she widely exhibited at Parisian salons and British galleries, including Royal Academy of Art...
(1855-1943) - Alfred WallisAlfred WallisAlfred Wallis was a Cornish fisherman and artist.Wallis's parents, Charles and Jane Wallis were from Penzance in Cornwall and moved to Devonport, Devon to find work in 1850 where Alfred and his brother Charles were born. Shortly after this the children's mother died and this prompted the family to...
(1855–1942) - Robert C. BarnfieldRobert C. BarnfieldRobert C. Barnfield was a painter who was born in Gloucester, England. He trained in London as an architect, but relocated to New Zealand in 1883 because of his asthma. In 1885, he arrived in Honolulu aboard the Explorer...
(1856-1893) - Joseph Vickers de VilleJoseph Vickers de VilleJoseph Vickers de Ville was an English painter of landscapes and rural subjects.-Life and work:Joseph Vickers de Ville was a son of the farmers Joseph and Mary Deville. He was born in Eaton, Derbyshire, but is considered a Wolverhampton artist, as he moved to Wolverhampton by 1881, together with...
(1856-1925) - William Wells QuatremainW. W. QuatremainWilliam Wells Quatremain was an English artist who painted many oil and watercolour landscapes of Britain, many of which were also published as postcards....
(1857–1930) - Arthur MelvilleArthur MelvilleArthur Melville was a Scottish painter, now probably best remembered for his Orientalist subjects.He was born in Scotland, in a village of Haddingtonshire...
(1858–1904) - Henry Scott TukeHenry Scott TukeHenry Scott Tuke, RA RWS , was a British visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is probably best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men....
(1858-1927) - Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes (1859–1912)
- Annie Mary Youngman (1859–1919)
- Henrietta RaeHenrietta RaeHenrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae was a prominent English painter of the later Victorian era.Born in Hammersmith, London, she was the youngest of seven children of a civil servant; her mother was musically talented, a former student of Felix Mendelssohn. An uncle, Charles Rae, was an artist and a...
(1859–1928) - Charles W. BartlettCharles W. BartlettCharles William Bartlett was an English painter and printmaker. He studied metallurgy and worked in that field for several years. At age 23, he enrolled in the Royal Academy in London, where he studied painting and etching...
(1860–1940) - George PhoenixGeorge PhoenixGeorge Phoenix was a British landscape, figurative and portrait artist and sculptor. He regularly exhibited his works in his native Wolverhampton and nationally...
(1863-1935) - Arthur WardleArthur WardleArthur Wardle was an English 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 animals...
(1864–1949) - Anna Alma-TademaAnna Alma-TademaAnna Alma-Tadema was a British artist, the second daughter and pupil of the well-known Anglo-Dutch painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, born Laurens Tadema. Her mother Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, Laurens' first wife, died when she was two years old. She grew up in London, where her father had...
(1865–1943) - Charles SpencelayhCharles SpencelayhCharles Spencelayh was an English genre painter and portraitist in the Academic style.Spencelayh was born in Rochester in Kent, and first studied at the National Art Training School, South Kensington. He showed his work at the Paris Salon, but most of his exhibitions were in Britain...
(1865–1958) - John Guille MillaisJohn Guille MillaisJohn Guille Millais , known as "Johnny" Millais, was an English artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time...
(1865–1931) - Milly ChildersMilly ChildersEmily Maria Eardley Childers , known as Milly, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century....
(1866–1922) - Helen Thomas DrangaHelen Thomas DrangaHelen Thomas Dranga , who is also known as Carrie Helen Dranga, was a painter who was born Carrie Helen Tufts in Oxford, England. She lived in Oakland, California from 1894 until 1900, when she moved to Hilo, Hawaii. Her paintings regularly appeared on the cover of Paradise of the Pacific...
(1866-1940) - Roger FryRoger FryRoger Eliot Fry was an English artist and art 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 developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism...
(1866–1934) - Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
- Frank BrangwynFrank BrangwynSir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA was an Anglo-Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer.- Biography :...
(1867-1956) born in Bruges - Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898)
- Eleanor Fortescue-BrickdaleEleanor Fortescue-BrickdaleEleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was an English artist from London. She studied at the Royal Academy and worked at first mostly in illustration, moving to paintings influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Later, she also worked with stained glass. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to...
(1872–1945) - Alexander ScottAlexander Scott (painter)Alexander Scott was a British landscape painter, the son of Thomas Scott, a noted portraitist for The Illustrated London News. The Fine Art Society, London, exhibited Alexander Scott's painting and sketches of India and Kashmir in 1889, and also posthumously in 1932. He was in Hawaii by 1906,...
(1872-1932) - Arthur Henry Knighton-HammondArthur Henry Knighton-HammondArthur Henry Knighton-Hammond was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire as Arthur Henry Hammond. Knighton-Hammond was an English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits and industrial paintings. Knighton-Hammond used a variety of styles but is most famous as a water-colourist...
(1875–1970) - Gwen JohnGwen JohnGwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. She is noted for her still lifes and for her portraits, especially of anonymous female sitters...
(1876–1939) - Alfred Fontville de Breanski, Jr. (1877–1957)
- Frank Cadogan CowperFrank Cadogan CowperFrank Cadogan Cowper was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary scenes, described as "The last of the Pre-Raphaelites".-Life and work:...
(1877–1958) - Laura KnightLaura KnightDame Laura Knight, DBE was an English Impressionist painter known for painting the world of London's theatre, ballet and circus.-Early life and education:...
(1877-1970) - Frank Montague MooreFrank Montague MooreFrank Montague Moore was a painter and the first director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. He was born November 24, 1877 in Taunton, England, and studied at the Liverpool Art School and the Royal Institute. He immigrated to the United States and took additional painting lessons from Henry Ward...
(1877-1967) - Augustus JohnAugustus JohnAugustus Edwin John OM, RA, was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom....
(1878–1961) - J. Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954)
- Vanessa BellVanessa BellVanessa Bell was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group, and the sister of Virginia Woolf.- Biography and art :...
(1879–1961) - Anna AiryAnna AiryAnna Airy was an oil painter, pastel artist and etcher, working in Britain.She was born in Greenwich, London, daughter of engineer Wilfrid Airy and Anna née Listing, and granddaughter of Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy....
(1882–1964) - Wyndham LewisWyndham LewisPercy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...
(1884–1957) - Duncan GrantDuncan GrantDuncan James Corrowr Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, potterty and theatre sets and costumes...
(1885–1978) - Stanley RoyleStanley RoyleStanley Royle was a post-impressionist English landscape painter and illustrator who lived for most of his life in and around Sheffield and Canada...
(1888–1961) - Cedric MorrisCedric MorrisSir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet was a British artist, art teacher and plantsman. He was born in Swansea but worked mainly in East Anglia...
(1889-1982) - Stanley SpencerStanley SpencerSir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Much of his work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent most of his life...
(1891–1959) - Orovida Camille PissarroOrovida Camille PissarroOrovida Pissarro , known for most of her life as Orovida, was a British painter and etcher. She was part of a family of artists, including her father Lucien Pissarro and grandfather, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro....
(1893–1968) - Cowan DobsonCowan DobsonDavid Cowan Dobson , referred to as 'Cowan' Dobson ARBA , RBA , was a leading Scottish portrait artist who mainly worked in London...
(1894-1980) - Ben NicholsonBen NicholsonBenjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson, OM was a British painter of abstract compositions , landscape and still-life.-Background and Training:...
(1894–1982) - Cicely Mary BarkerCicely Mary BarkerCicely Mary Barker was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers. Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instruction at the Croydon School of Art...
(1895–1973)
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- Edward PritchettEdward PritchettEdward Pritchett was a nineteenth-century English painter and man of mystery.Nothing is known of Pritchett's life; he has appropriately been described as "elusive." He may have lived to 1879...
(fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1828–1864) - Leonard Huskisson (fl. 1839–1859)
- Florence ClaxtonFlorence ClaxtonFlorence Anne Claxton was an English artist and humorist, most notable for her satire on the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Claxton also wrote and illustrated many humorous commentaries on contemporary life.-Life:...
(fl. 1840–1879) - Eleanor Stuart Wood (fl. 1876–1910)
- Flora MacDonald Reid (c. 1860 – c. 1939)
Born 20th Century
- Ceri RichardsCeri Richards-Biography:Richards was born in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Richards . He and his younger brother and sister, Owen and Esther, were brought up in a highly cultured, working-class environment...
(1903-1971) - Graham SutherlandGraham SutherlandGraham Vivien Sutherland OM was an English artist.-Early life:He was born in Streatham, attending Homefield Preparatory School, Sutton. He was then educated at Epsom College, Surrey before going up to Goldsmiths, University of London...
(1903–1980) - John PiperJohn Piper (artist)John Egerton Christmas Piper, CH was a 20th-century English painter and printmaker. For much of his life he lived at Fawley Bottom in Buckinghamshire, near Henley-on-Thames.-Life:...
(1903–1992) - Cecil KennedyCecil Kennedy (artist)Cecil Kennedy , was a British artist best known for his highly detailed oil paintings of flowers. He was also known for including a ladybird or a bumblebee in his pictures....
(1905–1997) - Eliot HodgkinEliot HodgkinEliot Hodgkin was an English painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.Although he began with oil painting, most of his finest works were in tempera, specializing in highly detailed still lifes....
(1905-1987) - Emmy BridgwaterEmmy BridgwaterEmma Frith Bridgwater , known as Emmy Bridgwater, was an English artist and poet associated with the Surrealist movement....
(1906-1999) - Francis BaconFrancis Bacon (painter)Francis Bacon , was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds...
(1909–1992) - Henry Raeburn DobsonHenry Raeburn DobsonHenry Raeburn Dobson - also known as Raeburn Dobson - was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter from Edinburgh who was active in Edinburgh and Brussels from 1918/1920 until 1980. His father Henry John Dobson and his brother Cowan Dobson were genre and portrait painters...
(1901-1985) - Hermione HammondHermione HammondHermione Hammond was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II....
(1910–2005) - Joan HuttJoan HuttJoan Hutt was a British artist who spent most of her career in North Wales.-Early life:Joan Hutt was born on 16 September 1913 in Aspenden, Hertfordshire, England Her father, John Hutt MBE, was posted with the Ministry of Food in Malta at that time, but had sent his wife back to England to give...
(1913–1985) - John BridgemanJohn Bridgeman (sculptor)Arthur John Bridgeman ARCA, FRBS, FRBSA was an English sculptor.-Early life:Born in Felixstowe, Suffolk and named Arthur John, he was usually called 'Bridge' by his friends and signed himself John Bridgeman...
(1914–2004) - Sylvia MolloySylvia MolloySylvia Clark Molloy M.A., , was a British Realist and Impressionist artist and teacher.A graduate of Durham University, she lived abroad for much of her life - including many years in South Africa -returning to England in the mid 1960s.Her many paintings and sketches of the peoples of South Africa...
(1914–2008) - William GearWilliam GearWilliam Gear was a painter, born on 2 August 1915 in Methil in the south-east of Fife, Scotland. Born into a mining family, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art before travelling to Paris to study with Fernand Léger....
(1915–1997) - Leonora CarringtonLeonora CarringtonLeonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City.-Early life:...
(1917-2011) - Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) Born in Berlin, lived in Liverpool.
- John ChristoforouJohn ChristoforouJohn Christoforou is a British painter of Greek parents. He spent his childhood in Greece, but returned to England in 1938. With the outbreak of the war he joined the Royal Air Force, where he flew missions in the Far East....
(b. 1921) - Lucian FreudLucian FreudLucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
(1922-2011) - Patrick SwiftPatrick SwiftPatrick Swift was an artist born in Dublin, Ireland. Patrick Swift was a painter and key cultural figure in Dublin and London before moving to the Algarve in southern Portugal, where he is buried in the town of Porches...
(1927–1983) Born in Ireland - John PlumbJohn PlumbJohn Plumb was an English abstract painter who emerged in Britain after World War II. Plumb was born in Luton, and he went to the Byam Shaw School in London at the age of 20. He also studied at the Luton School of Art, and then the Central School in London with Victor Pasmore, and William Turnbull...
(1927–2008) - John CopnallJohn CopnallJohn Bainbridge Copnall 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 of Art and Design in London.- Early life :John Copnall was born in...
(1928–2007) - Adrian MorrisAdrian MorrisAdrian Grant Morris was an English painter. Following a successful retrospective exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in London in May/June, 2008, works were included in their mixed Autumn exhibition, 2009...
(1929-2004) - Norman Douglas HutchinsonNorman Douglas HutchinsonNorman Douglas Hutchinson was a British Royal painter, noted for his 1988 painting of Queen Elizabeth II.Hutchinson was born in Calcutta, India in 1932, the illegitimate son of Earl Eric Douglas, of Scottish Marquess of Queensberry lineage, and an Anglo-Indian maid, Florence. He grew up in an...
(b. 1932) - John HoylandJohn HoylandJohn Hoyland RA was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.-Life:...
(b. 1934) - Clive Madgwick (b 1934-2005)
- Ken KiffKen KiffKen Kiff, RA was a 20th century British painter.Kenneth Kiff studied at the Hornsey School of Art...
(1935–2001) - David HockneyDavid HockneyDavid Hockney, CH, RA, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London....
(b. 1937) - Tess JarayTess JarayTess Jaray RA is the painter who designed Centenary Square, Birmingham, England and the forecourt for the New British Embassy, Moscow.Her work is characterised by the enigmatic interaction of forms and colours...
(b. 1937) - Robert LenkiewiczRobert LenkiewiczRobert Oscar Lenkiewicz was one of the South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times. Perennially unfashionable in high art circles, his work was nevertheless popular with the public...
(1941–2002) - Sheila MullenSheila Mullen (artist)Sheila Mullen is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Scotland. She was born on 24 January 1942 in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up near Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. She attended the Glasgow School of Art and started painting professionally in 1978. Her works are in the permanent collections...
(b. 1942) - Ali Omar ErmesAli Omar ErmesAli Omar Ermes is an artist, writer and community activist. Having spent a period in Libya during which he wrote constantly and published in Arabic, he continues to write on various issues in both Arabic and English, but today his primary focus is on conference papers...
(b. 1945) - Winston Watson (b. 1945)
- John Wonnacott (b. 1940)
- Bruce McLeanBruce McLeanBruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966...
(b. 1944) - Jonathon CoudrilleJonathon CoudrilleJonathon Xavier Coudrille is an English artist, musician and writer. He was born in November 1945 on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, an area with which he is still closely associated. His father was the artist and ventriloquist Francis Coudrill...
(b. 1945) - Timothy HymanTimothy HymanTimothy Hyman is a British figurative painter, art writer and curator. A recognised authority on Sienese painting and the work of Pierre Bonnard, he has published acclaimed monographs on both subjects. He has written extensively on art and film, has been a regular contributor to the Times...
(b. 1946) - Edward KellyEdward Kelly (painter)Edward Kelly is a contemporary English painter.He was born in Liverpool, England in 1946. He studied at Liverpool College of Art between 1963–67, during which time he studied in Italy under a Joohn Moores Travel Scholarship...
(b. 1946) - Nicholas Hely HutchinsonNicholas Hely HutchinsonThe Honourable Nicholas Hely Hutchinson is a painter, based in Dorset. Initially influenced by Dufy and Matisse, and also drawing on the English NeoRomantic tradition. He settled near Blandford, Dorset, and the countryside of that county and Wiltshire, horse racing, interiors and still life were...
(b. 1950) - Roy PetleyRoy PetleyRoy Petley is a contemporary British artist renowned for his impressionist oil paintings. Petley paints en plein air, which is a French expression meaning "in the open air", to create his popular works that depict the wide expanse of English beaches and the gentle allure of Venetian landscapes...
(b. 1951) - Peter EdwardsPeter Edwards (artist)Peter Douglas Edwards, born 20 November 1955, British painter. Winner of the 1994 BP Portrait Award.- Early life and career :Peter Edwards was born in Chirk, North Wales, the son of Harry William Edwards, who came from a brewing family , and Annie May Williams, daughter of Allan Williams killed in...
(b. 1955) - Jo SelfJo SelfJo Self née Lee is an English contemporary artist, poet who specialises in often monumental oil paintings of flowers. In 2001-3 she painted in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where she was artist-in-residence in the Marianne North studio.-Background:Self was born and grew up on a Hertfordshire...
(b. 1956) - Michael Hickling (b. 1958)
- David Leapman (b. 1959)
- Ken Maycock (b. 1960)
- Guy DenningGuy DenningGuy Denning is a self taught English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group, a member of Stuckism International, and part of the urban art scene in Bristol.- Art :...
(b. 1965) - Damien HirstDamien HirstDamien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
(b. 1965) - Chantal JoffeChantal JoffeChantal Joffe is an English artist based in London. Her often large-scale paintings generally depict women and children. In 2006 she received the prestigious Charles Wollaston Award from the Royal Academy.-Life and education:...
(b. 1969) - BanksyBanksyBanksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...
(b. 1974?) - Stuart Pearson WrightStuart Pearson WrightStuart Pearson Wright is an award winning English artist who works mainly in paint. He was educated at Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London , where he graduated with honours, receiving a B.A. in Fine Art...
(b. 1975) - Will Teather (b. 1980)
- William Mark Coulthard (born 1961)