List of Scottish artists
Appearance
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).
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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[1]
- 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[2]
- 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[3]
- 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.[3]
- 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[3]
- 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
References
- ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
- ^ Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 173 2.
- ^ a b c David Buckman (1998). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 95326 095 X.