List of British painters

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

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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)
• 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)
• 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 (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)
• 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)
• Arthur Miles Moss (1873-1948)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

Unknown year, born 20th century

• Freya Douglas-Morris
• Charles Harris

See also

• 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.