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 by 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 North American portrait painter
 * 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
 * Alexander Carse (c. 1770–1843), painter known for scenes of Scottish life
 * 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
 * Jane Nasmyth (1788–1867), landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
 * Barbara Nasmyth (1790–1870), landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
 * Anne Nasmyth (1798–1874), landscape painter, daughter 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 mythical subjects
 * John Runciman (1744–1768/9), painter known for Biblical and literary scenes, brother of Alexander
 * Patrick Syme (1774–1845), flower-painter and color theorist
 * Archibald Skirving (1749–1819), portrait painter
 * Reverend John Thomson (1778–1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
 * William John Thomson RSA (1771–1845), portrait and miniaturist painter
 * George Watson (1767–1837), painter
 * David Wilkie (1785–1841), painter
 * Hugh William Williams (1773–1829), landscape painter
 * William Yellowlees (1796–1855), portrait painter

Born 1800–1899

 * John Brown Abercromby (1843–1929), painter ranging from traditional portraiture to avant-garde modernism
 * Patrick Adam (1852–1929), painter
 * Robert Adamson (1821–1848), photographer
 * John Macdonald Aiken (1880–1961), water-colourist and oil painter
 * Lena Alexander (1899–1983), painter
 * Jessie Algie (1859–1927), flower painter
 * Andrew Allan (1863–1942), lithographer
 * Robert Weir Allan (1851–1942), water-colour and oil painter of landscape and marine subjects
 * Marion Ancrum (fl. 1885–1919), water-colour painter
 * Hazel Armour (1894–1985), sculptor and medallist
 * James Arroll (1862–1936), painter
 * George Bain (1881–1968), art teacher whose writing revived interest in Celtic and Insular art
 * James Ballantine (1806–1877), artist and author
 * Penelope Beaton (1886–1963), painter
 * Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909), painter and illustrator
 * John Blair (c. 1849–1934), painter
 * Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher
 * Phyllis Bone (1894–1972), sculptor
 * William Bonnar (1800–1863), portraitist and history and genre painter
 * William Brodie (1815–1881), sculptor
 * Robert Brough (1872–1905), painter
 * John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), landscape artist
 * William Kellock Brown (1856–1934), sculptor
 * Elizabeth York Brunton (1880 – c. 1960), painter
 * 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
 * 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
 * Thomas J Clapperton (1879–1962), sculptor
 * James Cowie (1886–1956), painter
 * Hugh Adam Crawford (1898–1982), painter
 * William Crozier (1893–1930), landscape painter
 * Jessie Alexandra Dick (1896–1976), painter and teacher
 * Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822–1891), painter
 * Thomas Millie Dow (1848–1919), painter, member of the Glasgow Boys school
 * Jack M. Ducker (born 1890), painter specializing 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
 * Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), sculptor specialising in war memorials and tombs
 * Robert Gavin (1827–1883), painter
 * William Geissler (1894–1963), water-colourist 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
 * Mary Grant 1831–1908, sculptor
 * Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1931), Glasgow School artist
 * Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964), portraitist
 * James Guthrie (1859–1930), painter
 * Maggie Hamilton (1867–1952), 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
 * Amelia Robertson Hill (née Paton, 1821–1904), sculptor and artist, wife of David Octavius
 * 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), portrait painter and book author
 * George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931), painter and Scottish Colourist
 * Beatrice Huntington (1889–1988), artist, sculptor and musician
 * John Hutchison, (1832–1910), sculptor
 * Alexander Johnston (1815–1891), painter known for genre and history subjects
 * Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980), painter of landscapes and portraits, especially children
 * Jeka Kemp (1876–1966), painter
 * Annabel Kidston (1896–1981), painter
 * Jessie M King (1875–1949), illustrator mainly of children's books, designer of jewellery and fabric
 * Thomson Kirkwood (1820–1902), painter of landscapes and rural scenes
 * Annie Rose Laing (1869–1946), painter
 * 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 in water-colours
 * 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, water-colourist and print-maker
 * Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (1860–1947), painter and print-maker
 * Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)
 * Frances MacDonald (1873–1921), Glasgow School artist, sister of Margaret
 * Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), Glasgow School artist, wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
 * James MacGillivray (1856–1938), sculptor
 * William York Macgregor (1855–1923), landscape artist
 * Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934), painter and engraver
 * Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), architect, designer, husband of Margaret MacDonald
 * Chica Macnab (1889–1980), painter and wood engraver
 * 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), water-colourist
 * 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 Oriental subjects
 * James Coutts Michie (1859–1919), landscape and portrait painter
 * Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928), artist known as one of the Glasgow Boys
 * James MacLauchlan Nairn (1859–1904), Glasgow-born painter who influenced late 19th-century New Zealand painting
 * Charlotte Nasmyth (1804–1884), landscape painter, daughter of Alexander Nasmyth
 * Jessie Newbery (1864–1948), Glasgow School artist and embroiderer
 * James Campbell Noble (1846–1913), landscape and marine painter
 * Robert Noble, (1857–1917), painter of 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
 * Viola Paterson (1899–1981), painter, wood engraver
 * Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901), painter of religious subjects
 * Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935), member of the Scottish Colourist 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
 * Annie Pirie Quibell (1862–1927), artist and archaeologist
 * Arabella Rankin (1871 – c. 1935) painter and coloured woodcut artist
 * Anne Redpath (1895–1967), artist best known for still life 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, including the statue of Sir Walter Scott at the Scott Monument
 * David Watson Stevenson (1842–1904), sculptor of 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 of portraits
 * Adam Bruce Thomson (1885–1976), The Edinburgh School artist, landscape and portrait painter
 * Ottilie Maclaren Wallace (1875–1947), sculptor
 * 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
 * Gordon Robert Archibald (1905–1980), painter
 * Eric Auld (1931–2013), painter
 * Robert Bain (1911–1973), sculptor and art professor 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, film-maker and theatre designer
 * Douglas Robertson Bisset (1908–2000), sculptor
 * Sam Black (1913–1997)
 * Robert Henderson Blyth (1919–1970)
 * Leonard Boden (1911–1999), portrait painter
 * Margaret Boden (1912–2001), painter
 * 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
 * Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962), painter and print-maker
 * Henry Robertson Craig (1916–1984) landscape and flower painter
 * Victoria Crowe (born 1945)
 * Richard Demarco (born 1930), artist and promoter of visual and performing arts
 * David Abercrombie Donaldson (1916–1996), painter and limner to Her Majesty The Queen
 * Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay (1902–1968), sculptor and modeller
 * Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), sculptor and installation artist
 * Hannah Frank (1908–2008), artist and sculptor
 * Alison Cornwall Geissler MBE, (1907–2011), glass engraver
 * Marianne Grant (1921–2007), artist
 * Tom Gourdie (1913–2005), artist
 * Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), artist and writer
 * Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998), painter and sculptor
 * Alison Kinnaird M.B.E (born 1949), glass artist, musician, teacher and writer
 * Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
 * Edwin G Lucas (1911–1990), painter
 * Robert MacBryde (1913–1966), painter and theatre-set designer
 * 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 (1932–2020), landscape painter
 * John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948), expressionist oil painter of Scottish landscapes
 * 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
 * Pat Semple (1939–2021), landscape artist
 * Pamela So (1947–2010), multimedia artist and photographer
 * Ancell Stronach (1901–1981), artist
 * Alan Sutherland (1931–2019), portrait painter
 * Alasdair Taylor (1934–2007), sculptor
 * Sylvia Wishart (1936–2008), Orcadian landscape artist
 * George Wyllie MBE (1921–2012), sculptor known for 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 2011 Turner Prize
 * Martin Boyce (born 1967), sculptor
 * Hugh Buchanan (born 1958), water-colourist
 * Roderick Buchanan (born 1965), artist working in film and photography
 * Paul Carter (1970–2006) artist known for constructions
 * Stephen Conroy (born 1964)
 * Andrew Cranston (born 1969), painter
 * Ken Currie (born 1960), English-born member of New Glasgow Boys
 * Helen Denerley (born 1956), sculptor often reusing scrap
 * Alan Dimmick (born 1956), photographer of the Glasgow art scene.
 * Helen Douglas (book artist) (born 1952), book artist
 * Kate Downie (born 1958), painter and print-maker
 * Erica Eyres (born 1980), Canadian-born artist
 * Lizzie Farey (born 1962), willow sculptor and artist
 * Michael Fullerton (born 1971), portrait painter based in London
 * Anya Gallaccio (born 1963), creator of minimalist installations
 * Douglas Gordon (born 1966), winner of 1996 Turner Prize
 * Andrew Grassie (born 1966), painter in tempera
 * Claire Harrigan (born 1964), painter
 * Peter Howson (born 1958), painter and official war artist
 * 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), artist
 * Susan Philipsz OBE (born 1965), sound installation artist, winner of 2010 Turner Prize
 * Andy Scott (born 1964), figurative sculptor
 * Lucy Skaer (born 1975), sculptor and painter
 * Carol Rhodes (1959–2018), painter
 * Evlynn Smith (1962–2003), artist, designer and furniture maker
 * Alexander Stoddart (born 1959), neoclassical sculptor
 * Thomson & Craighead (Alison Craighead born 1971), works with video and internet
 * Jack Vettriano (born 1951), painter
 * Alison Watt (born 1965), painter