List of British painters
The following is a list of notable British painters (in chronological order).
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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
- William Dobson (1610–1646)
- John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
- Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661)
- Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713)
- Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
- Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)
- Peter Monamy (1681–1749)
- John Wootton (1682–1764)
- Joseph Highmore (1692–1780)
- John Vanderbank (1694–1739)
- William Hogarth (1697–1764)
Born 18th century
- Thomas Hudson (1701–1779)
- William Hoare (c. 1707–1792)
- Francis Hayman (1708–1776)
- John Shackleton (1714–1767) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III
- Richard Wilson (1714–1782)
- 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
- George Romney (1734–1802)
- Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
- Richard Wright (1735–c.1775)
- John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779)
- Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – born in Zurich, Switzerland
- The Revd Matthew William Peters (1742–1814)
- William Hodges (1744–1797)
- Henry Walton (1746–1813)
- William Tate (1747–1806)
- Joseph Barney (1753–1832)
- Lady Maria Bell (1755–1825)
- Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
- Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755–1802) – of Jersey
- Thomas Stothard (1755–1834)
- William Blake (1757–1827)
- Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803)
- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
- George Morland (1763–1804)
- Samuel Drummond (1766–1844)
- John Crome (1768–1821)
- 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)
- Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
- 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
- Francis Danby (1793–1861)
- Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859)
- Sir William Charles Ross RA (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)
- 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 (Smith)[1] (1808–1893)
- Thomas Baker (1809–1864)
- William Edward Frost (1810–1877)
- Henry Dawson (1811–1878)
- Ebenezer Colls (1812–1887)
- Thomas Joy (1812–1866)[2]
- 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)
- Louisa Beresford (1818–1891)
- John Anster Fitzgerald (c. 1819 – 1906)
- William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
- James Sant (1820–1916)
- Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893)
- Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901)
- James Smetham (1821–1889)
- Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
- George Hardy (1822–1909)
- William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916)
Born 1825–1849
- Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916)
- 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)
- 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)
- Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
- Henrietta Ward (1832–1924)
- George Henry Boughton (1833–1905)
- Sir 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, Netherlands
- John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
- Walter Field (1837–1901)
- Walter Goodman (1838–1912)
- 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)
- Isabel Dacre (1844–1933)
- Tristram Ellis (1844–1922)
- Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904)
- Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927)
- Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893)
- Jane Mary Dealy, Lady Lewis (1856–1939)
- 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)
- Henrietta Rae (1859–1928)
- Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940)
- Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951)
- Margaret Bernadine Hall (1863–1910)
- George Phoenix (1863–1935)
- Arthur Wardle (1864–1949)
- Anna Alma-Tadema (1865–1943)
- Arthur Lowe (1865–1940)
- John Guille Millais (1865–1931)
- Charles Spencelayh (1865–1958)
- Milly Childers (1866–1922)
- Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1940)
- Roger Fry (1866–1934)
- Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
- Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – born in Bruges
- Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898)
- Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
- Henry Keyworth Raine ( 1872-1932 )
- Alexander Scott (1872–1932)
- Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942)
Born 1875–1899
- Jenny Moulding (1875-1949)
- Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
- Sophie Atkinson (1876–1972)
- Gwen John (1876–1939)
- Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
- Laura Knight (1877–1970)
- Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967)
- Augustus John (1878–1961)
- Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
- John Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954)[3]
- Richard Howard Penton (1882–1960)
- Anna Airy (1882–1964)
- Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)
- Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
- Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
- Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
- Paul Nash (1889–1946)
- Cedric Morris (1889–1982)
- Sir Henry Rushbury (1889–1968)
- Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925)
- Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
- Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968)
- Cowan Dobson (1894–1980)
- Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
- Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)
- George Bissill (1896–1973)
- Hans Feibusch (1898-1998) Born Frankfurt, resident England 1934-1998
Unknown year, born 19th century
- Edward Pritchett (fl. 1828–1864)
- Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879)
Born 20th century
Born 1900–1949
- John Melville (1902-1986)
- John Piper (1903–1992)
- Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
- Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
- Mary Adshead (1904-1995)
- Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
- Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997)
- Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999)
- Edgar Hubert (1906-1985)
- Frank Egginton (1908–1990)
- Geoffrey Tibble (1909-1952)
- Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
- Anthony Devas (1911-1958)
- Leonard Appelbee (1914–2000)
- John Bridgeman (1914–2004)
- Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008)
- Terry Frost (1915-2003)
- William Gear (1915–1997)
- Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)
- Michael Kidner (1917–2009)
- Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) – born in Berlin; lived in Liverpool
- Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
- John Christoforou (1921-2014)
- John Craxton (1922–2009)
- Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
- John Plumb (1927–2008)
- Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
- John Copnall (1928–2007)
- Adrian Morris (1929–2004)
- Robyn Denny (1930-2014)
- Gillian Ayres (born 1930)
- Bridget Riley (born 1931)
- Peter Blake (born 1932)
- Howard Hodgkin (born 1932)
- Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010)
- Marc Vaux (born 1932)
- Alexander Goudie (1933–2004)
- John Hoyland (1934–2011)
- Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
- Ivor Davies (born 1935)
- Ken Kiff (1935–2001)
- Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
- David Hockney (born 1937)
- Tess Jaray (born 1937)
- Mario Dubsky (1939-1985)
- John Wonnacott (born 1940)
- Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
- Sheila Mullen (born 1942)
- Bruce McLean (born 1944)
- Jonathon Coudrille (born 1945)
- Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
- David Imms (born 1945)
- Timothy Hyman (born 1946)
- Edward Kelly (born 1946)
Born 1950–1999
- Roy Petley (born 1951)
- Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (born 1952)
- Deirdre Hyde (born 1953)
- Peter Edwards (born 1955)
- Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955)
- Jo Self (born 1956)
- Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
- David Leapman (born 1959)
- Guy Denning (born 1965)
- Damien Hirst (born 1965)
- George Shaw (born 1966)
- Ian Davenport (born 1960)
- Gary Hume (born 1962)
- Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
- Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
- Banksy (born c. 1974)
- Tom Palin (born 1974)
- Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975)
- Conor Harrington (born 1980)
Unknown year, born 20th century
See also
- British art
- English school of painting
- List of British artists
References
- ↑ George Armfield paintings, BBC Your Paintings. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ↑ Joy, Thomas Musgrave, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ↑ "John Hodgson Lobley (1878–1954)". Brown University Library, Center for Digital Initiatives.
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