List of British artists
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A partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically (but alphabetically within any year).
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[edit] Born before 1700
- Francis Barlow (1626?–1704)
- Samuel Cooper (c.1608–1672)
- Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1516–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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
- 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)
- 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 !!!
- Walter Sickert (1860–1942)
- Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942)
- 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)
- 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
- John Farleigh (1900–1965)
- 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)
- 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–)
- Francis Bacon (1909–1992) born in Ireland
- Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)
- Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
- Julian Murphy (1959–)
- 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–)
- 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–)
- Peter Blake (1932–)
- Howard Hodgkin (1932–)
- Ken Howard (1932–)
- R.B. Kitaj (1932–) born in USA
- Harold Mockford (1932–)
- Paula Rego (1935–) born in Portugal
- David Hockney (1937–)
- Allen Jones (1937–)
- Tom Phillips (1937–)
- Terry Atkinson (1939–)
- Anthony Green (1939–)
- John Walker (painter) (1939–), painter and printmaker
- John Byrne (1940–)
- Barry Flanagan (1941–)
- Ruth Rix (1942–)
- Alan Aldridge (1943–)
- Graham Bowers (1943–)
- Bruce McLean (1944–)
- Richard Long (1945–)
- Linda Sutton (1947–)
- Godfrey Blow (1948-)
- Anthony Gormley (1950–)
- Chris Gollon (1953–)
- Charles Thomson (1953–)
- Aidan Hughes (1954–)
- Errol Francis (1956–)
- James Dodds (1957–)
- Willard Wigan (1957–)
- Lennie Lee (1958–) born in South Africa
- Andrew B. Campbell (1960–)
- Christopher Wood (1962–)
- Dan Jones (1962–)
- Tracey Emin (1963–)
- Kevin McCourt (1964–)
- Susan Ridley (1964–)
- Lee Woods (1964 –)
- Damien Hirst (1965–)
- Sarah Lucas (1965–)
- Stuart Semple (1980–)
- Guy Tarrant (1966–)
- Ian Davenport (1966–)
- Benedict Carpenter (1975–)
- Juno Doran (1966–)
- Simon P Reeve (1969–)
- Graham Nicholls (1975–)
- Owen Traynor (?–)
- Banksy (?–)
- Pogus Caesar (?–) Born in St Kitts
- Peter David Hamilton (1981–), film maker & digital artist
- Pete Gilbert (1950–), graphic designer and painter
- Jonathan Kearney (1971–)
- Wilhelmina Baldwin (1965–)
- Scandy (1980–), british born photographer
