List of Irish artists
ééThis is a list of visual artists born or working mainly in Ireland along with a list of critics, collectors and curators who have had an influence on Irish visual arts.
A - C
- Roy Burns Irish Artist (b. 1954)
- Henry Allan (1865–1912)
- William Ashford (1746–1824)
- Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
- Robert Ballagh (b. 1943)
- Christopher Banahan (b. 1958)
- George Barret, Sr. (1728–1784)
- Jeremiah Barrett (1814–1906)
- James Barry (1741–1806)
- William Gerard Barry (1864–1941)
- Rose Mary Barton (1856–1929)
- Richard Brydges Beechey (1808–1895)
- John Behan (b. 1938)
- Pauline Bewick (b. 1935)
- Francis Bindon (1690–1765)
- Basil Blackshaw (b. 1932)
- Brian Bourke (b. 1936)
- John Boyne (1750–1810)
- Charles Brady (1926–1997)
- James Brenan (1837–1907)
- Vincent Browne (b. 1947)
- Colleen Browning (b. 1929)
- Adam Buck (1759–1833)
- Augustus Nicholas Burke (1838–1891)
- John Burke (b. 1946)
- Thomas Burke (1749–1815)
- Frederick William Burton (1816–1900)
- Mildred Anne Butler (1885–1941)
- John Butts (c1728–1764)
- Martin Campbell (b. 1972)
- Robert Carver (c1730–1791)
- John Cassidy (1860–1939)
- Harry Clarke (1889–1931)
- Egerton Bushe Coghill (1853–1921)
- James Coleman (b. 1941)
- John Coll (b. 1956)
- Patrick Collins (1910–1994)
- Fred Conlon (1943–2005)
- Amanda Coogan (b. 1971)
- Barrie Cooke (b. 1931)
- Elizabeth Cope (b. 1955?)
- Martin Cregan (1788–1870)
- Ciaran Cronin (b. 1972)
- Dorothy Cross (b. 1956)
- William Crozier (b. 1930)
- Michael Cullen (b. 1946)
D - G
- Francis Danby (1793–1861)
- Edward Delaney (b. 1930)
- Gerald Dillon (1916–1971)
- James Dixon (1887–1970)
- William Dixon (c1784–1834)
- Willie Doherty (b. 1959)
- Susanna Drury (c1698–c1770)
- Patrick Vincent Duffy (1836–1909)
- Felim Egan (b. 1952)
- Frank Egginton (1908–1990)
- Alfred Elmore (1815–1881)
- Beatrice Elvery (1881–1970)
- Chung Eun-Mo (b. 1946)
- Robert Fagan (1761–1816)
- Michael Farrell (b. 1940)
- Gary Farrelly (b. 1983)
- Fergus Feehily (b. 1968)
- Jonathan Fisher (fl. 1763–1809)
- Jim Fitzpatrick
- John Henry Foley (1818–1874)
- Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947)
- James Forrester (1730–1776)
- William Banks Fortescue (1855–1924)
- David Franklin (b. 1978)
- William Percy French (1854–1920)
- Norman Garstin (1847–1926)
- Edmund Garvey (1740–1813)
- Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955)
- Eileen Gray (1879–1976)
- Charles McIver Grierson (1864–1939)
- Nathaniel Grogan (1740–1807)
H - J
- Willem Van der Hagen (d. 1745)
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1734–1808)
- James Hamilton (1819–1878)
- Jack Hanlon (1913–1968)
- Alice Hanratty (b. 1939)
- William Michael Harnett (1848–1892)
- Gertrude Hartland (1865–1954)
- Henry Albert Hartland (1840–1893)
- Joseph Patrick Haverty (1794–1864)
- Edwin Hayes (1819–1904)
- Gabriel Hayes (1909–1978)
- Michael Joseph Healy (1873–1941)
- Gottfried Helnwein (b. 1948)
- Patrick Hennessy (1915–1980)
- William John Hennessy (1839–1917)
- Grace Henry (1868–1953)
- Paul Henry (1876–1958)
- Mary Balfour Herbert (1817–1893)
- Christopher Hewetson (1739–1799)
- Thomas Hickey (1741–1824)
- Derek Hill (b. 1916)
- Nathaniel Hill (1861–1934)
- Sean Hillen (b. 1961)
- Nuala Holloway
- Katie Holten (1975)
- Evie Hone (1894–1955)
- Nathaniel Hone (1718–1784)
- Nathaniel Hone the Younger (1831–1917)
- Thomas Hovenden (1840–1895)
- Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796–1863)
- Patrick Ireland/Brian O'Doherty (b. 1935)
- Hans Iten (1874–1930)
- Mainie Jellett (1897–1944)
- Charles Jervas (1675–1739)
- Roy Johnston (b. 1936)
- George W. Joy (1845–1925)
- Rachel Joynt (b. 1966)
K - N
- Michael Kane (b.1935)
- Paul Kane (1810–1871)
- Joseph Malachy Kavanagh (1856–1918)
- Seán Keating (1889–1977)
- Oisín Kelly (1915–1981)
- Harry Kernoff (1900–1974)
- John Kindness (b. 1951)
- Brian King (b. 1942)
- Cecil King (1921–1986)
- John Kingerlee (b. 1936)
- Jack Kirwan (b. 1956)
- Graham Knuttel (b. 1954)
- Jonathan Knuttel (b. 1972)
- Peter Knuttel
- Charles Lamb (1893–1964)
- Gene Lambert (b. 1952)
- John Lavery (1856–1941)
- Louis le Brocquy (b. 1916)
- Reymond Leahy (b. 1950)
- William John Leech (1861–1968)
- Patrick MacDowell (1799–1870)
- Maurice MacGonigal (1900–1979)
- Daniel Maclise (1806–1870)
- Henry MacManus (c1810–1878)
- Anne Madden (b. 1932)
- Brian Maguire (b. 1951)
- Cecil Maguire (b. 1930)
- William Henry Maguire (1806–1853)
- Alice Maher (b. 1956)
- Kathleen Marescaux (1868–1944)
- Gerald Marjoram(b. 1936)
- Padraig Marrinan (1906–1975)
- Fergus Martin (b. 1955)
- Sheila McClean
- Samuel McCloy (1831–1904)
- Norah McGuinness (1903–1980)
- Justin McKeown (b. 1979)
- Catherine McWilliams (b. 1940)
- Joseph McWilliams (b. 1938)
- Simon McWilliams (b. 1970)
- Colin Middleton (1910–1983)
- John Minihan (b. 1946)
- Garret Morphey (c1650–1716)
- Richard Moynan (1856–1906)
- Michael Mulcahy (b. 1952)
- William Mulready (1786–1863)
- Bernard Mulrenin (1803–1868)
- George Francis Mulvany (1809–1869)
- Stephen Murphy
- Charles Wynne Nicholls (1831–1903)
O - S
- Dermod O'Brien (1865–1945)
- James Arthur O'Connor (1792–1841)
- John O'Connor (1830–1889)
- Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940)
- Eamonn O'Doherty
- Aloysius O'Kelly (1853–c1941)
- Deirdre O'Mahony (b. 1956)
- Tony O'Malley (1913–2003)
- Liam Ó Maonlaí (b. 1964)
- Frank O'Meara (1853–1888)
- Daniel O'Neill (1920–1974)
- Henry O'Neill (1798–1880)
- William Orpen (1878–1931)
- Walter Osborne (1859–1903)
- William Osborne (1823–1901)
- George Petrie (1790–1866)
- Stanley Pettigrew (b. 1927)
- Sarah Purser (1848–1943)
- Stephen Pusey (b. 1952)
- Patrick Pye (b. 1929)
- John Quigley (b. 1964)
- Maurice Quillinan (b. 1961)
- Basil Rakoczi (1908–1979)
- John Ramage (1748–1802)
- Nano Reid (1900–1981)
- Anne Rigney (b. 1957)
- Thomas Roberts (1749–1778)
- Markey Robinson (1918–1999)
- Vivienne Roche (b. 1953)
- Nigel Rolfe (b. 1950)
- William Sadler II (c1782–1839)
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907)
- Patrick Scott (b. 1921)
- Harry Scully (1860–1935)
- Sean Scully (b. 1945)
- Paul Seawright (b. 1965)
- Neil Shawcross (b. 1940)
- Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769–1850)
- John Shinnors (b. 1950)
- James Sleator (1889–1950)
- Victor Sloan (b. 1945)
- Packy Smith
- George Henry Smyth (b. 1968)
- Camille Souter (b. 1929)
- Amelia Stein (b. 1958)
- Stella Steyn (1907–1987)
- Imogen Stuart (b. 1927)
- Cuthbert Edmund Swan (1870–1931)
T - Z
- Donald Teskey (b. 1956)
- Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859-1929)
- Henry Tresham (1750–1814)
- Helen Mabel Trevor (1831–1900)
- J. Laurie Wallace (1864–1953)
- Owen Walsh (1933–2002)
- Samuel Walsh (b. 1951)
- Michael Warren (b. 1950)
- William Gorman Wills (1828–1891)
- Anne Yeats (1919–2001)
- Jack Yeats (1871–1957)
- John Butler Yeats (1839–1922)
- Lady Mabel Annesley (1881–1959) Born in New Zealand
- William Ashford (c1746–1824) Born in England
- Anne Elizabeth Ball (1808–1872)
- Eileen Barnes (c1910–1950)
- Myra Barry (1886–1960)
- Rose Barton (1856–1929)
- Mary Battersby (c1804–1841)
- Frances Beaufort (Mrs Lovell Edgeworth) (1769–1864)
- Lady Edith Blake (née Bernal Osborne) (1845–1926)
- Samuel Brocas (c1792–1847)
- Sarah Brooks (1850–1928) Born in Australia
- Mildred Anne Butler (1858–1941)
- Gerard Byrne (b. 1958)
- Mrs. James Cooksson (née Murray)
- Lady Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe (née Williams) (1867–1967) Born in England, see Irish plant Collectors
- Mary Delaney (1700–1788) Born in England
- Samuel Dixon (c1748–69)
- Andrew Hastings Doyle (c1774–1841)
- George Victor Du Noyer (1817–1869)
- Diana Conyngham Ellis (née Monsell) (1813–1851)
- John Ellis (c1705–1776) Born in England
- Marianne Fannin (Mrs Roberts) (1848–1938) Born in South Africa
- Robert David FitzGerald (1830–1892)Australia) see Irish plant Collectors
- Kathleen Fox (1880–1963)
- Barbara Gage (1817–1859)
- Catherine Gage (1815–1892)
- Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) see also Robert Day
- Elizabeth Grey (née Sharpe) (d. 1903)
- James Gwim (c1720–1769)
- Fr. Jack Hanlon (1913–1968)
- Gertrude Hartland (1865–1954)
- William Henry Harvey (1811–1866) Born in Torquay
- Grace Henry (1868–1953) Born in Scotland
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) Born in England
- William Howis (1804–1882)
- Phillip Hussey (1713–1783)
- Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815), see Ardnagashel House Historic Cork Gardens
- Hans Iten (1874–1930) Born in Switzerland
- Alive Jacob (1862–1921)
- Andrea Jameson (b. 1953) Born in Norway
- Patricia Jorgensen (b. 1936)
- William Kilburn (1745–1818)
- Martha King (c1830–1997) Born in New Zealand
- Deborah Lambkin (b. 1970)
- Sir John Langham (1894–1972)
- Grainne Langrishe
- Susan Lecky (1837–1896)
- James Mannin (d. 1779)
- Kathleen (née Dennis) Marescaux (1868–1944)
- Samuel McCloy (1831–1904)
- Rev D.P. Murray (1887–1967) Born in England
- Andrew Nicholl (1804–1886) Born in London
- Geraldine O'Brien later Hely-Hutchinson
- Helen Sophia O'Hara (1846–1920)
- Raymond Piper (b. 1923) Born in England
- Katherine Plunkett (1820–1932)
- Caroline Pounds (née Elam)
- Sophia Rosamond Praeger (1867–1954)
- Frances Proskitt Born in England
- Sarah Purser (1848–1943)
- Susan Sex
- Lydia Shackleton (1828–1914)
- James Stuart (c1802–1842)
- John Templeton (1766–1825)
- William Edward Trevithick (1899–1958)
- Wendy Walsh (b. 1915)
- Mary Ward (née King) (1827–1869)
- John White (c1577–1590) Born in England
- Isaac Whitehead (c1819–1881)
- Frances (Fanny) Wilmot Curry (1848–1917)
- David Wilson (1873–1935)
- Elizabeth (Lolly) Yeats (1868–1940) see William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats
Reference:Patricia Butler,'Irish Botanical Illustrators', Antique Collectors Club, London 2000 ISBN 1-85149-357-3
Critics, collectors and curators
- Alfred Chester Beatty (1875–1968)
- Alfred Lane Beit (1903–1994)
- William Dargan (1799–1867)
- Cathal Gannon
- Bryan Guinness (1905–1992)
- Knight of Glin
- Gordon Lambert (1919–2005)
- Hugh Lane (1875–1915)
- Denis Mahon (b. 1910)
- Lochlainn Quinn
- Æ (George William Russell) (1867–1935)
- Tony Ryan
- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
- Dorothy Walker (1929–2002)
- James White