List of British artists

This is a partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically (artists born in the same year should be arranged alphabetically within that year).

Born before 1700

 * Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England
 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1520–c.1590) – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century
 * George Gower (1540–1596) – English portrait painter
 * Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) – English goldsmith, limner, portrait miniature painter
 * Rowland Lockey (c.1565–1616) – English goldsmith, portrait miniaturist, painter
 * Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617) – French-born English portrait miniature painter
 * Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) – Flemish Baroque painter, watercolourist and etcher who became court painter in England
 * Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) – Czech etcher
 * Samuel Cooper (c.1608–1672) – English miniature painter
 * John Michael Wright (1617–1694) – British baroque portrait painter
 * Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England
 * Francis Barlow (c.1626–1704) – English painter, etcher, and illustrator
 * David Loggan (1635–1692) – English baroque painter, born in Danzig
 * Godfrey Kneller (1646/9–1723) – portrait painter in England
 * Edward Pierce (1630–1695)
 * Francis Place (1647–1728) – English potter and engraver
 * James Thornhill (1675–1734) – English painter of historical subjects
 * Jonathan Richardson (1665–1745) – English portrait painter
 * Peter Monamy (1681–1749) – English marine painter
 * John Wootton (1682–1764) – English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes
 * Pieter Andreas Rysbrack (1685 or 1690–1748) – Flemish painter working in London
 * John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) – Flemish sculptor working in London
 * John Vanderbank (1694–1739) – English portrait painter and book illustrator
 * William Hogarth (1697–1764) – English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist

Born 1700–1799

 * Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865) – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects.
 * Louis-François Roubiliac (1702/5–1762) – French sculptor whose works reside in Westminster Abbey
 * Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter
 * James Seymour (c.1702–1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art
 * William Hoare (c.1707–1792) – English painter especially of pastels
 * Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
 * Arthur Devis (c.1712–1787) – English portrait painter, especially of conversation pieces and other small portraits
 * Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) – Scottish portrait painter
 * Richard Wilson 	(1713–1782) – Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy
 * Alexander Cozens (c.1717–1786) – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting
 * Charles Brooking (1723–1759) – English painter
 * Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – English painter specialising in portraits
 * George Stubbs (1724–1806) – British painter especially of horses
 * James Lambert (1725–1788) – English landscape painter
 * Francis Cotes (1726–1770) – English painter
 * Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) – English portrait and landscape painter
 * Paul Sandby (1730–1809) – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
 * Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) – English animal painter
 * Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England
 * George Romney (1734–1802) – English portrait painter
 * Joseph Wright (1734–1797) – English landscape and portrait painter
 * Alexander Runciman (1736–1785) – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects
 * Mary Black (c.1737–1814) – English portrait painter
 * Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823) – sculptor from London
 * Francis Towne (1739/40–1816) – English watercolour painter
 * Angelica Kauffman (1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter
 * Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) – English artist of French origin
 * William Marlow (1740–1813) – English landscape and marine artist
 * John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings
 * Matthew William Peters (1742–1814) English portrait painter
 * James Barry (1741–1806) – Irish painter
 * Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin
 * Richard Cosway (1742–1821) – English portrait painter, miniaturist
 * Ozias Humphry (1742–1810) – English painter of portrait miniatures
 * John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes
 * Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist
 * Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver
 * Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
 * Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter
 * Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) – English artist and caricaturist
 * William Blake (1757–1827) – English poet, painter, and printmaker
 * Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840) – Scottish portrait and landscape painter
 * Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) – English portrait painter
 * Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – English painter, mostly of portraits
 * Charles Fairfield (1761?–1805) – English painter, mostly known as a copyist
 * John Charles Felix Rossi (1762–1839) – sculptor
 * Arthur William Devis (1762–1822) – English painter of history paintings and portraits
 * George Morland (1763–1804) – English painter of animals and rustic scenes
 * Joshua Cristall (1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter
 * John Crome (1768–1821) – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters
 * James Ward (1769–1859) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
 * Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) – English portrait and subject painter
 * Henry James Richter (1772–1857) – engraver and painter
 * François Hüet Villiers (1772–1813) – French-born portrait painter, resident in London
 * Anne Frances Byrne (1775–1837) – painter of flowers and still lifes
 * Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) – English painter, watercolourist, and etcher
 * Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet (1775–1852) – painter of landscapes and horses
 * J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) – English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
 * John Constable (1776–1837) – English Romantic painter
 * John Higton (1776–1827) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
 * Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820) – painter of religious subjects
 * John Masey Wright (1777–1866) – watercolour painter
 * John Varley (1778–1842) – English watercolour painter and astrologer
 * Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844) – English landscape painter
 * Samuel Colman (1780–1845) – English painter
 * James Holworthy (1781–1841) – watercolour painter
 * John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) – artist of the Norwich school, mainly in watercolour
 * Frederick Nash (painter) (1782–1856) – architectural and landscape painter
 * David Cox (1783–1859) – English landscape painter
 * Samuel Prout (1783–1852) – English watercolour painter
 * Peter De Wint (1784–1849) – English landscape painter
 * John Romney (1785–1863) – mainly printmaking and watercolour
 * David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Scottish painter
 * William Mulready (1786–1863) – Irish genre painter living in London
 * Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) – English historical painter and writer
 * Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831) – Scottish landscape painter
 * John Martin (1789–1854) – English painter
 * William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) – English watercolor painter
 * George Hayter (1792–1871) English painter, specialising in portraits
 * John Linnell (1792–1882) – English landscape painter
 * Francis Danby (1793–1861) – Irish painter
 * Edward Calvert (1799–1883) – English printmaker and painter
 * James Holland (1799–1870) – landscape painter and illustrator
 * David Ogborne (died 1800/1) – English painter of events and curiosities in Essex
 * Eglington Margaret Pearson (died 1823) – stained glass painter
 * Cosmo Armstrong (died 1847) – English line-engraver.

Born 1800–1899

 * Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) – English Romantic landscape painter
 * Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873) – English painter and sculptor especially of animals, particularly horses, dogs and stags
 * Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) – English watercolor painter
 * Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals
 * John Steell (1804–1891) – Scottish sculptor
 * John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) – Orientalist English painter
 * Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
 * William Dyce (1806–1864) – Scottish artist
 * John Greville Fennell (1807-1885) – landscape painter
 * Arthur Elliot (1809–1892) – British watercolourist
 * Thomas Mogford (1809–1868) – English portrait painter and landscape painter
 * James John Hill (1811–1882) – English painter
 * Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) – English painter
 * Lucette Barker (1816–1905) – English painter
 * William James Blacklock (1816–1858) – English landscape artist, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders
 * Edward Armitage (1817–1896) – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects
 * Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes
 * Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
 * Alfred Tippinge (1817–1898) – British Grenadier Guard who sent home paintings of the Crimean War
 * George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) – English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement
 * Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer
 * William Hemsley (1819–1906) – English genre painter; vice president of the Society of British Artists
 * William Powell Frith (1819–1909) – English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives
 * George Gammon Adams (1821–1898)- English sculptor and medallist
 * Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) – English painter of moral and historical subjects
 * Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893) – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America
 * Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910) – Anglo-Irish artist
 * Frederick Goodall (snr) (1822–1904) – English artist specialising in oriental scenes
 * Frederick William Keyl (1823–1871) – German-born British painter of animals
 * Charles Davidson (1824–1902) – English watercolour painter
 * Henry Alexander Bowler (1824–1903) – English painter and academic
 * Abraham Solomon (1824–1862) – English painter
 * Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet
 * Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – English educationalist and landscape artist
 * William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) – British painter, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 * Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828–1907) – English watercolour artist and illustrator
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
 * Anna Blunden (1829–1915) – English painter
 * James Docharty (1829–1878) – Scottish landscape painter
 * Edwin Long (1829–1890) – English orientalist painter, depicting Biblical and Middle Eastern subjects
 * John Everett Millais (1829–1896) – English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 * John Henry Dell (1830–1888) – English painter and illustrator
 * Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896) – English painter
 * Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) – English painter and sculptor especially of historical, biblical and classical subject matter
 * Charles James Lewis (1830–1892) – English painter in oils and watercolours
 * Marianne North (1830–1890) – English naturalist and flower painter
 * Walter Severn (1830–1904) – English watercolourist
 * John William Bailey (1831–1914) – British miniature painter
 * Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923) – English painter
 * Louise Rayner (1832–1924) – English watercolourist
 * Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) – English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 * William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910) – Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects
 * Daniel Charles Grose (1832–1900) – English painter
 * Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) – English artist and designer
 * Joseph Clark (1834–1926), English oil painter of domestic scenes
 * William Morris (1834–1896) – English artist, writer, and socialist
 * James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) – American-born, British-based painter and etcher
 * Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906) – English painter of churches and cathedrals
 * William McTaggart (1835–1910) – Scottish landscape painter
 * Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875) – British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator
 * John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) – English painter especially of landscapes
 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – British classical-subject painter
 * James Tissot (1836–1902) – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects
 * Horatio Joseph Lucas (1839-1873), English artist
 * Simeon Solomon (1840–1905) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter
 * Frederick Walker (1840–1875) – English Social Realist painter and illustrator in watercolours and oils
 * Albert Moore (1841–1893) – English painter especially of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world
 * Alexander Rossi (1841–1916) – British artist specializing in genre works
 * Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – British marine painter and watercolourist
 * William John Seward Webber (1842–1919), English sculptor
 * Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894) – English painter and watercolourist
 * Walter Crane (1845–1915) – English artist and book illustrator
 * Frank Holl (1845–1888) – English painter
 * Walter Greaves (1846–1930) – English painter
 * James Campbell Noble (1846–1913) – Scottish landscape, seascape and portrait painter
 * John Eyre (1847–1927) – English genre painter, illustrator, painted and designed pottery
 * Ralph Hedley (1848–1913) – English realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator
 * John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter especially of female characters from mythology and literature
 * Henry Richard Hope-Pinker (1850–1927) – English sculptor
 * John Collier (1850–1934) – British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style
 * Robert Weir Allan (1851–1942) – Glasgow born painter of landscape and marine subjects
 * John Charles Dollman (1851–1934) – English narrative, landscape and animal painter
 * Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914) – English painter in a Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism style
 * Edmund Leighton (1853–1922) – English painter in Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic styles
 * Frank Dicksee (1853–1928) – English Victorian painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes
 * Maude Goodman (1853–1938) (a.k.a. Matilda Scanes) – English Victorian fine art painter and children's book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings
 * Caroline Gotch (1854–1945) – English painter associated with the Newlyn School of artists
 * Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) – English painter
 * Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) – Cornish fisherman and artist
 * David Winder (1855–1933) – Bolton, Lancashire-born British artist; oil and watercolour
 * James Pittendreigh MacGillivray (1856–1938) – Scottish sculptor
 * Alfred William Rich (1856–1921) – English landscape artist
 * John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) – Expatriate American living in England; leading portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolorist
 * Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes
 * Joseph Benwell Clark (1857–1938) – English landscape painter and book illustrator
 * Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947) – British artist, founder of the Newlyn School
 * Arthur Hacker (1858–1919) – English classicist painter
 * Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929) – English painter who lived in Cornwall, best known for his maritime paintings and male nudes
 * Walter Sickert (1860–1942) – English Impressionist painter
 * Solomon Joseph Solomon (1860–1927) – English painter of mythological scenes and portraits
 * Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942) – English artist
 * Harriet Isabel Adams (1863–1952) – British artist and illustrator
 * Lily Delissa Joseph (1863–1940) – English painter
 * Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864–1898) – church decorative artist
 * Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864–1950) – Scottish painter
 * Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) – English painter
 * William Edwin Pimm (1864–1952) – British artist, oil and watercolours
 * Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864–1930) – English painter
 * Arthur Lowe (painter) (1865–1940) – English landscape artist from Kinoulton, Nottingham
 * Robert Bevan (1865–1925) – British painter
 * H. Gustave Hiller (1865–1946) – mainly of stained glass
 * Roger Fry (1866–1934) – English artist and art critic
 * Henry Charles Fehr (1867–1940) – English sculptor
 * Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory
 * Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer
 * J M Balliol Salmon (1868–1953) – British painter
 * Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954) – English painter
 * Ursula Wood (1868–1925) – English painter
 * Lamorna Birch (1869–1955) – English painter
 * Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958) – English equine artist
 * Henry Crocket (1870–1926) – landscape painter
 * William Ratcliffe (1870–1955) – English artist
 * Phelan Gibb (1870–1948) – British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910–1914
 * Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871–1958) – Scottish artist
 * Florence Engelbach (1872–1951) – English painter born in Spain
 * Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) – English artist and illustrator
 * William Nicholson (1872–1949) – English painter, illustrator and author of children's books
 * Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) – English illustrator and author especially of erotic illustrations
 * Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945) – English artist and illustrator
 * Louie Burrell (1873–1971) – English painter
 * Francis William Doyle Jones (1873–1938) – English sculptor
 * Isabel Codrington (1874–1943) – English painter
 * John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961) – Scottish artist, one of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
 * Hilda May Gordon (1874–1972) – British watercolourist
 * Frank O. Salisbury (1874–1962) – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works
 * Dorothea Sharp (1874–1955) – British landscape painter
 * Eleanor Best (1875–1957) – portrait and figure painter
 * Evelyn Cheston (1875–1929) – English landscape painter
 * Alice Kirkby Goyder (1875–1964) – English painter and etcher
 * Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970) – English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits, and industrial paintings
 * Henry Bates Joel (1875–1922) – English landscape painter
 * Margaret Fisher Prout (1875–1963) – English painter
 * Walter Dexter (1876–1958) – English oil and watercolour artist, particularly of Norfolk
 * Harold Gilman (1876–1919) – English artist and founder-member of the Camden Town Group
 * Gwen John (1876–1939) – Welsh artist
 * Horace Tuck (1876–1951) – Norfolk artist of oil and watercolour landscapes
 * Florence Mabel Hollams (1877–1963) – painter of dogs and horses
 * Laura Knight (1877–1970) – British artist
 * Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958) – English artist
 * Donald Maxwell (1877–1936) – English illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours
 * Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960) – English sculptor and painter
 * Denis Eden (1878–1949) – painter and illustrator
 * Charles Ginner (1878–1952) – French-born painter, member of Camden Town Group
 * Spencer Gore (1878–1914) – British painter who was first president of the Camden Town Group
 * Augustus John (1878–1961) – Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher
 * Louis Frederick Roslyn (1878–1940) – English sculptor
 * Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (1878–1959) – English artist, particularly renowned for equine subject matter
 * Ada Hill Walker (1879–1955) – scientific illustrator and artist
 * William Reid Dick (1879–1961) – Scottish sculptor
 * Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) – English painter and interior designer
 * Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966) – English landscape painter
 * Matthew Smith (1879–1959) – English painter
 * Malcolm Drummond (1880–1945) – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors
 * Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture
 * Elsie Henderson (1880–1967) – English painter and sculptor
 * Harry Morley (1881–1943) – English painter
 * Eric Gill (1882–1940) – British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker
 * Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) – English painter and author
 * Henry Lamb (1883–1960) – Australian-born British painter
 * Victoria Monkhouse (1883–1970) – English painter
 * Arthur Watts (1883–1935) – illustrator
 * Montague Birrell Black (1884-1964) – English illustrator and painter
 * Elinor Proby Adams (1885–1945) – English painter
 * Duncan Grant (1885–1978) – Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group
 * Gwen Raverat (1885–1957) – English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers
 * Randolph Schwabe (1885–1948) – English artist
 * Joseph Hermon Cawthra (1886–1971) – English sculptor
 * Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (1886–1911) – English painter
 * Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) – English artist and occultist
 * L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) – English artist
 * Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950) – English artist and theatre designer
 * Arthur James F. Bond (1888–1958) – English painter of maritime subjects
 * Sydney Carline (1888–1929) – English artist
 * David Dougal Williams (June 1888–28 September 1944) – British artist and art teacher
 * Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter
 * Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970) – English painter
 * Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural history
 * Paul Nash (1889–1946) – English war artist
 * Christopher Nevinson (1889–1946) – English painter and vorticist
 * Ruth Simpson (1889–1964) – English portrait painter
 * Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) – English artist
 * David Bomberg (1890–1957) – English painter and one of the Whitechapel Boys
 * Charles Cundall (1890–1971) – English painter
 * Joseph Gray (1890–1963) – English painter
 * Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) – Welsh artist and writer
 * Francis Helps (1890–1972) – English artist
 * Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890–1978) – English artist
 * Iain Macnab (1890–1967) – Scottish painter
 * Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) – English painter
 * Leon Underwood (1890–1975) – British sculptor, painter, and engraver
 * Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915) – French sculptor and vorticist
 * Mark Gertler (1891–1939) – British portrait and landscape painter
 * Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) – English painter
 * Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891–1966) – English portrait painter
 * Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975) – German born British sculptor
 * Colin Gill (1892–1940) – English painter
 * Gilbert Spencer (1892–1978) – British painter
 * Harold Sandys Williamson (1892–1978) – British painter
 * John Armstrong (1893–1973) – British artist
 * John Nash (1893–1977) – English painter, illustrator, and engraver
 * Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) – English painter
 * Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) – English painter and etcher
 * Leonard Squirrell (1893–1979) – English watercolourist and etcher
 * Henry Matthew Talintyre (1893–1962) – British artist
 * Flora Twort (1893–1985) – English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels
 * Henry Carr (1894–1970) – British painter
 * Meredith Frampton (1894–1984) – British artist
 * Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) – Cornish painter
 * Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) – English abstract painter
 * Dora Clarke (1895–1989) – English sculptor
 * David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet
 * William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist
 * Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) – British artist
 * Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) – British artist
 * Harry Barr (1896-1987) – English painter
 * John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) – New Zealand born illustrator
 * Harold Williamson (1898–1972) – British painter, designer, etcher and teacher
 * Henry Moore (1898–1986) – English artist and sculptor
 * Rodney Joseph Burn (1899–1984) – English artist
 * Winifred Knights (1899–1947) – English painter

Born 1900–1949

 * Joseph Mellor Hanson (1900–1963)
 * Ursula Edgcumbe (1900–1985)
 * Barbara Greg (1900–1983)
 * George Lambourn (1900–1977)
 * Roland Penrose (1900–1984)
 * Harold Tamblyn-Watts (1900–1999)
 * Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983)
 * Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
 * Ancell Stronach (1901–1981) – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art
 * Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
 * Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
 * Jean Clark (1902–1999)
 * Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
 * Aileen Eagleton (1902–1984)
 * Simon Elwes (1902–1975)
 * Robin Guthrie (1902–1971)
 * Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
 * Ray Howard-Jones (1903–1996)
 * Charles Mahoney (1903–1968)
 * John Piper (1903–1992)
 * Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
 * Richard Eurich (1903–1992)
 * Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
 * Albert Houthuesen (1903–1979)
 * Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
 * Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
 * Peggy Angus (1904–1993)
 * Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
 * Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
 * Stephen Bone (1904–1958)
 * Evan Charlton (1904–1984)
 * Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
 * Reg Bunn (1905–1971)
 * Edward Burra (1905–1976)
 * Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981)
 * Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
 * Morris Kestelman (1905–1998)
 * Kenneth Martin (1905–1984)
 * Robert Medley (1905–1994)
 * Vernon Ward (1905–1985)
 * Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
 * Kathleen Allen (1906–1983)
 * Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960)
 * Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
 * Joan Hassall (1906–1988)
 * Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
 * Kenneth Steel (1906–1970)
 * Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998)
 * Phyllis Ginger (1907–2005)
 * James McIntosh Patrick (1907–1998) – Scottish landscape painter
 * Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye (1907–2005)
 * Claude Rogers (1907–1979)
 * William Coldstream (1908–1987)
 * Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
 * Norman Hepple (1908–1994)
 * Victor Pasmore (1908–1998)
 * Stella Schmolle (1908–1975)
 * Carel Weight (1908–1997)
 * Francis Bacon (1909–1992) – born in Ireland
 * Dorothea Braby (1909–1987)
 * Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
 * Leonard Daniels (1909–1998)
 * Paul Lucien Dessau (1909–1999)
 * Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976)
 * Gwynneth Holt (1909–1995) – ivory sculptor
 * Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)
 * Eric Taylor (1909–1999)
 * Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
 * Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
 * Pamela Drew (1910–1989)
 * Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)
 * Rodrigo Moynihan (1910–1990)
 * Rosemary Allan (1911–2008)
 * Phyllis Bray (1911–1991)
 * John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
 * Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
 * Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
 * Nicolette Macnamara (1911–1987)
 * Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
 * Andrew Freeth (1912–1986)
 * Erlund Hudson (1912–2011)
 * Georgina Hunt (1912–2012)
 * Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)
 * Reg Butler (1913–1981)
 * Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
 * Joan Hutt (1913–1985)
 * Leonard Rosoman (1913–2012)
 * Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)
 * Harold Hitchcock (1914–2009)
 * Frances Macdonald (1914–2002)
 * Charles Mozley (1914–1991)
 * Frank Roper (1914–2000) – sculptor
 * Doris Blair (born 1915)
 * Mary Fedden (1915–2012)
 * Dennis Flanders (1915–1994)
 * Wendy F. Walsh (1915–2014) – illustrator and botanical artist
 * Norman Whitehead (1915–1983)
 * Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
 * John Bridgeman (1916–2004)
 * Margaret Thomas (1916–2016) – painter
 * James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)
 * John Kashdan (1917–2001)
 * Anthony Robert Klitz (1917–2000)
 * John Minton (1917–1957)
 * Mona Moore (1917–2000)
 * Estella Campavias (1918–1990)
 * John Kyffin Williams (1918–2006)
 * Peter Lanyon (1918–1964)
 * Richard Vicary (1918–2006) – printmaker
 * Eden Box (1918–1988)
 * Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
 * Norman Cornish (1919–2014)
 * Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
 * Cliff Holden (1919–2020)
 * Peter Wright (1919–2003)
 * Michael Ford (1920–2005)
 * Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
 * Robert Tavener (1920–2004)
 * Françoise Taylor (1920–2007) – born in Belgium, British by marriage
 * Derek Chittock (1922–1986)
 * Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
 * Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
 * Eduardo Paolozzi (1922–2005)
 * Miles Richmond (1922–2008)
 * Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
 * William McLaren (1923–1987)
 * Anthony Caro (1924–2013)
 * Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)
 * Erich von Götha de la Rosière (born 1924)
 * Keith Sutton (1924–1991)
 * Beryl Cook (1926–2008)
 * Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
 * Michael Edmonds (1926–2014)
 * Leon Kossoff (1926–2019)
 * Edna Mann (1926–1985)
 * Tom McGuinness (1926–2006)
 * Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
 * Greta Tomlinson (1927–2021)
 * Michael Andrews (1928–1995)
 * John Copnall (1928–2007)
 * Dora Holzhandler (1928–2015) – born in Paris to Polish parents but lived in London
 * Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995)
 * Dorothy Mead (1928–1975)
 * Joe Tilson (born 1928)
 * John Scanes (1928–2004)
 * Victor Willing (1928–1988)
 * Barbara Balmer (1929–2017)
 * Zelda Nolte (1929–2003)
 * Fred Cuming (1930-2022)
 * Mardi Barrie (1930–2004)
 * Robyn Denny (1930–2014)
 * David Gentleman (born 1930)
 * Donald Pass (1930–2010)
 * Frank Auerbach (born 1931)
 * Dennis Creffield (1931–2018)
 * Ken Messer (1931–2018)
 * Malcolm Morley (1931–2018) – first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984
 * Bridget Riley (born 1931)
 * Valerie Thornton (1931–1991)
 * Audrey Barker (1932–2002)
 * Peter Blake (born 1932)
 * Nina Carroll (1932–1990)


 * Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
 * Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) – royal painter
 * Ken Howard (1932–2022)
 * R. B. Kitaj (1932–2007) – born in the United States
 * Euan Uglow (1932–2000)
 * Marc Vaux (born 1932)
 * Ian Weatherhead (born 1932)
 * Richard Allen (1933–1999)
 * John Furnival (1933–2020) – artist of visual and concrete poetry
 * Vincent Haddelsey (1934–2010)
 * John Hoyland (1934–2011)
 * Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
 * Garth Evans (born 1934) – sculptor
 * Rose Wylie (born 1934) – painter
 * Paula Rego (1935–2022) – born in Portugal
 * Frank Bowling (born 1936)
 * Tony Foster (born 1936) – painter
 * Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
 * David Hall (1937–2014)
 * David Hockney (born 1937)
 * Allen Jones (born 1937)
 * Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
 * Pamela Scott Wilkie (born 1937)
 * Margot Perryman (born 1938)
 * Carole Steyn (born 1938)
 * William Tillyer (born 1938)
 * Terry Atkinson (born 1939)
 * Rose Frain (born 1939)
 * Anthony Green (1939–2023)
 * Patrick Hughes (born 1939)
 * Ian Hunter (1939–2017) – Dean of Saint Martin's School of Art
 * John Walker (born 1939) – painter and printmaker
 * John Byrne (born 1940)
 * Peter Liddle (born 1940)
 * Barry Flanagan (1941–2009)
 * Yvonne Hutton (1941–1991)
 * Geoffrey Key (born 1941)
 * Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
 * Peter Olley (born 1942)
 * Ruth Rix (born 1942)
 * Alan Aldridge (1938–2017)
 * Grange Calveley (1943–2021)
 * Errol Lloyd (born 1943)
 * Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
 * Graham Ovenden (1943–2022)
 * Valerie Wiffen (born 1943)
 * Zacron (1943–2012) – multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster
 * Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944)
 * Bruce McLean (born 1944)
 * David Paskett (born 1944)
 * Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
 * Maggi Hambling (born 1945)
 * Ed Herring (1945–2003)
 * Pete Hoida (born 1944)
 * Geoffrey Humphries (born 1945)
 * David Imms (born 1945)
 * Richard Long (born 1945)
 * Val Archer (born 1946)
 * Lewis Blake (born 1946)
 * Terance James Bond (1946–2023)
 * Paul Dash (born 1946)
 * Rose Garrard (born 1946)
 * Winston Branch (born 1947)
 * Paul Brown (born 1947) – digital artist
 * Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007) – sculptor
 * Richard Cook (born 1947)
 * Tam Joseph (born 1947)
 * Vikki Slowe (born 1947) – printmaker and painter
 * Linda Sutton (born 1947)
 * Godfrey Blow (born 1948)
 * Pete Gilbert (born 1948) – graphic designer and painter
 * Richard P. Cook (born 1949)
 * Richard Deacon (born 1949) – 1987 Turner Prize Winner
 * Paul Wager (born 1949) – painter and sculptor

Born 1950 and later

 * Sam Ainsley (born 1950)
 * Alison Dunhill (born 1950)
 * Antony Gormley (born 1950)
 * Edward Allington (1951–2017)
 * Humphrey Ocean (born 1951)
 * Richard Spare (born 1951)
 * Jeremy Henderson (1952–2009) – artist and painter
 * Colin Nichols (born 1952)
 * Tim Woolcock (born 1952) – Modern British painter painting in the tradition of the 1950s
 * Stephen Pusey (born 1952)
 * Alan Rankle (born 1952) – landscape painter
 * Jane Boyd (born 1953)
 * Pogus Caesar (born 1953) – born in St Kitts
 * Chris Gollon (1953–2017)
 * Monica Petzal (born 1953), painter and printmaker
 * Ingrid Pollard (born 1953)
 * Melinda Camber Porter (1953–2008) – painter, writer, filmmaker, journalist for The Times; lived in London, Paris, and New York
 * Charles Thomson (born 1953)
 * Martin Yeoman (born 1953)
 * Michael Clark (artist) (born 1954)
 * Lubaina Himid (born 1954)
 * Aidan Hughes (born 1954)
 * Anish Kapoor (born 1954)
 * Vivien Blackett (born 1955)
 * David Tress (born 1955)
 * Denzil Forrester (born 1956)
 * Errol Francis (born 1956)
 * Malcolm McGookin (born 1956)
 * Terry Smith (born 1956)
 * James Dodds (born 1957)
 * Jeremy Gardiner (born 1957)
 * Fiona Graham-Mackay (born 1957) – portraits of the royal family
 * Thomas Hodges (born 1957) – photographic and mixed media artist
 * Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
 * Willard Wigan (born 1957)
 * Simon Beck (artist) (born 1958) – snow artist
 * Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958)
 * Keith Coventry (born 1958)
 * Lennie Lee (born 1958) – born in South Africa
 * Jake Tilson (born 1958)
 * Andy Dog Johnson (1959–2016)
 * Claudette Johnson (born 1959)
 * Hew Locke (born 1959) – born in Scotland
 * Bruce Munro (born 1959)
 * Keith Salmon (born 1959) – Scottish landscape painter born in England
 * Suzzan Blac (born 1960)
 * Eddie Chambers (born 1960)
 * John Foulger (1960–2006)
 * Isaac Julien (born 1960)
 * Grayson Perry (born 1960)
 * Nick Fudge (born 1960)
 * Keith Piper (born 1960)
 * Yinka Shonibare (born 1960)
 * Julie Brook (born 1961)
 * Sonia Boyce (born 1962)
 * Jonathan S Hooper (born 1962)
 * Marion Kalmus (born 1962)
 * Sarah Lucas (born 1962)
 * Paul Mellia (born 1962)
 * Nick Miller (born 1962) – Irish painter born in England
 * Janette Parris (born 1962)
 * Nasser Azam (born 1963)
 * Nicola Bealing (born 1963)
 * Tracey Emin (born 1963)
 * Robert Fogell (born 1963)
 * Janette Parris (born 1963)
 * Dean Stalham (born c.1963)
 * Barbara Walker (born 1963)
 * Gillian Wearing (born 1963) – 1997 Turner Prize winner
 * Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) – 1993 Turner Prize winner
 * Frances Aviva Blane (born 1964)
 * Jonathan Ellery (born 1964)
 * Simon Gales (born 1964)
 * Hipkiss (born 1964)
 * Rachel Ara (born 1965)
 * Tom Cartmill (born 1965)
 * Adam Chodzko (born 1965)
 * Marion Coutts (born 1965)
 * Guy Denning (born 1965)
 * Damien Hirst (born 1965)
 * Jonathan Huxley (born 1965)
 * Robert Priseman (born 1965)
 * Fiona Banner (born 1966)
 * Fiona Crisp (born 1966) – photographer
 * Ian Davenport (born 1966)
 * Christian Furr (born 1966)
 * Igor Kufayev (born 1966)
 * Maria Marshall (born 1966)
 * Elizabeth Price (born 1966) – 2012 Turner Prize winner
 * Peter Brown (born 1967)
 * Serena de la Hey (born 1967), sculptor
 * Andy Lomas (born 1967)
 * Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967)
 * Paul Rooney (born 1967)
 * Chris Ofili (born 1968)
 * Suling Wang (born 1968)
 * Brita Granström (born 1969)
 * Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
 * Jonathan Myles-Lea (1969–2021) – painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes
 * Michael Gustavius Payne (born 1969)
 * Alexander Talbot Rice (born 1969) – society portrait painter
 * Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
 * Nina Murdoch (born 1970) – tempera painter
 * Mandy Wilkinson (born 1970)
 * Jonathan Kearney (born 1971)
 * David Emmanuel Noel (born 1972)
 * Anna Barriball (born 1972) – mixed media artist
 * Dee Ferris (born 1973)
 * Peter Liversidge (born 1973)
 * Banksy (reportedly born 1974)
 * Michael Takeo Magruder (born 1974) – new media and digital artist
 * Tom Palin (born 1974)
 * Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974) – savant artist
 * Graham Nicholls (born 1975)
 * Lucy Skaer (born 1975)
 * Amanda Ansell (born 1976)
 * Reuben Colley (born 1976)
 * Adelaide Damoah (born c.1977)
 * Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)
 * Conrad Shawcross (born 1977)
 * Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977)
 * Claire Hooper (born 1978)
 * David Spriggs (born 1978) – sculptor, installation artist
 * Angela Wakefield (born 1978)
 * Hannah Rickards (born 1979)
 * Fuller (born 1980)
 * Nick Gentry (born 1980)
 * Conor Harrington (born 1980)
 * Edward Kluz (born 1980)
 * Polly Morgan (born 1980)
 * Stuart Semple (born 1980)
 * Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983)
 * Anna King (born 1984)
 * Anthony Smith (born 1984) – bronze sculptor
 * Sarah Maple (born 1985) – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner
 * Emma Cousin (born 1986)
 * Johan Andersson (born 1986)
 * Nicola Frimpong (born 1987)
 * Seb Toussaint (born 1988) – street artist and painter
 * Nathan Wyburn (born 1989) – food artist
 * The Connor Brothers (born 1980s)
 * Sophie Green (born 1992)
 * Vanessa Lubach (fl 1990), printmaker