Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
Frank Cadogan Cowper was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical, and literary scenes, described as "The last of the Pre-Raphaelites".
John Northcote Nash was a British painter of landscapes and still-lives, and a wood engraver and illustrator, particularly of botanic works. He was the younger brother of the artist Paul Nash.
Edward Hargitt was a Scottish ornithologist and landscape painter.
Edward Robert Hughes 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 with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and worked closely with one of the Brotherhood's founders, William Holman Hunt.
Paresh Maity is an Indian painter. He is a prolific painter in a short career span.
Norman Wilkinson was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War.
The RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition is nationwide competition promoting the art of painting in water-based media.
Francis Towne 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 the early 20th century onwards.
Harold Speed was an English painter in oil and watercolour of portraits, figures and historical subjects. He also wrote instructional books for artists that remain in print.
Herbert Menzies Marshall was an English watercolour painter and illustrator, and earlier in life a cricket player.
The Allied Artists Association (AAA) was an art exhibiting society based in London in the early 20th century.
Edward Duncan was a British watercolourist known for his depictions of coastal views and shipping. He was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society and received Royal patronage from Queen Victoria.
June Berry is a British artist, originally from Melbourne in Derbyshire.
Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton was a British watercolour and oil painter, predominantly of landscapes. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in November 1913, elected a full Royal Academician in 1920 and knighted in 1923. He was an Officier l’ordre Leopold II and a member of the Royal Watercolour Society from 1909 or 1915 and its President from 1920 until 1936.
Nigel Cox is an Irish figurative artist.
Carl Randall is a British figurative painter, whose work is based on images of modern Japan and London.
Jonathan Huxley is a British artist whose paintings and murals depict illusions of human figures in motion.
James Fletcher-Watson was a British watercolourist and architect.
