List of British painters

The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order).

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

English painters

Born 16th century

• George Gower (c. 1540–1596)
• Nicolas Hilliard (1547–1619)
• Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627)
• Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (1593–1661)
• Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) – born in Antwerp; Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• William Larkin (1580–1619)

Born 17th century

• Emmanuel de Critz (1608–1665)
• William Dobson (1610–1646)
• John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
• Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661)
• Oliver de Critz (1626–1651)
• Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713)
• Edward Bower (fl. 1635–1667)
• Henry Cooke (1642–1700)
• Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
• John Riley, or Ryley (1646–1691)
• Marmaduke Cradock (1660–1716)
• Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)
• Edward Byng (c. 1676–1753)
• Peter Monamy (1681–1749)
• John Wootton (1682–1764)
• Isaac Whood (1689–1752)
• Joseph Highmore (1692–1780)
• John Vanderbank (1694–1739)
• William Hogarth (1697–1764)

British painters

Born 18th century

• Thomas Hudson (1701–1779)
• Mary Hoare (1744–1820)
• William Hoare (c. 1707–1792)
• Francis Hayman (1708–1776)
• Sir William Beechey (1753–1839)
• John Shackleton (1714–1767) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III
• Richard Wilson (1714–1782)
• William Keable (1714–1774)
• Charles Brooking (1723–1759)
• Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• George Stubbs (1724–1806)
• Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
• Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807)
• Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – born in Frankfurt
• Peter Perez Burdett (c. 1734–1793)
• George Romney (1734–1802)
• Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
• Jeremiah Meyer (1735–1789)  – born in Tübingen
• Richard Wright (1735–c.1775)
• Amos Green (1735–1807) ^[1]
• Mary Benwell (1739–after 1800)
• John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779)
• Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – born in Zürich
• Matthew William Peters (1742–1814)
• Mary Moser (1744–1819)
• William Hodges (1744–1797)
• Henry Walton (1746–1813)
• William Tate (1747–1806)
• Richard Morton Paye (1751–1820)
• Joseph Barney (1753–1832)
• Charles Lewis (1753–1795) – still life painter
• Maria Bell (1755–1825)
• Prince Hoare the Younger (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
• Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755–1802) – of Jersey
• Thomas Stothard (1755–1834)
• Henry Bone (1755–1834)
• William Blake (1757–1827)
• Thomas Hardy (1757-1804)
• George William Sartorius (1759–1828)
• Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803)
• Sir Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• George Augustus Wallis (1761–1847)
• George Morland (1763–1804)
• Samuel Drummond (1766–1844)
• John Crome (1768–1821)
• Thomas Barker (1769–1847)
• James Ward (1769–1859)
• William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831)
• Edward Bird (1772–1819)
• Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774–1837)
• Thomas Girtin (1775–1802)
• Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
• John Constable (1776–1837)
• John Jackson (1778–1831)
• John Varley (1778–1842)
• William John Huggins (1781–1845), marine painter
• Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1854)
• John Sell Cotman (1782–1842)
• David Cox (1783–1859)
• Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1785–1854)
• Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)
• William Mulready (1786–1863)
• William Etty (1787–1849)
• John Martin (1789–1854)
• William Linton (1791–1876)
• Sir George Hayter (1792–1871) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen
• Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872)
• Francis Danby (1793–1861)
• Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859)
• Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860)
• Henry Collen (1797–1879)
• Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
• Joseph Stannard (1797–1830)
• Frederick Richard Lee (1798–1879)
• Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861)
• Samuel Atkins, marine painter

Born 19th century

Born 1800–1824

• John Hayter (1800–1895)
• Thomas Webster (1800–1886)
• James Digman Wingfield (1800-1872)
• Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
• Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
• John Scarlett Davis (1804–1845)
• Edwin Wilkins Field (1804–1871)
• William Knight Keeling (1807–1886)
• George Armfield ^[2] (1808–1893)
• Thomas Baker (1809–1864)
• William Edward Frost (1810–1877)
• James Peel (1811-1906)
• Henry Dawson (1811–1878)
• Ebenezer Colls (1812–1887)
• Richard Barnett Spencer (1812–1897)
• Thomas Musgrave Joy (1812–1866) ^[3]
• Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876)
• Harry Hall (c. 1814–1882)
• John Absolon (1815–1895)
• James Francis Danby (1816–1875)
• Augustus Egg (1816–1863)
• Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879)
• Henry Mark Anthony (1817–1886)
• Branwell Brontë (1817–1848)
• Richard Dadd (1817–1886)
• Thomas Danby (1817–1886)
• John Callcott Horsley (1817–1903)
• John Phillip (1817–1867)
• George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
• Margaret Backhouse (1818–1888)
• Louisa Beresford (1818–1891)
• John Anster Fitzgerald (c. 1819–1906)
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
• James Sant (1820–1916)
• Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893)
• Charles Elder (1821–1851)
• Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901)
• James Smetham (1821–1889)
• Thomas Holroyd (1821–1904)
• Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893)
• Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
• George Hardy (1822–1909)
• William Simpson (1823–1899)
• William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916)
• Martha Darley Mutrie (1824–1885)
• Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910)

Born 1825–1849

• Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916)
• Annie Feray Mutrie (1826–1893)
• David Cooke Gibson (1827–1856)
• Frederick Daniel Hardy (1827–1911)
• William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
• John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882)
• George Bernard O'Neill (1828–1917)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
• Anna Blunden (1829–1915)
• John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897)
• John Finnie (1829–1907)
• Edwin Long (1829–1890)
• John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
• John Samuel Raven (1829–1877)
• Lord Frederick Leighton (1830–1896)
• Helen Mabel Trevor (1831–1900)
• Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
• Louise Rayner (1832–1924)
• Henrietta Ward (1832–1924)
• George Henry Boughton (1833–1905)
• Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898)
• Benjamin Williams Leader (1833–1921)
• Frederic Shields (1833–1911)
• William Morris (1834–1896)
• Emily Mary Osborn (1834–1913)
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – born in Dronrijp
• John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
• Walter Field (1837–1901)
• Charles Stuart (1838–1907)
• Walter Goodman (1838–1912)
• Horatio Joseph Lucas (1839-1873)
• Charles Edward Perugini (1839–1918)
• Kate Perugini (1839–1929)
• John Clayton Adams (1840–1906)
• Philip Augustus Barnard (1840–1884)
• Albert Joseph Moore (1841–1893)
• Edith Martineau (1842–1909)
• Edwin Ellis (1842–1895)
• Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922)
• Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – marine painter
• Clara Montalba (1842–1929)
• Herbert William Weekes (c. 1842–unknown)
• Louise Jopling (1843–1933)
• Bernard Walter Evans (1843–1922)
• Isabel Dacre (1844–1933)
• Tristram Ellis (1844–1922)
• Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904)
• Frances C. Fairman (1839–1923)
• Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927)
• Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933)
• Edith Gittins (1845–1910)
• Louisa Starr (1845–1909)
• Edith Corbet (1846–1920)
• Walter Greaves (1846–1930)
• Kate Greenaway (1846–1901)
• William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919)
• Ellis Rowan (1847–1922)
• Helen Allingham (1848–1926)
• Helen Thornycroft (1848–1937)
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
• John Reinhard Weguelin (1849–1927)
• William Thornley (fl. 1858–1898)

Born 1850–1874

• Walter Daniel Batley (1850–1936)
• John Collier (1850–1934)
• Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914)
• Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909)
• George Clausen (1852–1944)
• Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (1852–1944)
• Charles Napier Kennedy (1852–1898)
• Walter Langley (1852–1922)
• Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)
• Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
• Alfred Robert Quinton (1853–1934)
• Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854–1929)
• Caroline Gotch (1854–1945)
• Frank Markham Skipworth (1854–1929)
• George Paice (1854–1925)
• Edward Wilkins Waite (1854–1924)
• Sara Page (1855–1943)
• Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)
• Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
• Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)
• Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893)
• Jane Mary Dealy, Lady Lewis (1856–1939)
• Alice Hirschberg (1856–1913)
• Joseph Vickers de Ville (1856–1925)
• William Wells Quatremain (1857–1930)
• William Stott-of-Oldham (1857–1900)
• Arthur Melville (1858–1904)
• Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929)
• George Henry (1858–1943)
• Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes (1859–1912)
• Henrietta Rae (1859–1928)
• Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940)
• Lewis Charles Powles (1860–1942)
• Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951)
• Margaret Bernadine Hall (1863–1910)
• George Phoenix (1863–1935)
• Arthur Wardle (1864–1949)
• Arthur Lowe (1865–1940)
• John Guille Millais (1865–1931)
• Louise Pickard (1865–1928)
• Charles Spencelayh (1865–1958)
• Milly Childers (1866–1922)
• Mary Davis, Lady Davis (1866–1941)
• Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1940)
• Roger Fry (1866–1934)
• Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
• Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) – born in Brussels
• Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – born in Bruges
• Percy Robertson (1868–1934)
• Ursula Wood (1868–1925)
• Mary Baylis Barnard (1870–1946)
• Mary McEvoy (1870–1941)
• Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898)
• Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
• William Heath Robinson (1872–1944)
• Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1932)
• Alexander Scott (1872–1932)
• William Nicholson (1872–1949)
• Louie Burrell (1873–1971)
• Amy Drucker (1873–1951) ^[4]
• Arthur Miles Moss (1873-1948) ^[5]
• Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942)
• Isabel Codrington (1874–1943)

Born 1875–1899

• Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
• Madge Oliver (1875–1924)
• Sophie Atkinson (1876–1972)
• Winifred Austen (1876–1964)
• Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers (1876–1939)
• Gwen John (1876–1939)
• Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
• Laura Knight (1877–1970)
• Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967)
• Walter Ernest Webster (1877–1959)
• Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960)
• Eliza Mary Burgess (1878–1961)
• May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878–1943)
• Augustus John (1878–1961)
• Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
• Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966)
• John Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954) ^[6]
• Anna Airy (1882–1964)
• Gladys Kathleen Bell (1882–1965)
• Teresa Copnall (1882–1972)
• Helen Edwards (1882–1963)
• Richard Howard Penton (1882–1960)
• Eleanor Hughes (1882–1952)
• Averil Burleigh (1883–1949)
• Montague Birrell Black 1884-1964)
• John Currie (1884–1914)
• Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)
• Louisa Puller (1884–1963)
• Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976)
• Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
• Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934)
• Evelyn Abelson (1886–1967)
• Mary Jewels (1886–1977)
• James Ardern Grant (1887–1973)
• Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
• Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller (1887–1979)
• Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950)
• Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
• Paul Cranfield Smyth (1888–1963)
• Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960)
• Nora Cundell (1889–1948)
• Paul Nash (1889–1946)
• Cedric Morris (1889–1982)
• Marlow Moss (1889-1958)
• Sir Henry Rushbury (1889–1968)
• Ruth Simpson (1889–1964)
• David Bomberg (1890-1957)
• Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925)
• Leon Underwood (1890–1975)
• Grace English (1891–1956)
• Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
• Dora Carrington (1893–1932)
• Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968)
• Cowan Dobson (1894–1980)
• Kaff Gerrard (1894–1970)
• Meredith Frampton (1894–1984)
• Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
• Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)
• Henry George Hoyland (1895-1947)
• Harry Bateman (1896–1976)
• George Bissill (1896–1973)
• Leila Faithfull (1896–1994)
• Billie Waters (1896–1979)
• Dorothy Coke (1897–1979)
• Hans Feibusch (1898–1998) – born in Frankfurt, resided in England 1934–1998
• Winifred Knights (1899–1947)
• Rose Henriques (1889–1972)
• Francis Helps (1890–1972)

Unknown year, born 19th century

• Edward Pritchett (fl. 1828–1864)
• Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879)
• Sara Macgregor (d. 1919)

Born 20th century

Born 1900–1949

• George Lambourn (1900–1977)
• Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
• John Mansbridge (1901–1981)
• Marjorie May Bacon (1902–1988)
• Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
• Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
• John Melville (1902–1986)
• Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998)
• John Piper (1903–1992)
• Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
• Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
• Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
• Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
• Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
• Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
• George Fisher Gilmour (1904–1984)
• J. Edward Smith (1905–1986) ^[7]
• Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
• Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
• Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997)
• Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999)
• Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
• Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
• Clifford Ellis (1907–1985)
• Frank Egginton (1908–1990)
• Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
• Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
• Mildred Eldridge (1909–1991)
• Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
• Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956)
• Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
• John Bensusan-Butt (1911–1997)
• John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
• Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
• Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
• Fay Pomerance (1912–2001)
• Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
• Leonard Appelbee (1914–2000)
• John Bridgeman (1914–2004)
• Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008)
• Doris Blair (born 1915)
• Terry Frost (1915–2003)
• William Gear (1915–1997)
• Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
• Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)
• Michael Kidner (1917–2009)
• Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
• Eden Box (1919–1988)
• Francis Davison (1919–1984)
• Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
• Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) – born in Berlin; lived in Liverpool
• Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
• John Christoforou (1921–2014)
• John Craxton (1922–2009)
• Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
• Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
• Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
• Paul Bird (1923–1993)
• Peter Folkes (1923–2019)
• Martin Froy (1926–2017)
• Eric Rimmington (1926–2024)
• Ann Thetis Blacker (1927–2006)
• Peter Brook (1927–2009)
• John Plumb (1927–2008)
• Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
• John Copnall (1928–2007)
• Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995)
• Adrian Morris (1929–2004)
• Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)
• Mardi Barrie (1930–2004)
• Robyn Denny (1930–2014)
• Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959) – born in Germany
• Frank Auerbach (1931–2024) – born in Germany
• Martin Bradley (1931–2023)
• Ken Messer (1931–2018)
• Bridget Riley (born 1931)
• Peter Blake (born 1932)
• Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
• Moira Huntly (born 1932)
• Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010)
• Marc Vaux (born 1932)
• Alexander Goudie (1933–2004)
• Dennis Roy Hodds (1933–1987)
• John Hoyland (1934–2011)
• Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
• Ivor Davies (born 1935)
• Ken Kiff (1935–2001)
• Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
• Timothy Behrens (1937–2017)
• David Hockney (born 1937)
• Tess Jaray (born 1937)
• Bryan Organ (born 1935)
• Margot Perryman (born 1938)
• William Tillyer (born 1938)
• Mario Dubsky (1939–1985)
• John Wonnacott (born 1940)
• Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
• Sheila Mullen (born 1942)
• Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
• Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944)
• Claire Dalby (born 1944)
• Bruce McLean (born 1944)
• Jonathon Coudrille (born 1945)
• P. J. Crook (born 1945)
• Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
• David Imms (born 1945)
• Sean Scully (born 1945) – born in Dublin; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad.
• Timothy Hyman (born 1946)
• Tony Foster (born 1946)
• Edward Kelly (born 1946)
• John Virtue (born 1947)
• Howard J. Morgan (1949–2020)
• Terance James Bond (1946–2023)

Born 1950–1999

• Cherryl Fountain (born 1950)
• Braaq (1951-1997)
• Roy Petley (born 1951)
• Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952-2012)
• Jeremy Henderson (1952-2009)
• Brian Clarke (born 1953)
• Shani Rhys James (born 1953)
• Deirdre Hyde (born 1953)
• Charlotte Verity (born 1954)
• Vivien Blackett (born 1955)
• Peter Edwards (born 1955)
• Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955)
• Jo Self (born 1956)
• Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
• John O'Carroll (born 1958)
• Peter Doig (born 1959)
• Claudette Johnson (born 1959)
• David Leapman (born 1959)
• Ian Davenport (born 1960)
• Nick Fudge (born 1960)
• Keith Piper (born 1960)
• Sonia Boyce (born 1962)
• Gary Hume (born 1962)
• Tod Hanson (born 1963)
• Guy Denning (born 1965)
• Damien Hirst (born 1965)
• George Shaw (born 1966)
• Chris Ofili (born 1968)
• Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
• Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
• Banksy (born c. 1974)
• Tom Palin (born 1974)
• Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975)
• Idris Khan (born 1978)
• Kate Groobey (born 1979)
• David Wightman (born 1980)
• Seb Toussaint (born 1988)
• Bianca Raffaella (born 1992)
• Rachel G. Patrick (born 1993)

Unknown year, born 20th century

• Freya Douglas-Morris
• Charles Harris

See also

• Biography portal
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• British art
• English school of painting
• List of British artists

External links

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

References

1. William Upcott, English Topography; Dodd, MS. History of English Engravers, British Library Add MS 33401
2. George Armfield paintings, BBC Your Paintings. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
3. Joy, Thomas Musgrave, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
4. "For He had Great Possessions". Ben Uri: 100 Years in London.
5. Westmorland Gazette: 'The Amazon Chaplaincy', November 6, 1926
6. "John Hodgson Lobley (1878–1954)". Brown University Library, Center for Digital Initiatives.
7. Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1947 catalogue, pp. 28, 29; Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1948 catalogue p. 28; The Royal Society of Marine Artists 1975 (1 painting), 1976 (2 paintings), and 1977 (2 paintings); 20th Century British Marine Painting, by Denys Brook-Hart, 1981, ISBN 0 902028 90 1, Plate 167, p. 258, "Honfleur".