List of Scottish artists

This is a list of notable artists born in Scotland and/or well known for their work in Scotland, arranged alphabetically by surname (and period).

Born before 1700

• John Alexander (died 1733), painter and engraver
• Arnold Bronckhorst (fl. 1565–1583), Dutch painter, the first King's Painter of Scotland
• William Gouw Ferguson (1632/3 – c. 1689), still life painter, active in France and Italy
• Gawen Hamilton (1698–1737), painter largely working in London
• George Heriot (1563–1624), Scottish goldsmith and jeweler
• George Jamesone (or Jameson) (c. 1587 – 1644), Scotland's first eminent portrait painter
• David Paton, active 1660–1700, painter of miniatures
• François Quesnel (c. 1543 – 1619), Scotland-born French painter
• John Michael Wright (1617–1694), portrait painter in the Baroque style

Born 1700–1799

• Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724 – 1772), noted portraitist in the United States
• David Allan (1744–1796), painter of historical subjects
• Andrew Bell (1726–1809), engraver and printer, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica
• John Zephaniah Bell (1794–1883), painter
• John Brown (1752–1787), artist
• Thomas Campbell (1790–1858), sculptor
• Robert Edmonstone (1794–1834), painter
• Robert Freebairn (1765–1808), landscape painter
• Andrew Geddes (1783–1844), portrait painter and etcher
• John Watson Gordon (1788–1864), painter
• Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), Scottish neoclassical history painter
• David Ramsay Hay (1798–1866), artist, interior decorator and colour theorist
• Andrew Henderson (1783–1835), portrait painter
• John Kay (1742–1826), caricaturist and engraver
• William Home Lizars (1788–1859), painter and engraver
• William Miller (1796–1882), engraver
• Jacob More (1740–1793), landscape painter
• William Mossman, 1793–1851, sculptor
• Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), landscape painter
• Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
• Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), portrait painter
• Allan Ramsay (1713–1784), painter
• David Roberts (1796–1864), painter and lithographer
• Alexander Robertson (1772-1841) painter, brother of Andrew and Archibald
• Andrew Robertson (1777–1845), miniaturist painter
• Archibald Robertson (1765–1835), painter
• Alexander Runciman (1736–1785), painter of historical and mythological subjects
• John Runciman (1744–1768/9), painter known for Biblical and literary scenes, brother of Alexander
• Archibald Skirving (1749–1819), portrait painter
• Reverend John Thomson (1778–1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
• George Watson (1767–1837), painter
• David Wilkie (1785–1841), painter

Born 1800–1899

• John Brown Abercromby (1843–1929), painter, styles and genres varying from traditional portraiture to avant-garde modernist
• Robert Adamson (1821–1848), photographer
• John Macdonald Aiken (1880–1961), watercolour and oil painter
• Andrew Allan (1863–1942), lithographer
• Hazel Armour (1894–1985), sculptor and medalist
• George Bain (1881–1968), art teacher whose writing revived interest in Celtic and Insular art
• James Ballantine (1806–1877), artist and author
• Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909), painter and illustrator
• Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher
• Phyllis Bone (1894–1972), sculptor
• William Bonnar (1800–1863), portraitist, and history and genre paintings
• William Brodie (1815–1881), sculptor
• Robert Brough (1872–1905), painter
• John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), Scottish landscapist
• Robert Bryden (1865–1939), artist, sculptor and engraver
• Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), sculptor
• Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937), member of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
• James Cadenhead (1858–1927), painter
• Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor, known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall
• Sir David Young Cameron (1865–1945), painter and etcher
• Mary Cameron (1865–1921), portraitist
• George Paul Chalmers (1833–1878), painter
• James Cowie (1886–1956), painter
• Hugh Adam Crawford (1898–1982), painter
• William Crozier (1893–1930), landscape painter
• Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822–1891), painter
• Thomas Millie Dow (1848–1919), painter, member of the Glasgow Boys school
• Jack M. Ducker (1890-?), painter who specialized in highland landscapes
• Ian Fairweather (1891–1974), Scottish/Australian painter
• Christian Jane Fergusson (1876–1957), Dumfries and Galloway landscape and still life painter
• John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), member of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
• Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), sculptor specialising in war memorials and sculpture on tombs
• Robert Gavin (1827–1883), painter
• William Geissler (1894–1963), artist known for his watercolours of the natural world
• David Cooke Gibson (1827–1856), painter and poet
• James William Giles (1801–1870), Scottish landscape painter
• Sir William George Gillies (1898–1973), landscape and still life painter
• Constance Frederica "Eka" Gordon-Cumming (1837–1924), travel writer and painter
• Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1931), Glasgow School artist
• Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964), portraitist
• James Guthrie (1859–1930), painter
• Peter Alexander Hay (1866–1952)
• John Henderson (1860–1924), painter and Director of Glasgow School of Art
• Joseph Henderson (1832–1908), Scottish landscape painter
• George Henry (1858–1943), painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School
• Joseph Morris Henderson (1863–1936), Scottish landscape painter
• David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), painter and photography pioneer as Hill & Adamson
• Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933), painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children
• Anna Hotchkis (1885–1985), painter
• John Kelso Hunter (1802–1873), self-taught portrait painter and author of two books
• George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931), self-taught painter and one of the four Scottish Colourists
• Beatrice Huntington (1889–1988), artist, sculptor and musician
• Alexander Johnston (1815–1891), painter, known for genre and history paintings
• Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980), painter of landscapes and portraits, particularly of children
• Jessie M King (1875–1949), illustrator (mostly of children's books), designer of jewelry and fabric
• Robert Scott Lauder (1803–1869), artist and portrait painter
• Andrew Law (1873–1967), artist and portrait painter
• William Mustart Lockhart (1855-1941), artist, mainly of Glasgow area landscapes, mostly watercolourist
• John Henry Lorimer (1856–1936), portraitist and genre painter, brother of architect Robert Lorimer
• Robert Macaulay Stevenson (1854–1952), painter
• Robert Walker Macbeth (1848–1910), painter, watercolourist, and printmaker
• Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (1860–1947), painter and printmaker
• Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)
• Frances MacDonald (1873–1921), Glasgow School artist, sister of Margaret MacDonald
• Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), Glasgow School artist, wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• John Roy Macfarlane (1830–1906) Glasgow portrait painter
• James MacGillivray (1856–1938), sculptor
• William York Macgregor (1855–1923), landscapist
• Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934), painter, engraver
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), architect, designer, husband of Margaret MacDonald
• James Herbert MacNair (1868–1955), Glasgow School artist, designer and teacher
• Harrington Mann (1864–1937), portraitist and decorative painter, member of the Glasgow Boys movement
• George Manson (1850–1876), watercolourist
• James McBey (1883–1959), painter, etcher and war artist
• Horatio McCulloch (1806–1867), landscape painter
• R. R. McIan (1803–1856), painter
• William McTaggart (1835–1910), landscape painter
• Arthur Melville (1858–1904), painter, remembered for his Orientalist subjects
• Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928), artist, known as one of the Glasgow Boys
• James MacLauchlan Nairn (1859–1904), Glasgow-born painter who influenced New Zealand painting in the late 19th century
• Jessie Newbery (1864–1948), Glasgow School artist and embroiderer
• James Campbell Noble (1846–1913), landscape and marine painter
• Robert Noble, (1857–1917), painter specialising in landscapes, first President of the Society of Scottish Artists
• Emily Murray Paterson (1855–1934), painter
• James Paterson (1854–1932), landscape and portrait painter, associated with The Glasgow Boys movement
• Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901), painter of religious subjects
• Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935), member of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
• John Pettie (1839–1893), painter
• Sir George Pirie (1863–1946), artist associated with the Glasgow Boys in the 1880s
• John Quinton Pringle (1865–1925), painter, influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and associated with the Glasgow Boys
• Anne Redpath (1895–1967), artist whose vivid domestic still lifes are among her best-known works
• Sir George Reid (1841–1913), landscape and portrait painter
• John Robertson Reid (1851–1926), painter
• John Stevenson Rhind (1859–1937),sculptor
• Robert Sivell (1888–1958), painter
• Sir John Robert Steell RSA (1804–1891), sculptor, works including the statue of Sir Walter Scott at the Scott Monument
• David Watson Stevenson (1842–1904), sculptor, executing portraits and monuments in marble and bronze
• William Grant Stevenson (1849–1919), sculptor and painter
• David Macbeth Sutherland (1883–1973), painter of Scottish and Breton landscapes, and portraits
• Adam Bruce Thomson (1885–1976), The Edinburgh School artist, landscape and portrait painter
• Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922), painter of landscapes and portraits
• Cecile Walton (1891–1956), painter, illustrator and sculptor
• George Fiddes Watt (1873–1960), portrait painter and engraver
• James Cromar Watt (1862–1940), artist, architect and jeweller
• Saul Yaffie (1898–1957), Jewish artist, later known as Paul Jeffay

Born 1900–1949

• David Annand (born 1948), sculptor
• Eric Auld (1931–2013), painter
• Robert Bain (1911–1973), sculptor, and professor of art in South Africa
• Edward Baird (1904–1949), painter
• Barbara Balmer (1929–2017), painter
• Mardi Barrie (1930–2004), painter
• John Bellany (1942–2013), painter
• Helen Biggar (1909–1953), sculptor, filmmaker and theatre designer
• Douglas Robertson Bisset (1908–2000), sculptor
• Sam Black (1913–1997)
• Robert Henderson Blyth (1919–1970)
• John Boyd (1925–2018), milliner
• Mary Syme Boyd (1910–1997), artist and sculptor
• Jimmy Boyle (born 1944) sculptor, author and convicted murderer
• Mark Boyle (1934–2005)
• Howard Butterworth, painter working in Aberdeenshire since the 1960s
• John Byrne (born 1940)
• W. Lindsay Cable (1900-1949), illustrator for Punch and Enid Blyton
• Gordon Cockburn (born 1944), painter
• Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)
• William (Bill) Crosbie (1915–1999)
• Richard Demarco (born 1930), artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts
• David Abercrombie Donaldson (1916–1996) Painter and Limner to Her Majesty The Queen
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), sculptor and installation artist
• Hannah Frank (1908–2008), artist and sculptor
• Mille Frood (born 1900), artist, Motherwell. Member of the New Scottish Group led by J.D. Fergusson.
• Tom Gourdie (1913–2005), artist
• Alasdair Gray (born 1934), artist and writer
• Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998), painter and sculptor
• Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
• Edwin G Lucas (1911–1990), painter
• Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)
• Hamish MacDonald (1935–2008), artist
• Rory McEwen (1932–1982), artist and musician
• George McGavin (1915–2004), painter
• William MacTaggart (1903–1981), landscape painter
• John Maxwell (1905–1962), painter of landscapes and imaginative subjects
• David Michie (1928–2015), painter
• James Morrison (born 1932), landscape painter
• John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948)
• Alberto Morrocco (1917–1998), artist
• Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005), sculptor
• James McIntosh Patrick (1907–1998), painter of landscapes and portraits
• Ronald Rae (born 1946), Granite sculptor and artist
• Ancell Stronach (1901–1981), artist
• Alan Sutherland (born 1931), portrait painter
• Alasdair Taylor (1934–2007), sculptor
• Sylvia Wishart (1936–2008), Orcadian landscape artist
• George Wyllie MBE (1921–2012), sculptor, known for his public art

Born 1950–1999

• Crawfurd Adamson (born 1953), figurative artist
• Charles Avery (born 1973), artist
• David Batchelor (born 1955)
• Karla Black (born 1972), sculptor, nominated for the 2011 Turner Prize
• Martin Boyce (born 1967), sculptor
• Hugh Buchanan (born 1958), watercolourist
• Roderick Buchanan (born 1965)
• Paul Carter (1970–2006)
• Stephen Conroy (born 1964)
• Ken Currie (born 1960), England-born member of the New Glasgow Boys
• Helen Denerley (born 1956), sculptor, much of her work made from reused scrap and inspired by the animal world
• Alan Dimmick (born 1956), photographer, best known for documenting the Glasgow art scene.
• Helen Douglas (book artist) (born 1952), book artist
• Kate Downie (born 1958), painter and printmaker
• Erica Eyres (born 1980), Canadian-born artist
• Lizzie Farey (born 1962)
• Michael Fullerton (born 1971), traditional portrait painter based in London
• Anya Gallaccio (born 1963)
• Douglas Gordon (born 1966), winner of the 1996 Turner Prize
• Andrew Grassie (born 1966), painter using tempera
• Claire Harrigan (born 1964)
• Peter Howson (born 1958)
• Richard Johnson (born 1966), Scotland-born and educated war artist
• Anna King (born 1984), painter
• Henry Kondracki (born 1953), painter
• David Mach (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
• John McKenna (born 1964) public artist, statue and monument creator
• Abigail McLellan (1969–2009)
• Susan Philipsz OBE (born 1965), sound installation artist, winner of the 2010 Turner Prize
• Andy Scott (born 1964), figurative sculptor
• Lucy Skaer (born 1975)
• Alan Lawson (born 1973)
• Evlynn Smith (1962–2003), artist, designer and furniture maker
• Alexander Stoddart (born 1959), neoclassical sculptor
• Thomson & Craighead (Alison Craighead born 1971), working with video and internet
• Jack Vettriano (born 1951), painter
• Alison Watt (born 1965), painter

Born 2000 and after

• Jack Henderson (born 2004)

See also

• Art in Scotland