List of British artists

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A partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically (but alphabetically within any year).

Contents 1 Born before 1700 2 Born 1700–1799 3 Born 1800–1899 4 Born 1900 and later

[edit] Born before 1700

• Francis Barlow (1626?–1704)
• Samuel Cooper (c.1608–1672)
• Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) Born in Antwerp
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1520–c.1590) Born in Bruges
• George Gower (1540–1596)
• Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619)
• William Hogarth (1697–1764)
• Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) Born in Augsburg
• Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) Born in Prague
• Godfrey Kneller (1646/9–1723) Born in Lübeck
• Peter Lely (1618–1680) Born in Westphalia
• Peter Monamy (1681–1749)
• Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617) Born in Rouen
• Francis Place (1647–1728)
• John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) Born in Antwerp
• James Thornhill (1675–1734)
• John Vanderbank (1694–1739)
• John Wootton (1682–1764)
• John Michael Wright (1617–1694)

[edit] Born 1700–1799

• Louis François Roubiliac (1702/5–1762) Born in Lyon
• Samuel Scott (1702–1770)
• James Seymour (c.1702–1752)
• William Hoare (1707?–1792)
• Francis Hayman (1708–1776)
• Arthur Devis (c1711–1787)
• Allan Ramsay (1713–1784)
• Richard Wilson (1713–1782)
• Alexander Cozens (1717?–1786) Born in Russia
• Charles Brooking (1723–1759)
• Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
• George Stubbs (1724–1806)
• Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
• Paul Sandby (1730–1809)
• Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807)
• Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) Born near Frankfurt
• George Romney (1734–1802)
• Joseph Wright (1734–1797)
• Alexander Runciman (1736–1785)
• Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823)
• Francis Towne (1739/40–1816)
• Angelica Kauffmann (1740–1807) Born in Switzerland
• Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) Born in Strasbourg
• John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779)
• Matthew William Peters (1741–1814)
• James Barry (1741–1806) born in Ireland
• Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) born in Switzerland
• Richard Cosway (1742–1821)
• John Robert Cozens (1752–1797)
• Thomas Bewick (1753–1828)
• Thomas Stothard (1755–1834
• Prince Hoare (1755–1834), painter and dramatist
• Henry Raeburn (1756–1823)
• Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827)
• William Blake (1757–1827)
• Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840)
• Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803)
• Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830)
• John Charles Felix Rossi (1762–1839), sculptor
• Arthur William Devis (1762–1822), painter
• George Morland (1763–1804)
• John Crome (1768–1821)
• James Ward (1769–1859)
• Thomas Phillips (1770–1845)
• Thomas Girtin (1775–1802)
• Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
• John Constable (1776?1837)
• John Varley (1778–1842)
• Samuel Colman (1780–1845)
• John Sell Cotman (1782–1842)
• David Cox (1783–1859)
• Samuel Prout (1783–1852)
• Peter De Wint (1784–1849)
• David Wilkie (1785–1841)
• William Mulready (1786–1863)
• Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831)
• John Martin (1789–1854)
• William Henry Hunt (1790–1864)
• John Linnell (1792–1882)
• Francis Danby (1793–1861)
• Edward Calvert (1799–1883)

[edit] Born 1800–1899

• Arthur Elliot
• Horace Tuck (1876–1951)
• Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828)
• Edwin Landseer (1802–1873)
• Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874)
• Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
• John Steell (1804–1891)
• John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876)
• Samuel Palmer (1805–1881)
• William Dyce (1806–1864)
• Edward Armitage (1817–1896)
• Richard Dadd (1817–1886)
• Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892)
• George Frederick Watts (1817–1904)
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
• Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893)
• Abraham Solomon (1824–1862)
• Thomas Woolner (1825–1892)
• William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
• Edwin Long (1829-1890)
• John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
• Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896)
• Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)
• Marianne North (1830–1890)
• John William Bailey (1831–1914)
• Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
• Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954)
• William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910)
• Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898)
• Benjamin Williams Leader (1833–1922)
• William Morris (1834–1896)
• James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) Born in USA
• William McTaggart (1835–1910)
• Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875) Born in India
• John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) Born in Netherlands
• James Tissot (1836–1902) Born in France
• Simeon Solomon (1840–1905)
• Frederick Walker (painter) (1840–1875)
• Albert Moore (1841–1893)
• Alexander Mark Rossi (1841–1916) Born in Corfu
• Walter Crane (1845–1915)
• Frank Holl (1845–1888)
• Walter Greaves (1846–1930)
• Ralph Hedley (1848–1913)
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
• John Collier (1850–1934)
• Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914)
• Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
• Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)
• Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
• James Pittendreigh MacGillivray (1856–1938)
• John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) Born in Florence to American parents
• Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927)
• Walter Sickert (1860–1942)
• Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942)
• Arthur Wardle (1864-1949)
• Robert Bevan (1865–1925)
• Roger Fry (1866–1934)
• Frank Brangwyn (1867–1943)
• William Ratcliffe (1870–1955)
• William Nicholson (1872–1949)
• Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898)
• Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
• John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961)
• Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
• Harold Gilman (1876–1919)
• Gwen John (1876–1939)
• Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
• Charles Ginner (1878–1952)
• Spencer Gore (1878–1914)
• William Reid Dick (1879–1961)
• Augustus John (1878–1961)
• Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
• Matthew Smith (1879–1959)
• Malcolm Drummond (1880–1945)
• Jacob Epstein (1880–1959)
• Eric Gill (1882–1940)
• Henry Lamb (1883–1960)
• Percy Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957
• Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
• Gwen Raverat (1885–1957)
• L. S. Lowry (1887–1976)
• Paul Nash (1889–1946)
• Christopher Nevinson (1889–1946)
• Robert Gibbings (1889–1940)
• Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949)
• Nina Hamnett (1890–1956)
• David Bomberg (1890–1957)
• Iain Macnab (1890–1967)
• Leon Underwood (1890–1975)
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915) Born in France
• Mark Gertler (1891–1939)
• Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
• Gilbert Spencer (1892–1978)
• John Nash (1893–1977)
• Flora Twort (1893–1985)
• Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
• David Jones (1895–1974)
• William Roberts (1895–1980)
• John Buckland-Wright (1897–1954)
• Henry Moore (1898–1986)

[edit] Born 1900 and later

• Patrick Hughes (artist) (1939 –)
• Roland Penrose (1900–1984)
• Clair Leighton (1900–1989)
• Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983)
• Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
• Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
• John Piper (1903–1992)
• Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
• Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
• Albert Houthuesen (1903–1979)
• Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
• Edward Burra (1905–1976)
• Kenneth Martin (1905–)
• Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
• Joan Hassall (1906–1988)
• Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye (1907–2005)
• Claude Rogers (1907–1979)
• William Coldstream (1908–)
• Victor Pasmore (1908–)
• Carel Weight (1908–)
• Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976)
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992) born in Ireland
• Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)
• Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
• John Grome (painter) (1911 –2004)
• Bailey John (Slade) (born 1926
• Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)
• Reg Butler (1913–1981)
• Lynn Chadwick (1914–)
• John Bridgeman (1916 –2004)
• Anthony Robert Klitz (3 September 1917 – 19 September 2000)
• John Minton (1917–1957)
• Peter Lanyon (1918–1964)
• Lucian Freud (1922–)
• Richard Hamilton (1922–)
• Eduardo Paolozzi (1922–2005)
• William McLaren (1923–1987)
• Anthony Caro (1924–)
• Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–)
• Beryl Cook (1926–)
• Leon Kossoff (1926–)
• Michael Andrews (1928–)
• Robyn Denny (1930–)
• David Gentleman (1930–)
• Frank Auerbach (1931–)
• Bridget Riley (1931–)
• John Ambrose (1931–)
• Peter Blake (1932–)
• Howard Hodgkin (1932–)
• Ken Howard (1932–)
• R.B. Kitaj (1932–) born in USA
• Harold Mockford (1932–)
• Ian Weatherhead (1932–)
• Richard Allen (abstract artist) (1933–1999)
• Paula Rego (1935–) born in Portugal
• David Hockney (1937–)
• Allen Jones (1937–)
• Tom Phillips (1937–)
• Terry Atkinson (1939–)
• Anthony Green (1939–)
• Gary Sargeant M.A. (1939–)
• John Walker (painter) (1939–), painter and printmaker
• John Byrne (1940–)
• John Wonnacott (1940–)
• Barry Flanagan (1941–)
• Ruth Rix (1942–)
• Alan Aldridge (1943–)
• Graham Bowers (1943–)
• Bruce McLean (1944–)
• Ali Omar Ermes (1945-)
• Richard Long (1945–)
• Lewis Blake (1946–)
• Glen Onwin (1946–)
• Linda Sutton (1947–)
• John Hoar (1947–)
• Godfrey Blow (1948-)
• Pete Gilbert (1950–), graphic designer and painter
• Anthony Gormley (1950–)
• Richard Kretchmer (1950–)
• Edward Allington (1951–)
• Paul Kenny (1951–)
• Stephen Pusey(1952–)
• Chris Gollon (1953–)
• Charles Thomson (1953–)
• Aidan Hughes (1954–)
• David Tress (1955–)
• Errol Francis (1956–)
• Willard Wigan (1957–)
• Lennie Lee (1958–) born in South Africa
• Andy Dog Johnson (1959–)
• Grayson Perry (1960–)
• Christopher Wood (1962–)
• Dan Jones (1962–)
• Tracey Emin (1963–)
• Kevin McCourt (1964–)
• Lee Woods (1964 –)
• Tom Cartmill (1965–)
• Wilhelmina Baldwin (1965–)
• Damien Hirst (1965–)
• Sarah Lucas (1965–)
• Christian Furr (1966–)
• Mike Philbin (1966–)
• Stuart Semple 1980–)
• Guy Tarrant (1966–)
• Ian Davenport (1966–)
• Igor Kufayev (1966–)
• Juno Doran (1966–)
• Peter Brown (1967–)
• Chris Ofili (1968–)
• Jonathan Kearney (1971–)
• Banksy (1974–)
• Tom Palin (1974]–)
• Stephen Wiltshire (1974–), autistic savant artist
• Benedict Carpenter (1975–)
• Graham Nicholls (1975–)
• Matt O'dell (1976–)
• Pogus Caesar (?–) Born in St Kitts
• Molly Garnier (1981–)