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 Flemish) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King

Born 17th Century

• William Dobson (1610–1646)
• John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
• Peter Lely (1618–1680) Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Joseph Stannard (1797–1830)
• Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
• Henry Collen (1797–1879)
• Frederick Richard Lee R.A. (1798–1879)
• Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861)

Born 19th Century

• 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)
• George Armfield (Smith) (1808–1893)
• Thomas Baker (1809–1864)
• William Knight Keeling (1817–1886)
• William Edward Frost (1810–1877)
• Henry Dawson (artist) (1811–1878)
• Thomas Joy (1812–1866)
• Edmund John Niemann (1813-1876)
• Harry Hall (c.1814–1882)
• John Absolon (1815–1895)
• Augustus Egg (1816–1863)
• James Francis Danby (1816–1875)
• Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879)
• John Phillip (1817–1867)
• Branwell Brontë (1817–1848)
• Thomas Danby (artist) (1817–1886)
• Richard Dadd (1817–1886)
• John Callcott Horsley (1817–1903)
• Henry Mark Anthony (1817–1886)
• George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
• Louisa Stuart Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford (1818–1891)
• John Anster Fitzgerald (c. 1819 – 1906)
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
• Mary Ann Duffield (1819–1914)
• Robert Huskisson (1820–1861)
• James Sant (1820–1916)
• James Smetham (1821–1889)
• Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893)
• Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901)
• George Hardy (1822–1909)
• Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
• William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916)
• Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916)
• William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
• Frederick Daniel Hardy (1827–1911)
• John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
• George Bernard O'Neill (1828–1917)
• John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897)
• Edwin Long (1829–1890)
• John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
• Lord Frederick Leighton (1830–1896)
• Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
• Henrietta Ward (1832–1924)
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898)
• Benjamin Williams Leader RA (1833–1921
• George Henry Boughton (1833–1905)
• Frederic Shields (1833–1911)
• William Morris (1834–1896)
• Emily Mary Osborn (1834–1913)
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) born Dutch in Dronrijp in the Netherlands
• John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
• 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)
• Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922)
• Clara Montalba (1842–1929)
• Edwin Ellis {1842-1895)
• Herbert William Weekes (c. 1842 – Unknown)
• Louise Jopling (1843–1933)
• Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904)
• Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927)
• Isabel Dacre (1844–1933)
• Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933)
• Louisa Starr Canziani (1845–1909)
• Ellen Gertrude Cohen (1846 – Unknown)
• Edith Corbet (1846–1920)
• Kate Greenaway (1846–1901)
• Walter Greaves (1846–1930)
• Marion Ellis Rowan (1847–1922)
• William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919)
• Helen Allingham (1848–1926)
• Helen Thornycroft (1848–1937)
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
• John Reinhard Weguelin (1849–1927)
• Mary Waller (c. 1850 – 1931)
• John Collier (1850–1934)
• Mary Louise Hall (1851–1929)
• Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914)
• Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909)
• Alfred de Breanski, Sr. (1852–1928)
• George Clausen (1852–1944)
• Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (1852–1944)
• Charles Napier Kennedy (1852–1898)
• Walter Langley (1852–1922)
• Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
• Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)
• Alfred Robert Quinton (1853–1934)
• Edward Wilkins Waite (1854–1924)
• George Paice (painter) (1854-1925)
• Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)
• Blanche Jenkins (c. 1855 – c. 1934)
• Jane Mary Dealy, Lady Lewis (1856–1939)
• Sara Page (1855–1943)
• Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
• Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893)
• 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)
• Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes (1859–1912)
• Annie Mary Youngman (1859–1919)
• Henrietta Rae (1859–1928)
• Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940)
• Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951)
• George Phoenix (1863–1935)
• Arthur Wardle (1864–1949)
• Arthur Lowe (painter) (1865–1940)
• Anna Alma-Tadema (1865–1943)
• Charles Spencelayh (1865–1958)
• John Guille Millais (1865–1931)
• 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)
• Alexander Scott (1872–1932)
• Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
• Sophie Atkinson (1876–1972)
• Gwen John (1876–1939)
• Alfred Fontville de Breanski, Jr. (1877–1957)
• Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
• Laura Knight (1877–1970)
• Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967)
• Augustus John (1878–1961)
• J. Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954)
• Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
• Sir Henry Rushbury R.A.(1889–1968)
• 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)
• 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)

Unknown year, born 19th Century

• Edward Pritchett (fl. 1828–1864)
• Leonard Huskisson (fl. 1839–1859)
• Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879)
• Eleanor Stuart Wood (fl. 1876–1910)
• Flora MacDonald Reid (c. 1860 – c. 1939)

Born 20th Century

• Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
• Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
• John Piper (1903–1992)
• Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997)
• Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
• Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999)
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
• John Bridgeman (1914–2004)
• Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008)
• William Gear (1915–1997)
• Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)
• Michael Kidner (1917-2009)
• Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) Born in Berlin, lived in Liverpool.
• John Christoforou (born 1921)
• Patrick Heron (1920 – 1999)
• John Craxton (1922–2009)
• Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
• Patrick Swift (1927–1983) Born in Ireland
• John Plumb (1927–2008)
• John Copnall (1928–2007)
• Adrian Morris (1929–2004)
• Robyn Denny (born 1930)
• Bridget Riley (1931)
• Peter Blake (born 1932)
• Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932-2010)
• Marc Vaux (born 1932)
• Alexander Goudie (1933–2004)
• Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
• John Hoyland (1934–2011)
• Ken Kiff (1935–2001)
• Ivor Davies (artist) (born 1935)
• Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
• David Hockney (born 1937)
• Tess Jaray (born 1937)
• Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
• Sheila Mullen (born 1942)
• Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
• John Wonnacott (born 1940)
• Bruce McLean (born 1944)
• Jonathon Coudrille (born 1945)
• Osi Rhys Osmond
• Timothy Hyman (born 1946)
• Edward Kelly (born 1946)
• Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1950)
• Roy Petley (born 1951)
• Peter Edwards (born 1955)
• Jo Self (born 1956)
• David Leapman (born 1959)
• Guy Denning (born 1965)
• Damien Hirst (born 1965)
• George Shaw (born 1966)
• Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
• Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
• Tom Palin (born 1974)
• Banksy (b. c. 1974)
• Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975)

See also

• British art
• English school of painting