List of British artists

This is a partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically (artists born in the same year should be arranged alphabetically within that year).

Born before 1700

Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Christina of Denmark, c. 1538. Oil and tempera on oak, National Gallery, London.

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1520–c.1590) – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century
George Gower (1540–1596) – English portrait painter
Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) – English goldsmith, limner, portrait miniature painter
Rowland Lockey (c.1565–1616) – English goldsmith, portrait miniaturist, painter
Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617) – French-born English portrait miniature painter
Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) – Flemish Baroque painter, watercolourist and etcher who became court painter in England
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) – Czech etcher
Samuel Cooper (c.1608–1672) – English miniature painter
John Michael Wright (1617–1694) – British baroque portrait painter
Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England
Francis Barlow (c.1626–1704) – English painter, etcher, and illustrator
David Loggan (1635–1692) – English baroque painter, born in Danzig
Godfrey Kneller (1646/9–1723) – portrait painter in England
Edward Pierce (1630–1695)
Francis Place (1647–1728) – English potter and engraver
James Thornhill (1675–1734) – English painter of historical subjects
Jonathan Richardson (1665–1745) – English portrait painter
Peter Monamy (1681–1749) – English marine painter
John Wootton (1682–1764) – English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes
Pieter Andreas Rysbrack (1685 or 1690–1748) – Flemish painter working in London
John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) – Flemish sculptor working in London
John Vanderbank (1694–1739) – English portrait painter and book illustrator
William Hogarth (1697–1764) – English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist

Born 1700–1799

J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, National Gallery

Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, 1770

William Blake, Newton (1795)

Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865) – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects.
Louis-François Roubiliac (1702/5–1762) – French sculptor whose works reside in Westminster Abbey
Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter
James Seymour (c.1702–1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art
William Hoare (c.1707–1792) – English painter especially of pastels
Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
Arthur Devis (c.1712–1787) – English portrait painter, especially of conversation pieces and other small portraits
Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) – Scottish portrait painter
Richard Wilson (1713–1782) – Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy
Alexander Cozens (c.1717–1786) – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting
Charles Brooking (1723–1759) – English painter
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – English painter specialising in portraits
George Stubbs (1724–1806) – British painter especially of horses
James Lambert (1725–1788) – English landscape painter
Francis Cotes (1726–1770) – English painter
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) – English portrait and landscape painter
Paul Sandby (1730–1809) – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) – English animal painter
Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England
George Romney (1734–1802) – English portrait painter
Joseph Wright (1734–1797) – English landscape and portrait painter
Alexander Runciman (1736–1785) – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects
Mary Black (c.1737–1814) – English portrait painter
Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823) – sculptor from London
Francis Towne (1739/40–1816) – English watercolour painter
Angelica Kauffman (1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter
Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) – English artist of French origin
William Marlow (1740–1813) – English landscape and marine artist
John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings
Matthew William Peters (1742–1814) English portrait painter
James Barry (1741–1806) – Irish painter
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin
Richard Cosway (1742–1821) – English portrait painter, miniaturist
Ozias Humphry (1742–1810) – English painter of portrait miniatures
John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes
Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist
Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver
Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter
Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) – English artist and caricaturist
William Blake (1757–1827) – English poet, painter, and printmaker
Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840) – Scottish portrait and landscape painter
Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) – English portrait painter
Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – English painter, mostly of portraits
Charles Fairfield (1761?–1805) – English painter, mostly known as a copyist
John Charles Felix Rossi (1762–1839) – sculptor
Arthur William Devis (1762–1822) – English painter of history paintings and portraits
George Morland (1763–1804) – English painter of animals and rustic scenes
Joshua Cristall (1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter
John Crome (1768–1821) – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters
James Ward (1769–1859) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) – English portrait and subject painter
Henry James Richter (1772–1857) – engraver and painter
François Hüet Villiers (1772–1813) – French-born portrait painter, resident in London
Anne Frances Byrne (1775–1837) – painter of flowers and still lifes
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) – English painter, watercolourist, and etcher
Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet (1775–1852) – painter of landscapes and horses
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) – English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
John Constable (1776–1837) – English Romantic painter
John Higton (1776–1827) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820) – painter of religious subjects
John Masey Wright (1777–1866) – watercolour painter
John Varley (1778–1842) – English watercolour painter and astrologer
Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844) – English landscape painter
Samuel Colman (1780–1845) – English painter
James Holworthy (1781–1841) – watercolour painter
John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) – artist of the Norwich school, mainly in watercolour
Frederick Nash (painter) (1782–1856) – architectural and landscape painter
David Cox (1783–1859) – English landscape painter
Samuel Prout (1783–1852) – English watercolour painter
Peter De Wint (1784–1849) – English landscape painter
John Romney (1785–1863) – mainly printmaking and watercolour
David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Scottish painter
William Mulready (1786–1863) – Irish genre painter living in London
Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) – English historical painter and writer
Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831) – Scottish landscape painter
John Martin (1789–1854) – English painter
William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) – English watercolor painter
George Hayter (1792–1871) English painter, specialising in portraits
John Linnell (1792–1882) – English landscape painter
Francis Danby (1793–1861) – Irish painter
Edward Calvert (1799–1883) – English printmaker and painter
James Holland (1799–1870) – landscape painter and illustrator
David Ogborne (died 1800/1) – English painter of events and curiosities in Essex
Eglington Margaret Pearson (died 1823) – stained glass painter
Cosmo Armstrong (died 1847) – English line-engraver.

Born 1800–1899

Augustus Leopold Egg, The Travelling Companions, 1862

John Ruskin by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, 1853–1854, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) – English Romantic landscape painter
Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873) – English painter and sculptor especially of animals, particularly horses, dogs and stags
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) – English watercolor painter
Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals
John Steell (1804–1891) – Scottish sculptor
John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) – Orientalist English painter
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
William Dyce (1806–1864) – Scottish artist
John Greville Fennell (1807-1885) – landscape painter
Arthur Elliot (1809–1892) – British watercolourist
Thomas Mogford (1809–1868) – English portrait painter and landscape painter
James John Hill (1811–1882) – English painter
Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) – English painter
Lucette Barker (1816–1905) – English painter
William James Blacklock (1816–1858) – English landscape artist, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders
Edward Armitage (1817–1896) – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects
Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes
Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
Alfred Tippinge (1817–1898) – British Grenadier Guard who sent home paintings of the Crimean War
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) – English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement
Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer
William Hemsley (1819–1906) – English genre painter; vice president of the Society of British Artists
William Powell Frith (1819–1909) – English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives
George Gammon Adams (1821–1898)- English sculptor and medallist
Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) – English painter of moral and historical subjects
Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893) – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America
Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910) – Anglo-Irish artist
Frederick Goodall (snr) (1822–1904) – English artist specialising in oriental scenes
Frederick William Keyl (1823–1871) – German-born British painter of animals
Charles Davidson (1824–1902) – English watercolour painter
Henry Alexander Bowler (1824–1903) – English painter and academic
Abraham Solomon (1824–1862) – English painter
Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet
Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – English educationalist and landscape artist
William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) – British painter, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828–1907) – English watercolour artist and illustrator
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
Anna Blunden (1829–1915) – English painter
James Docharty (1829–1878) – Scottish landscape painter
Edwin Long (1829–1890) – English orientalist painter, depicting Biblical and Middle Eastern subjects
John Everett Millais (1829–1896) – English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
John Henry Dell (1830–1888) – English painter and illustrator
Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896) – English painter
Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) – English painter and sculptor especially of historical, biblical and classical subject matter
Charles James Lewis (1830–1892) – English painter in oils and watercolours
Marianne North (1830–1890) – English naturalist and flower painter
Walter Severn (1830–1904) – English watercolourist
John William Bailey (1831–1914) – British miniature painter
Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923) – English painter
Louise Rayner (1832–1924) – English watercolourist
Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) – English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910) – Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects
Daniel Charles Grose (1832–1900) – English painter
Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) – English artist and designer
Joseph Clark (1834–1926), English oil painter of domestic scenes
William Morris (1834–1896) – English artist, writer, and socialist
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) – American-born, British-based painter and etcher
Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906) – English painter of churches and cathedrals
William McTaggart (1835–1910) – Scottish landscape painter
Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875) – British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) – English painter especially of landscapes
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – British classical-subject painter
James Tissot (1836–1902) – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects
Horatio Joseph Lucas (1839-1873), English artist
Simeon Solomon (1840–1905) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter
Frederick Walker (1840–1875) – English Social Realist 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 (1841–1916) – British artist specializing in genre works
Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – British marine painter and watercolourist
William John Seward Webber (1842–1919), English sculptor
Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894) – English painter and watercolourist
Walter Crane (1845–1915) – English artist and book illustrator
Frank Holl (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 (1848–1913) – English realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator
John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter especially of female characters from mythology and literature
Henry Richard Hope-Pinker (1850–1927) – English sculptor
John Collier (1850–1934) – British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style
Robert Weir Allan (1851–1942) – Glasgow born painter of landscape and marine subjects
John Charles Dollman (1851–1934) – English narrative, landscape and animal painter
Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914) – English painter in a Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism style
Edmund Leighton (1853–1922) – English painter in Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic styles
Frank Dicksee (1853–1928) – English Victorian painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes
Maude Goodman (1853–1938) (a.k.a. Matilda Scanes) – English Victorian fine art painter and children's book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings
Caroline Gotch (1854–1945) – English painter associated with the Newlyn School of artists
Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) – English painter
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) – Cornish fisherman and artist
David Winder (1855–1933) – Bolton, Lancashire-born British artist; oil and watercolour
James Pittendreigh MacGillivray (1856–1938) – Scottish sculptor
Alfred William Rich (1856–1921) – English landscape artist
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) – Expatriate American living in England; leading portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolorist
Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes
Joseph Benwell Clark (1857–1938) – English landscape painter and book illustrator
Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947) – British artist, founder of the Newlyn School
Arthur Hacker (1858–1919) – English classicist painter
Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929) – English painter who lived in Cornwall, best known for his maritime paintings and male nudes
Walter Sickert (1860–1942) – English Impressionist painter
Solomon Joseph Solomon (1860–1927) – English painter of mythological scenes and portraits
Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942) – English artist
Harriet Isabel Adams (1863–1952) – British artist and illustrator
Lily Delissa Joseph (1863–1940) – English painter
Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864–1898) – church decorative artist
Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864–1950) – Scottish painter
Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) – English painter
William Edwin Pimm (1864–1952) – British artist, oil and watercolours
Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864–1930) – English painter
Arthur Lowe (painter) (1865–1940) – English landscape artist from Kinoulton, Nottingham
Robert Bevan (1865–1925) – British painter
H. Gustave Hiller (1865–1946) – mainly of stained glass
Roger Fry (1866–1934) – English artist and art critic
Henry Charles Fehr (1867–1940) – English sculptor
Norah Fulcher (1867–1945), English watercolour portrait artist
Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer
J M Balliol Salmon (1868–1953) – British painter
Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954) – English painter
Ursula Wood (1868–1925) – English painter
Lamorna Birch (1869–1955) – English painter
Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958) – English equine artist
Henry Crocket (1870–1926) – landscape painter
William Ratcliffe (1870–1955) – English artist
Phelan Gibb (1870–1948) – British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910–1914
Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871–1958) – Scottish artist
Florence Engelbach (1872–1951) – English painter born in Spain
Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) – English artist and illustrator
William Nicholson (1872–1949) – English painter, illustrator and author of children's books
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) – English illustrator and author especially of erotic illustrations
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945) – English artist and illustrator
Louie Burrell (1873–1971) – English painter
Francis William Doyle Jones (1873–1938) – English sculptor
Isabel Codrington (1874–1943) – English painter
John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961) – Scottish artist, one of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
Hilda May Gordon (1874–1972) – British watercolourist
Frank O. Salisbury (1874–1962) – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works
Dorothea Sharp (1874–1955) – British landscape painter
Eleanor Best (1875–1957) – portrait and figure painter
Evelyn Cheston (1875–1929) – English landscape painter
Alice Kirkby Goyder (1875–1964) – English painter and etcher
Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970) – English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits, and industrial paintings
Henry Bates Joel (1875–1922) – English landscape painter
Margaret Fisher Prout (1875–1963) – English painter
Walter Dexter (1876–1958) – English oil and watercolour artist, particularly of Norfolk
Harold Gilman (1876–1919) – English artist and founder-member of the Camden Town Group
Gwen John (1876–1939) – Welsh artist
Horace Tuck (1876–1951) – Norfolk artist of oil and watercolour landscapes
Florence Mabel Hollams (1877–1963) – painter of dogs and horses
Laura Knight (1877–1970) – British artist
Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958) – English artist
Donald Maxwell (1877–1936) – English illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours
Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960) – English sculptor and painter
Denis Eden (1878–1949) – painter and illustrator
Charles Ginner (1878–1952) – French-born painter, member of Camden Town Group
Spencer Gore (1878–1914) – British painter who was first president of the Camden Town Group
Augustus John (1878–1961) – Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher
Louis Frederick Roslyn (1878–1940) – English sculptor
Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (1878–1959) – English artist, particularly renowned for equine subject matter
Ada Hill Walker (1879–1955) – scientific illustrator and artist
William Reid Dick (1879–1961) – Scottish sculptor
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) – English painter and interior designer
Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966) – English landscape painter
Matthew Smith (1879–1959) – English painter
Malcolm Drummond (1880–1945) – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture
Elsie Henderson (1880–1967) – English painter and sculptor
Harry Morley (1881–1943) – English painter
Eric Gill (1882–1940) – British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker
Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) – English painter and author
Henry Lamb (1883–1960) – Australian-born British painter
Victoria Monkhouse (1883–1970) – English painter
Arthur Watts (1883–1935) – illustrator
Montague Birrell Black (1884-1964) – English illustrator and painter
Elinor Proby Adams (1885–1945) – English painter
Duncan Grant (1885–1978) – Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group
Gwen Raverat (1885–1957) – English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers
Randolph Schwabe (1885–1948) – English artist
Joseph Hermon Cawthra (1886–1971) – English sculptor
Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (1886–1911) – English painter
Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) – English artist and occultist
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) – English artist
Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950) – English artist and theatre designer
Arthur James F. Bond (1888–1958) – English painter of maritime subjects
Sydney Carline (1888–1929) – English artist
David Dougal Williams (June 1888–28 September 1944) – British artist and art teacher
Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter
Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970) – English painter
Robert Gibbings (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 (1889–1946) – English painter and vorticist
Ruth Simpson (1889–1964) – English portrait painter
Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) – English artist
David Bomberg (1890–1957) – English painter and one of the Whitechapel Boys
Charles Cundall (1890–1971) – English painter
Joseph Gray (1890–1963) – English painter
Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) – Welsh artist and writer
Francis Helps (1890–1972) – English artist
Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890–1978) – English artist
Iain Macnab (1890–1967) – Scottish painter
Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) – English painter
Leon Underwood (1890–1975) – British sculptor, painter, and engraver
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915) – French sculptor and vorticist
Mark Gertler (1891–1939) – British portrait and landscape painter
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) – English painter
Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891–1966) – English portrait painter
Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975) – German born British sculptor
Colin Gill (1892–1940) – English painter
Gilbert Spencer (1892–1978) – British painter
Harold Sandys Williamson (1892–1978) – British painter
John Armstrong (1893–1973) – British artist
John Nash (1893–1977) – English painter, illustrator, and engraver
Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) – English painter
Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) – English painter and etcher
Leonard Squirrell (1893–1979) – English watercolourist and etcher
Henry Matthew Talintyre (1893–1962) – British artist
Flora Twort (1893–1985) – English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels
Henry Carr (1894–1970) – British painter
Meredith Frampton (1894–1984) – British artist
Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) – Cornish painter
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) – English abstract painter
Dora Clarke (1895–1989) – English sculptor
David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet
William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist
Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) – British artist
Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) – British artist
Harry Barr (1896-1987) – English painter
John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) – New Zealand born illustrator
Harold Williamson (1898–1972) – British painter, designer, etcher and teacher
Henry Moore (1898–1986) – English artist and sculptor
Rodney Joseph Burn (1899–1984) – English artist
Winifred Knights (1899–1947) – English painter

Born 1900–1949

Joseph Mellor Hanson (1900–1963)
Ursula Edgcumbe (1900–1985)
Barbara Greg (1900–1983)
George Lambourn (1900–1977)
Roland Penrose (1900–1984)
Harold Tamblyn-Watts (1900–1999)
Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983)
Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
Ancell Stronach (1901–1981) – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art
Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
Jean Clark (1902–1999)
Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
Aileen Eagleton (1902–1984)
Simon Elwes (1902–1975)
Robin Guthrie (1902–1971)
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
Ray Howard-Jones (1903–1996)
Charles Mahoney (1903–1968)
John Piper (1903–1992)
Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
Richard Eurich (1903–1992)
Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
Albert Houthuesen (1903–1979)
Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
Peggy Angus (1904–1993)
Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
Stephen Bone (1904–1958)
Evan Charlton (1904–1984)
Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
Reg Bunn (1905–1971)
Edward Burra (1905–1976)
Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981)
Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
Morris Kestelman (1905–1998)
Kenneth Martin (1905–1984)
Robert Medley (1905–1994)
Vernon Ward (1905–1985)
Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
Kathleen Allen (1906–1983)
Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960)
Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
Joan Hassall (1906–1988)
Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
Kenneth Steel (1906–1970)
Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998)
Phyllis Ginger (1907–2005)
James McIntosh Patrick (1907–1998) – Scottish landscape painter
Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye (1907–2005)
Claude Rogers (1907–1979)
William Coldstream (1908–1987)
Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
Norman Hepple (1908–1994)
Victor Pasmore (1908–1998)
Stella Schmolle (1908–1975)
Carel Weight (1908–1997)
Francis Bacon (1909–1992) – born in Ireland
Dorothea Braby (1909–1987)
Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
Leonard Daniels (1909–1998)
Paul Lucien Dessau (1909–1999)
Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976)
Gwynneth Holt (1909–1995) – ivory sculptor
Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)
Eric Taylor (1909–1999)
Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
Pamela Drew (1910–1989)
Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)
Rodrigo Moynihan (1910–1990)
Rosemary Allan (1911–2008)
Phyllis Bray (1911–1991)
John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
Nicolette Macnamara (1911–1987)
Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
Andrew Freeth (1912–1986)
Erlund Hudson (1912–2011)
Georgina Hunt (1912–2012)
Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)
Reg Butler (1913–1981)
Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
Joan Hutt (1913–1985)
Leonard Rosoman (1913–2012)
Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)
Harold Hitchcock (1914–2009)
Frances Macdonald (1914–2002)
Charles Mozley (1914–1991)
Frank Roper (1914–2000) – sculptor
Doris Blair (born 1915)
Mary Fedden (1915–2012)
Dennis Flanders (1915–1994)
Wendy F. Walsh (1915–2014) – illustrator and botanical artist
Norman Whitehead (1915–1983)
Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
John Bridgeman (1916–2004)
Margaret Thomas (1916–2016) – painter
James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)
John Kashdan (1917–2001)
Anthony Robert Klitz (1917–2000)
John Minton (1917–1957)
Mona Moore (1917–2000)
Estella Campavias (1918–1990)
John Kyffin Williams (1918–2006)
Peter Lanyon (1918–1964)
Richard Vicary (1918–2006) – printmaker
Eden Box (1918–1988)
Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
Norman Cornish (1919–2014)
Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
Cliff Holden (1919–2020)
Peter Wright (1919–2003)
Michael Ford (1920–2005)
Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
Robert Tavener (1920–2004)
Françoise Taylor (1920–2007) – born in Belgium, British by marriage
Derek Chittock (1922–1986)
Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
Eduardo Paolozzi (1922–2005)
Miles Richmond (1922–2008)
Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
William McLaren (1923–1987)
Anthony Caro (1924–2013)
Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)
Erich von Götha de la Rosière (born 1924)
Keith Sutton (1924–1991)
Beryl Cook (1926–2008)
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
Michael Edmonds (1926–2014)
Leon Kossoff (1926–2019)
Edna Mann (1926–1985)
Tom McGuinness (1926–2006)
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
Greta Tomlinson (1927–2021)
Michael Andrews (1928–1995)
John Copnall (1928–2007)
Dora Holzhandler (1928–2015) – born in Paris to Polish parents but lived in London
Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995)
Dorothy Mead (1928–1975)
Joe Tilson (born 1928)
John Scanes (1928–2004)
Victor Willing (1928–1988)
Barbara Balmer (1929–2017)
Zelda Nolte (1929–2003)
Fred Cuming (1930-2022)
Mardi Barrie (1930–2004)
Robyn Denny (1930–2014)
David Gentleman (born 1930)
Donald Pass (1930–2010)
Frank Auerbach (born 1931)
Dennis Creffield (1931–2018)
Ken Messer (1931–2018)
Malcolm Morley (1931–2018) – first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984
Bridget Riley (born 1931)
Valerie Thornton (1931–1991)
Audrey Barker (1932–2002)
Peter Blake (born 1932)
Nina Carroll (1932–1990)
Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) – royal painter
Ken Howard (1932–2022)
R. B. Kitaj (1932–2007) – born in the United States
Euan Uglow (1932–2000)
Marc Vaux (born 1932)
Ian Weatherhead (born 1932)
Richard Allen (1933–1999)
John Furnival (1933–2020) – artist of visual and concrete poetry
Charles Lutyens (1933–2021) – painter, sculptor, and mosaicist
Norman Perryman (born 1933)
Vincent Haddelsey (1934–2010)
John Hoyland (1934–2011)
Colin Jones (born 1934) – systems artist
Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
Garth Evans (born 1934) – sculptor
Rose Wylie (born 1934) – painter
Paula Rego (1935–2022) – born in Portugal
Frank Bowling (born 1936)
Tony Foster (born 1936) – painter
Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
David Hall (1937–2014)
David Hockney (born 1937)
Allen Jones (born 1937)
Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
Pamela Scott Wilkie (born 1937)
Margot Perryman (born 1938)
Carole Steyn (born 1938)
William Tillyer (born 1938)
Terry Atkinson (born 1939)
Rose Frain (born 1939)
Anthony Green (1939–2023)
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 (born 1940)
Barry Flanagan (1941–2009)
Yvonne Hutton (1941–1991)
Geoffrey Key (born 1941)
Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
Peter Olley (born 1942)
Ruth Rix (born 1942)
Alan Aldridge (1938–2017)
Grange Calveley (1943–2021)
Errol Lloyd (born 1943)
Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
Graham Ovenden (1943–2022)
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 (born 1945)
Val Archer (born 1946)
Lewis Blake (born 1946)
Terance James Bond (1946–2023)
Paul Dash (born 1946)
Rose Garrard (born 1946)
Winston Branch (born 1947)
Paul Brown (born 1947) – digital artist
Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007) – sculptor
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 P. Cook (born 1949)
Richard Deacon (born 1949) – 1987 Turner Prize Winner
Paul Wager (born 1949) – painter and sculptor

Born 1950–1999

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 St Kitts
Chris Gollon (1953–2017)
Monica Petzal (born 1953), painter and printmaker
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 (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)
Malcolm McGookin (born 1956)
Terry Smith (born 1956)
James Dodds (born 1957)
Jeremy Gardiner (born 1957)
Fiona Graham-Mackay (born 1957) – portraits of the royal family
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 (born 1960)
John Foulger (1960–2006)
Isaac Julien (born 1960)
Grayson Perry (born 1960)
Nick Fudge (born 1960)
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 (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 (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)
Rupert Shrive (born 1965)
Fiona Banner (born 1966)
Fiona Crisp (born 1966) – photographer
Ian Davenport (born 1966)
Christian Furr (born 1966)
Igor Kufayev (born 1966)
Maria Marshall (born 1966)
Elizabeth Price (born 1966) – 2012 Turner Prize winner
Peter Brown (born 1967)
Serena de la Hey (born 1967), sculptor
Andy Lomas (born 1967)
Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967)
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 (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)
Banksy (reportedly born 1974)
Michael Takeo Magruder (born 1974) – new media and digital artist
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 (born 1978)
David Spriggs (born 1978) – sculptor, installation artist
Angela Wakefield (born 1978)
Hannah Rickards (born 1979)
Fuller (born 1980)
Nick Gentry (born 1980)
Conor Harrington (born 1980)
Edward Kluz (born 1980)
Polly Morgan (born 1980)
Stuart Semple (born 1980)
Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983)
Anna King (born 1984)
Anthony Smith (born 1984) – bronze sculptor
Sarah Maple (born 1985) – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner
Emma Cousin (born 1986)
Johan Andersson (born 1986)
Nicola Frimpong (born 1987)
Seb Toussaint (born 1988) – street artist and painter
Nathan Wyburn (born 1989) – food artist
The Connor Brothers (born 1980s)
Sophie Green (born 1992)
Bianca Raffaella (born 1992)
Vanessa Lubach (fl 1990), printmaker

Born 2000 and later

Kieron Williamson (born 2002) – English painter

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