List of British painters

undefined The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order).

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 in Antwerp; Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
 * William Larkin (1580–1619)

Born 17th century

 * Emmanuel de Critz (1608–1665)
 * William Dobson (1610–1646)
 * John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
 * Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661)
 * Oliver de Critz (1626–1651)
 * Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713)
 * Edward Bower (fl. 1635–1667)
 * Henry Cooke (1642–1700)
 * Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
 * John Riley, or Ryley (1646–1691)
 * Marmaduke Cradock (1660–1716)
 * Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)
 * Edward Byng (c. 1676–1753)
 * Peter Monamy (1681–1749)
 * John Wootton (1682–1764)
 * Isaac Whood (1689–1752)
 * Joseph Highmore (1692–1780)
 * John Vanderbank (1694–1739)
 * William Hogarth (1697–1764)

Born 18th century

 * Thomas Hudson (1701–1779)
 * Mary Hoare (1744–1820)
 * William Hoare (c. 1707–1792)
 * Francis Hayman (1708–1776)
 * Sir William Beechey (1753–1839)
 * John Shackleton (1714–1767) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III
 * Richard Wilson (1714–1782)
 * William Keable (1714–1774)
 * 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
 * Peter Perez Burdett (c. 1734–1793)
 * George Romney (1734–1802)
 * Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
 * Jeremiah Meyer (1735–1789) –  born in Tübingen
 * Richard Wright (1735–c.1775)
 * Amos Green (1735–1807)
 * Mary Benwell (1739–after 1800)
 * John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779)
 * Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – born in Zürich
 * Matthew William Peters (1742–1814)
 * Mary Moser (1744–1819)
 * William Hodges (1744–1797)
 * Henry Walton (1746–1813)
 * William Tate (1747–1806)
 * Richard Morton Paye (1751–1820)
 * Joseph Barney (1753–1832)
 * Charles Lewis (1753–1795) – still life painter
 * Maria Bell (1755–1825)
 * Prince Hoare the Younger (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
 * Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755–1802) – of Jersey
 * Thomas Stothard (1755–1834)
 * Henry Bone (1755–1834)
 * William Blake (1757–1827)
 * George William Sartorius (1759–1828)
 * Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803)
 * Sir Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
 * George Augustus Wallis (1761–1847)
 * George Morland (1763–1804)
 * Samuel Drummond (1766–1844)
 * John Crome (1768–1821)
 * Thomas Barker (1769–1847)
 * James Ward (1769–1859)
 * William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831)
 * 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)
 * William John Huggins (1781–1845), marine painter
 * Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1854)
 * John Sell Cotman (1782–1842)
 * David Cox (1783–1859)
 * Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
 * Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1785–1854)
 * 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
 * Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872)
 * Francis Danby (1793–1861)
 * Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859)
 * Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860)
 * Henry Collen (1797–1879)
 * Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
 * Joseph Stannard (1797–1830)
 * Frederick Richard Lee (1798–1879)
 * Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861)
 * Samuel Atkins, marine painter

Born 1800–1824

 * John Hayter (1800–1895)
 * Thomas Webster (1800–1886)
 * James Digman Wingfield (1800-1872)
 * Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
 * Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
 * John Scarlett Davis (1804–1845)
 * Edwin Wilkins Field (1804–1871)
 * William Knight Keeling (1807–1886)
 * George Armfield (1808–1893)
 * Thomas Baker (1809–1864)
 * William Edward Frost (1810–1877)
 * James Peel (1811-1906)
 * Henry Dawson (1811–1878)
 * Ebenezer Colls (1812–1887)
 * Richard Barnett Spencer (1812–1897)
 * Thomas Musgrave Joy (1812–1866)
 * Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876)
 * Harry Hall (c. 1814–1882)
 * John Absolon (1815–1895)
 * James Francis Danby (1816–1875)
 * Augustus Egg (1816–1863)
 * Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879)
 * Henry Mark Anthony (1817–1886)
 * Branwell Brontë (1817–1848)
 * Richard Dadd (1817–1886)
 * Thomas Danby (1817–1886)
 * John Callcott Horsley (1817–1903)
 * John Phillip (1817–1867)
 * George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
 * Margaret Backhouse (1818–1888)
 * Louisa Beresford (1818–1891)
 * John Anster Fitzgerald (c. 1819–1906)
 * William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
 * James Sant (1820–1916)
 * Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893)
 * Charles Elder (1821–1851)
 * Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901)
 * James Smetham (1821–1889)
 * Thomas Holroyd (1821–1904)
 * Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893)
 * Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
 * George Hardy (1822–1909)
 * William Simpson (1823–1899)
 * William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916)
 * Martha Darley Mutrie (1824–1885)
 * Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910)

Born 1825–1849

 * Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916)
 * Annie Feray Mutrie (1826–1893)
 * David Cooke Gibson (1827–1856)
 * Frederick Daniel Hardy (1827–1911)
 * William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
 * John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882)
 * George Bernard O'Neill (1828–1917)
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
 * Anna Blunden (1829–1915)
 * John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897)
 * John Finnie (1829–1907)
 * Edwin Long (1829–1890)
 * John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
 * John Samuel Raven (1829–1877)
 * Lord Frederick Leighton (1830–1896)
 * Helen Mabel Trevor (1831–1900)
 * Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
 * Louise Rayner (1832–1924)
 * Henrietta Ward (1832–1924)
 * George Henry Boughton (1833–1905)
 * Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898)
 * Benjamin Williams Leader (1833–1921)
 * Frederic Shields (1833–1911)
 * William Morris (1834–1896)
 * Emily Mary Osborn (1834–1913)
 * Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – born in Dronrijp
 * John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
 * Walter Field (1837–1901)
 * Charles Stuart (1838–1907)
 * Walter Goodman (1838–1912)
 * Horatio Joseph Lucas (1839-1873)
 * 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)
 * Edwin Ellis (1842–1895)
 * Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922)
 * Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – marine painter
 * Clara Montalba (1842–1929)
 * Herbert William Weekes (c. 1842–unknown)
 * Louise Jopling (1843–1933)
 * Bernard Walter Evans (1843–1922)
 * Isabel Dacre (1844–1933)
 * Tristram Ellis (1844–1922)
 * Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904)
 * Frances C. Fairman (1839–1923)
 * Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927)
 * Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933)
 * Edith Gittins (1845–1910)
 * Louisa Starr (1845–1909)


 * Edith Corbet (1846–1920)
 * Walter Greaves (1846–1930)
 * Kate Greenaway (1846–1901)
 * William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919)
 * Ellis Rowan (1847–1922)
 * Helen Allingham (1848–1926)
 * Helen Thornycroft (1848–1937)
 * John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
 * John Reinhard Weguelin (1849–1927)
 * William Thornley (fl. 1858–1898)

Born 1850–1874

 * Walter Daniel Batley (1850–1936)
 * John Collier (1850–1934)


 * Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914)
 * Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909)


 * George Clausen (1852–1944)
 * Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (1852–1944)
 * Charles Napier Kennedy (1852–1898)
 * Walter Langley (1852–1922)
 * Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)
 * Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
 * Alfred Robert Quinton (1853–1934)
 * Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854–1929)
 * Caroline Gotch (1854–1945)
 * Frank Markham Skipworth (1854–1929)
 * George Paice (1854–1925)
 * Edward Wilkins Waite (1854–1924)
 * Sara Page (1855–1943)
 * Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)


 * Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
 * Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)
 * Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893)
 * Jane Mary Dealy, Lady Lewis (1856–1939)
 * Alice Hirschberg (1856–1913)
 * 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)
 * George Henry (1858–1943)
 * Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes (1859–1912)


 * Henrietta Rae (1859–1928)
 * Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940)
 * Lewis Charles Powles (1860–1942)
 * Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951)
 * Margaret Bernadine Hall (1863–1910)
 * George Phoenix (1863–1935)
 * Arthur Wardle (1864–1949)
 * Arthur Lowe (1865–1940)
 * John Guille Millais (1865–1931)
 * Louise Pickard (1865–1928)
 * Charles Spencelayh (1865–1958)
 * Milly Childers (1866–1922)
 * Mary Davis, Lady Davis (1866–1941)
 * Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1940)
 * Roger Fry (1866–1934)
 * Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
 * Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) – born in Brussels
 * Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – born in Bruges
 * Percy Robertson (1868–1934)
 * Ursula Wood (1868–1925)
 * Mary Baylis Barnard (1870–1946)
 * Mary McEvoy (1870–1941)
 * Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898)
 * Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
 * William Heath Robinson (1872–1944)
 * Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1932)
 * Alexander Scott (1872–1932)
 * William Nicholson (1872–1949)
 * Louie Burrell (1873–1971)
 * Amy Drucker (1873–1951)
 * Arthur Miles Moss (1873-1948)
 * Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942)
 * Isabel Codrington (1874–1943)

Born 1875–1899

 * Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
 * Madge Oliver (1875–1924)
 * Sophie Atkinson (1876–1972)
 * Winifred Austen (1876–1964)
 * Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers (1876–1939)
 * Gwen John (1876–1939)


 * Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
 * Laura Knight (1877–1970)
 * Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967)
 * Walter Ernest Webster (1877–1959)
 * Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960)
 * Eliza Mary Burgess (1878–1961)
 * May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878–1943)
 * Augustus John (1878–1961)
 * Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
 * Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966)
 * John Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954)
 * Anna Airy (1882–1964)
 * Gladys Kathleen Bell (1882–1965)
 * Teresa Copnall (1882–1972)
 * Helen Edwards (1882–1963)
 * Richard Howard Penton (1882–1960)
 * Eleanor Hughes (1882–1952)
 * Averil Burleigh (1883–1949)
 * Montague Birrell Black 1884-1964)
 * John Currie (1884–1914)
 * Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)
 * Louisa Puller (1884–1963)
 * Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976)
 * Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
 * Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934)
 * Evelyn Abelson (1886–1967)
 * Mary Jewels (1886–1977)
 * James Ardern Grant (1887–1973)
 * Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
 * Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller (1887–1979)
 * Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950)
 * Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
 * Paul Cranfield Smyth (1888–1963)
 * Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960)
 * Nora Cundell (1889–1948)
 * Paul Nash (1889–1946)
 * Cedric Morris (1889–1982)
 * Marlow Moss (1889-1958)
 * Sir Henry Rushbury (1889–1968)
 * Ruth Simpson (1889–1964)
 * David Bomberg (1890-1957)
 * Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925)
 * Leon Underwood (1890–1975)
 * Grace English (1891–1956)
 * Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
 * Dora Carrington (1893–1932)
 * Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968)
 * Cowan Dobson (1894–1980)
 * Kaff Gerrard (1894–1970)
 * Meredith Frampton (1894–1984)
 * Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
 * Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)
 * Henry George Hoyland (1895-1947)
 * Harry Bateman (1896–1976)
 * George Bissill (1896–1973)
 * Leila Faithfull (1896–1994)
 * Billie Waters (1896–1979)
 * Dorothy Coke (1897–1979)
 * Hans Feibusch (1898–1998) – born in Frankfurt, resided in England 1934–1998
 * Winifred Knights (1899–1947)
 * Rose Henriques (1889–1972)
 * Francis Helps (1890–1972)

Unknown year, born 19th century

 * Edward Pritchett (fl. 1828–1864)


 * Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879)
 * Sara Macgregor (d. 1919)

Born 1900–1949

 * George Lambourn (1900–1977)
 * Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
 * John Mansbridge (1901–1981)
 * Marjorie May Bacon (1902–1988)
 * Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
 * Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
 * John Melville (1902–1986)
 * Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998)
 * John Piper (1903–1992)
 * Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
 * Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
 * Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
 * Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
 * Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
 * Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
 * George Fisher Gilmour (1904–1984)
 * J. Edward Smith (1905–1986)
 * Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
 * Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
 * Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997)
 * Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999)
 * Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
 * Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
 * Clifford Ellis (1907–1985)
 * Frank Egginton (1908–1990)
 * Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
 * Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
 * Mildred Eldridge (1909–1991)
 * Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
 * Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
 * Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956)
 * Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
 * John Bensusan-Butt (1911–1997)
 * John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
 * Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
 * Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
 * Fay Pomerance (1912–2001)
 * Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
 * Leonard Appelbee (1914–2000)
 * John Bridgeman (1914–2004)
 * Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008)
 * Doris Blair (born 1915)
 * Terry Frost (1915–2003)
 * William Gear (1915–1997)
 * Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
 * Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)
 * Michael Kidner (1917–2009)
 * Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
 * Eden Box (1919–1988)
 * Francis Davison (1919–1984)
 * Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
 * Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) – born in Berlin; lived in Liverpool
 * Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
 * John Christoforou (1921–2014)
 * John Craxton (1922–2009)
 * Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
 * Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
 * Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
 * Paul Bird (1923–1993)
 * Peter Folkes (1923–2019)
 * Martin Froy (1926–2017)
 * Ann Thetis Blacker (1927–2006)
 * Peter Brook (1927–2009)
 * John Plumb (1927–2008)
 * Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
 * John Copnall (1928–2007)
 * Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995)
 * Adrian Morris (1929–2004)
 * Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)
 * Mardi Barrie (1930–2004)
 * Robyn Denny (1930–2014)
 * Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959) – born in Germany
 * Martin Bradley (1931–2023)
 * Ken Messer (1931–2018)
 * Bridget Riley (born 1931)
 * Peter Blake (born 1932)
 * Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
 * Moira Huntly (born 1932)
 * Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010)
 * Marc Vaux (born 1932)
 * Alexander Goudie (1933–2004)
 * John Hoyland (1934–2011)
 * Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
 * Ivor Davies (born 1935)
 * Ken Kiff (1935–2001)
 * Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
 * Timothy Behrens (1937–2017)
 * David Hockney (born 1937)
 * Tess Jaray (born 1937)
 * Bryan Organ (born 1935)
 * Margot Perryman (born 1938)
 * William Tillyer (born 1938)
 * Mario Dubsky (1939–1985)
 * John Wonnacott (born 1940)
 * Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
 * Sheila Mullen (born 1942)
 * Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
 * Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944)
 * Claire Dalby (born 1944)
 * Bruce McLean (born 1944)
 * Jonathon Coudrille (born 1945)
 * P. J. Crook (born 1945)
 * Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
 * David Imms (born 1945)
 * Sean Scully (born 1945) – born in Dublin; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad.
 * Timothy Hyman (born 1946)
 * Tony Foster (born 1946)
 * Edward Kelly (born 1946)
 * John Virtue (born 1947)
 * Howard J. Morgan (1949–2020)
 * Terance James Bond (1946–2023)

Born 1950–1999

 * Cherryl Fountain (born 1950)
 * Roy Petley (born 1951)
 * Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952-2012)
 * Brian Clarke (born 1953)
 * Jeremy Henderson (born 1952)
 * Deirdre Hyde (born 1953)
 * Charlotte Verity (born 1954)
 * Vivien Blackett (born 1955)
 * Peter Edwards (born 1955)
 * Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955)
 * Jo Self (born 1956)
 * Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
 * John O'Carroll (born 1958)
 * Peter Doig (born 1959)
 * Claudette Johnson (born 1959)
 * David Leapman (born 1959)
 * Ian Davenport (born 1960)
 * Nick Fudge (born 1960)
 * Keith Piper (born 1960)
 * Sonia Boyce (born 1962)
 * Gary Hume (born 1962)
 * Tod Hanson (born 1963)
 * Guy Denning (born 1965)
 * Damien Hirst (born 1965)
 * George Shaw (born 1966)
 * Chris Ofili (born 1968)
 * Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
 * Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
 * Banksy (born c. 1974)
 * Tom Palin (born 1974)
 * Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975)
 * Idris Khan (born 1978)
 * Kate Groobey (born 1979)
 * David Wightman (born 1980)
 * Seb Toussaint (born 1988)

Unknown year, born 20th century

 * Freya Douglas-Morris
 * Charles Harris