List of painters by name beginning with "B"



Please add names of notable painters with a Wikipedia page, in precise English alphabetical order, using U.S. spelling conventions. Country and regional names refer to where painters worked for long periods, not to personal allegiances.


 * Dirck van Baburen (1595–1624), Dutch painter
 * Jacopo Baccarini (1605–1682), Italian painter
 * Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli (1733–1809 or later), German miniaturist and court painter
 * Marcello Bacciarelli (1731–1818), Italian/Polish painter
 * Irene Bache (1901–1999), English/Welsh painter
 * Augustin Meinrad Bächtiger (1888–1971), Swiss painter
 * Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1609–1651), Dutch painter
 * Margaret Backhouse (1818–1888), English portrait painter
 * Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Irish-born English painter
 * Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), American painter
 * Marjorie May Bacon (1902–1988), English painter and print-maker
 * Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), American print-maker and painter
 * Joseph Badger (ca. 1707–1765), American portrait painter
 * Ottó Baditz (1849–1936), Hungarian painter
 * Jan de Baen (1633–1702), Dutch portrait painter
 * Jo Baer (born 1929), American minimalist painter
 * William Jacob Baer (1860–1941), American miniature painter
 * Stanley Bahe, Navajo American painter
 * Leonard Bahr (1905–1990), American painter, muralist and illustrator
 * Edward Bailey (1814–1903), American/Hawaiian landscape painter
 * Alice Bailly (1872–1938), Swiss painter
 * David Bailly (1584–1657), Dutch painter
 * George Bain (1881–1968), Scottish artist and art teacher
 * Robert Bain (1911–1973), Scottish/South African sculptor and art professor
 * Thomas Baines (1820–1875), English painter and explorer
 * Baiōken Eishun (梅翁軒永春, fl. 1710–1755), Japanese painter and print-maker
 * Edward Baird (1904–1949), Scottish painter and draftsman
 * Kōno Bairei (幸野楳嶺, 1844–1895), Japanese painter and illustrator
 * Enrico Baj (1924–2003), Italian artist and writer on art
 * James Ballantine (1806–1877), Scottish glass painter and poet
 * Barbara Balmer (1929–2017), Scottish artist and art teacher
 * Mario Bardi (1922–1998), Italian realist painter
 * George Herbert Baker (1878–1943), American impressionist painter
 * Normand Baker (1908–1955), Australian portrait painter
 * William Bliss Baker (1859–1886), American painter
 * Ludolf Bakhuizen (1631–1708), Dutch marine painter
 * Léon Bakst (1866–1924), Russian/American painter and stage designer
 * Alesso Baldovinetti (1427–1499), Italian painter
 * Hans Baldung (1484–1545), German painter and print-maker
 * Hendrick van Balen (1575–1632), Flemish painter and stained-glass designer
 * Endre Bálint (1914–1986), Hungarian painter and graphic artist
 * Rezső Bálint (1885–1945), Hungarian painter
 * Pál Balkay (1785–1846), Hungarian painter and teacher
 * Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), Italian painter and poet
 * Robert Ballagh (born 1943), Irish painter and designer
 * Karl Ballmer (1891–1958), Swiss painter and philosopher
 * Barbara Balmer (1929–2017), Scottish painter and teacher
 * János Nagy Balogh (1874–1919), Hungarian painter
 * László Balogh (1930–2023), Hungarian painter
 * Balthus (1908–2001), Polish/French artist
 * Ernő Bánk (1883–1962), Hungarian painter, miniaturist and teacher
 * Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828–1901), Canadian/American tonalist painter
 * Bapu (1933–2014), Indian painter and film director
 * Miklós Barabás (1810–1898), Hungarian painter
 * Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888–1944), Russian/French avant-garde artist
 * Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1460/1470 – before 1516), Italian painter and print-maker
 * Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) (1591–1666), Italian painter and draftsman
 * Jenő Barcsay (1900–1988), Hungarian painter
 * James Bard (1815–1897), American watercraft painter
 * Magdalene Bärens (1737–1808), Danish artist
 * George Barker (1882–1965), American portrait and landscape artist
 * Lucette Barker (1816–1905), English painter
 * Thomas Barker (1769–1847), Welsh/English painter
 * John Noble Barlow (1861–1917), English painter
 * Gwen Barnard (1912–1988), English painter and print-maker
 * Ernie Barnes (1938–2009), American artist and author
 * Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893), English/American painter
 * Henri Alphonse Barnoin (1882–1940), French painter
 * Federico Barocci (1535–1612) Italian painter and print-maker
 * Aimé Barraud (1902–1954), Swiss painter
 * François Barraud (1899–1934), Swiss painter
 * George Barret, Sr. (c. 1730 – 1784), Irish landscape painter
 * George Barret, Jr. (1767–1842), English landscape painter (son of George Barret, Sr.)
 * Syd Barrett (1946–2006), English painter and musician
 * Mardi Barrie (1930–2004), Scottish painter and art teacher
 * James Barry (1741–1806), Irish painter
 * Hans von Bartels (1856–1913), German painter
 * Richmond Barthé (1901 – c. 1990), American sculptor
 * Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944), English watercolor painter
 * Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940), English/Hawaiian painter and print-maker
 * Jennifer Bartlett (born 1941), American artist
 * Fra Bartolomeo (1474–1517), Italian religious painter
 * Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815) Italian/English engraver
 * Rose Maynard Barton (1856–1929), Irish/English painter
 * Andor Basch (1885–1944), Hungarian painter
 * Gyula Basch (1859–1928), Hungarian painter
 * Evaristo Baschenis (1617–1677), Italian still-life painter
 * Georg Baselitz (born 1938), German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
 * Marie Bashkirtseff (1860–1884), Russian/French painter, sculptor and diarist
 * Franz Karl Basler-Kopp (1879–1937), German/Swiss painter
 * Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), American graffiti artist, painter and musician
 * Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 1592), Italian religious and genre painter
 * Bartholomeus van Bassen (1590–1652), Dutch painter and architect
 * James Bateman (1893–1959), English pastoral painter and engraver
 * Robert Bateman (1842–1922), English painter and horticulturalist
 * Robert Bateman (born 1930), Canadian painter and naturalist
 * Maxwell Bates (1906–1980), Canadian expressionist painter and architect
 * Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787), Italian painter
 * John Nelson Battenberg (1931–2012), American sculptor
 * Gyula Batthyány (1887–1959), Hungarian painter and graphic artist
 * André Bauchant (1873–1958), French naïve painter
 * Auguste Baud-Bovy (1848–1949), Swiss rural painter
 * Lubin Baugin (c. 1611 – 1663), French still-life painter
 * Edgar Schofield Baum (1916–2006), American painter, sculptor and poet
 * Walter Emerson Baum (1884–1956), American artist and educator
 * Fritz Baumann (1886–1942), Swiss painter
 * Tilo Baumgärtel (born 1972), German painter
 * Armin Baumgarten (born 1967), German painter and sculptor
 * Walter Bayes (1869–1956), English painter and illustrator
 * Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906), English painter, author and poet
 * James Baynes (1766–1837), English water-color painter and draftsman
 * Thomas Mann Baynes (1794–1854), English artist and lithographer
 * Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), French painter
 * Reynolds Beal (1867–1951), American painter and etcher
 * Sophia Beale (1837–1920), English painter and writer on art
 * Romare Bearden (1914–1988), American artist and songwriter
 * Penelope Beaton (1886–1963), Scottish water-colorist
 * Robert Beauchamp (1923–1995), American painter and arts educator
 * André Beauneveu (1335–1400), Netherlandish sculptor and painter
 * Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), American portrait painter
 * Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486–1551), Italian painter
 * Robert Bechtle (1932–2020), American painter
 * Jasmine Becket-Griffith, American artist on acrylic, canvas and wood
 * Clarice Beckett (1887–1935), Australian artist
 * Max Beckmann (1884–1950), German painter, print-maker and sculptor
 * Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959), English portrait painter
 * Ignat Bednarik (1882–1963), Romanian painter and illustrator
 * Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969) Italian/American sculptor, painter and performance artist
 * Tuvia Beeri (1929–2022) Czech/Israeli painter
 * Cornelis Pietersz Bega (1620–1664), Dutch painter and engraver
 * Abraham Begeyn (1637–1697), Dutch painter
 * Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (born 1450), Persian painter
 * Abraham van Beijeren (1620–1690), Dutch painter
 * Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005), Polish painter, photographer and sculptor
 * Andrew Bell (1726–1809), Scottish engraver and printer
 * George Bell (1878–1966), Australian painter, teacher and violinist
 * Gladys Kathleen Bell (1882–1965), English artist and miniature painter
 * John Zephaniah Bell (1794–1883), Scottish/English artist
 * Leland Bell (1922–1991), American painter
 * Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), English painter and interior designer
 * John Bellany (1942–2013), Scottish painter
 * Alexis Simon Belle (1674–1734), French portrait painter
 * Henri Bellechose (died before 1445), Netherlandish painter
 * Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516), Italian painter
 * Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – 1507), Italian painter
 * Jacopo Bellini (c. 1400 – 1470), Italian painter
 * Bernardo Bellotto (1721–1780), Italian landscape painter
 * George Bellows (1882–1925), American realist painter
 * Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962), Austrian/American children's illustrator and writer
 * Gyula Benczúr (1844–1920), Hungarian painter and instructor
 * Marilyn Bendell (1921–2003), American painter
 * Wilhelm Bendz (1804–1832), Danish painter
 * Manfredi Beninati (born 1970), Italian artist and sculptor
 * Jason Benjamin (born 1971), Australian painter
 * Martin Benka (1888–1977), Hungarian/Slovak painter
 * Frank Weston Benson (1862–1951), American painter and etcher
 * Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), American painter and muralist
 * Alexandre Benois (1870–1960), Russian/Soviet/French artist and art critic
 * Lajos Berán (1882–1943), Hungarian sculptor and medalist
 * Jean Béraud (1849–1935), French painter
 * Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620–1683), Dutch painter
 * Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1638–1698), Dutch painter
 * Róbert Berény (1887–1953), Hungarian painter
 * Marcelle Bergerol (1900–1989), French painter
 * Christoffel van den Berghe (1590–1645), Flemish/Dutch painter
 * Carlos Berlanga (1959–2002), Spanish painter, musician and composer
 * Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas (1849–1921), Swiss/German painter, architect and designer
 * Helen Berman (born 1936) Dutch/Israeli painter and textile designer
 * Émile Bernard (1868–1941), French painter and writer
 * Aurél Bernáth (1895–1982), Hungarian painter
 * John E. Berninger (1896–1981), American painter
 * Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), Italian sculptor and architect
 * Morris Louis Bernstein (1912–1962), American painter
 * William Berra (born 1952), American painter
 * Albert Bertelsen (1921–2019), Danish painter and graphic artist
 * Johann Berthelsen (1883–1972), American painter
 * Robert Bery (born 1953), American painter, photographer and sculptor
 * Elsa Beskow (1874–1953), Swedish children's illustrator and writer
 * Paul-Albert Besnard (1849–1934), French painter and print-maker
 * Eleanor Best (1875–1958), English painter
 * László Beszédes (1874–1922), Hungarian sculptor
 * Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), German painter and performance artist
 * Robert Bevan (1865–1925), English painter, draftsman and lithographer
 * Henryka Beyer (1782–1855), German/Polish painter
 * Riad Beyrouti (born 1944), Syrian/French painter
 * Lujo Bezeredi (1898–1979), Hungarian/Croatian sculptor and painter
 * Roman Bezpalkiv (1938–2009), Soviet/Ukrainian painter
 * Bholekar Srihari (born 1941), Indian painter, sculptor and print-maker
 * Bian Jingzhao (邊景昭, fl. 1426–1435), Chinese painter
 * Bian Shoumin (边寿民, 1684–1752), Chinese painter
 * Alessandro Galli Bibiena (1687–1769), Italian architect and painter
 * Antonio Galli Bibiena (1700–1774), Italian architect and painter
 * Carlo Galli Bibiena (1728–1787), Italian designer and painter
 * Maria Oriana Galli Bibiena (1656–1749), Italian painter
 * Heinrich Bichler (1466–1497), Swiss painter
 * George Biddle (1885–1973), American painter, muralist and lithographer
 * Hunter Biden (born 1970), American lawyer, lobbyist and painter
 * Candido Bido (1936–2011), Dominican Republic painter
 * Johann Jakob Biedermann (1763–1830), Swiss painter and etcher
 * André Charles Biéler (1896–1989), Swiss/Canadian painter and teacher
 * Ernest Biéler (1863–1948), Swiss painter, draftsman and print-maker
 * Adolf Bierbrauer (1915–2012), German conceptual artist, painter and sculptor
 * Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), American painter
 * Helen Biggar (1909–1953), Scottish sculptor and film-maker
 * Sándor Bihari (1855–1906), Hungarian painter
 * Jan van Bijlert (1597–1671), Dutch painter
 * Ivan Bilibin (1876–1942), Russian/Soviet illustrator and stage designer
 * Edmond Bille (1878–1959), Swiss painter, stained-glass artist and writer
 * Ejler Bille (1910–2004), Danish artist
 * Charles Billich (born 1934), Yugoslav/Croatian artist
 * George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), American artist and politician
 * Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English painter, copyist and poet
 * Helen Binyon (1904–1979), English painter, illustrator and puppeteer
 * S J "Lamorna" Birch (1869–1955), English painter
 * Paul Bird (1923–1993), English artist and teacher
 * Oswald Birley (1880–1952), English painter and portraitist
 * Peter Birmann (1758–1844), Swiss painter
 * Samuel Birmann (1793–1847), Swiss painter
 * Thierry Bisch (born 1953), French artist
 * Elmer Bischoff (1916–1991), American visual artist
 * Tim Biskup (born 1967), American artist
 * Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762–1844) Italian fresco and religious painter
 * Vilhelm Bissen (1836–1913), Danish sculptor
 * Douglas Robertson Bisset (1908–2000), Scottish sculptor
 * Cornelis Bisschop (1630–1674), Dutch painter
 * Emil Bisttram (1895–1976), American artist
 * Henri Biva (1848–1929), French painter
 * Mary Black (c. 1737 – 1814), English portrait painter
 * Sam Black (1913–1997), Scottish artist
 * Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909), Scottish painter and illustrator
 * Ann Thetis Blacker (1927–2006), English painter and singer
 * Vivien Blackett (born 1955), English artist
 * Charles Blackman (1928–2018), Australian painter
 * Basil Blackshaw (1932–2016), Northern Irish artist
 * Doris Blair (born 1915), Northern Irish artist
 * John Blair (painter) (1849–1934), Scottish painter
 * William Blake (1757–1827), painter, poet and print-maker
 * Zelma Blakely (1921–1978), English painter and print-maker
 * Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), American painter
 * Edmund Blampied (1886–1966), Jersey/English artist and etcher
 * Arnold Blanch (1896–1968), American painter, etcher and lithographer
 * Jacques Blanchard (1600–1638), French painter
 * Ross Bleckner (born 1949), American painter
 * Johann Heinrich Bleuler (1758–1823), Swiss painter and porcelain designer
 * Johann Ludwig Bleuler (1792–1850), Swiss landscape painter and publisher
 * Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834–1890), Danish painter
 * Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719), German painter
 * Benjamin Block (1631–1690), German painter
 * Josef Block (1863–1943), German painter
 * Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651), Dutch painter, print-maker and engraver
 * Hendrick Bloemaert (1601–1672), Dutch painter
 * Flavia Blois (1914–1980), English landscape painter
 * Tina Blondell (born 1953), Austrian/American painter
 * Hyman Bloom (1913–2009), Latvian/American painter
 * Pieter de Bloot (1601–1658), Dutch painter
 * Godfrey Blow (born 1948), Australian Stuckist artist
 * Peter Blume (1906–1992), American painter and sculptor
 * Ditlev Blunck (1798–1854), Danish/German painter
 * Robert Henderson Blyth (1919–1970), Scottish painter
 * David Gilmour Blythe (1815–1865), American painter and poet
 * Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916), Italian painter and sculptor
 * Anna Boch (1848–1936), Belgian painter
 * François Bocion (1828–1890), Swiss painter, designer and art professor
 * Thomas Bock (1793–1855), English/Australian artist and photographer
 * Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Swiss symbolist painter
 * Margaret Boden (1912–2001), Scottish painter and illustrator
 * Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), Swiss/French print-maker, etcher and lithographer
 * Paul Bodmer (1886–1983), Swiss painter
 * Zsolt Bodoni (born 1975), Romanian (Hungarian) painter
 * Edward Marshall Boehm (1913–1969), American sculptor and porcelain maker
 * George Bogart (1933–2005), American painter
 * Krzysztof Boguszewski (1906–1988), Polish painter
 * Pál Böhm (1839–1905), Hungarian/German painter
 * Aaron Bohrod (1907–1992), American painter
 * Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), French painter and draftsman
 * Maurice Boitel (born 1919), French painter
 * Ferdinand Bol (1616–1680), Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman
 * Hans Bol (1534–1593), Flemish painter, miniaturist and draftsman
 * Kees Bol (1916–2009), Dutch painter and art educator
 * Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931), Italian/French painter
 * Boetius Adamsz Bolswert (1585–1633), German Frisian/Dutch copperplate engraver
 * Schelte a Bolswert (1586–1659), Dutch engraver
 * Irvin Bomb (born 1967), American painter, illustrator and film-maker
 * David Bomberg (1890–1957), English painter
 * Camille Bombois (1883–1970), French naïve painter
 * Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), Scottish etcher and water-colorist
 * Phyllis Bone (1894–1972), Scottish sculptor
 * Stephen Bone (1904–1958), English painter and broadcaster
 * Isidore Bonheur (1827–1901), French sculptor
 * Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), French painter and sculptor
 * Hugo Sánchez Bonilla (born 1940), Costa Rican artist
 * Claude Bonin-Pissarro (1921–2021), French painter and graphic designer
 * Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828), English/French landscape painter
 * William Bonnar (1800–1863), Scottish painter and draftsman
 * Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), French painter, illustrator and print-maker
 * Francesco Bonsignori (1460–1519), Italian painter and draftsman
 * Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), Dutch genre painter
 * Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960), Canadian abstract painter
 * Adolf Born (1930–2016) Czechoslovak/Czech painter, illustrator and caricaturist
 * Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757–1825), Russian portrait painter
 * József Borsos (1821–1883), Hungarian portrait painter and photographer
 * Miklós Borsos (1906–1990), Hungarian sculptor
 * Sándor Bortnyik (1893–1976), Hungarian painter and graphic designer
 * Samu Börtsök (1881–1931), Hungarian painter
 * Kameda Bōsai (亀田鵬斎, 1752–1826), Japanese nanga painter
 * Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 – 1516), Dutch/Netherlandish painter
 * Abraham Bosschaert (1612–1643), Dutch painter
 * Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573–1621), Dutch still-life painter
 * Ambrosius Bosschaert II (1609–1645), Dutch flower painter
 * Johannes Bosschaert (1610–1650), Dutch still-life painter
 * Ángel Botello (1913–1986), Spanish/Puerto Rican painter, sculptor and graphic artist
 * Fernando Botero (1932–2023), Colombian artist and sculptor
 * Andries Both (1612–1641), Dutch genre painter
 * Jan Dirksz Both (1610–1652), Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher
 * Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), Italian painter
 * François Boucher (1703–1770), French painter, draftsman and etcher
 * Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), French landscape painter
 * William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), French academic painter
 * Jack Boul (born 1917), American painter
 * Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888), French figure painter
 * Doris Boulton-Maude (1892–1961), English engraver, etcher and print-maker
 * Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951), American figurative painter
 * Francis Bourgeois (1753–1811), English landscape and history painter
 * John Bourne (born 1943), English/Welsh artist and Stuckist painter
 * Esaias Boursse (1631–1672), Dutch genre painter
 * Dieric Bouts (1420–1475), Netherlandish painter
 * Camille Bouvagne (1864–1936), French painter
 * Carol Bove (born 1971), American artist
 * Erwin Bowien (1899–1972), German painter
 * Eden Box (1919–1988), English painter
 * Zlatyu Boyadzhiev (1903–1976), Bulgarian painter
 * Arthur Boyd (1920–1999), Australian painter
 * Arthur Merric Boyd (1862–1940), Australian painter
 * David Boyd (1924–2011), Australian artist
 * Mary Syme Boyd (1910–1997), Scottish painter and sculptor
 * Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923), Australian artist
 * Jimmy Boyle (born 1944), Scottish sculptor and novelist
 * Mark Boyle (1934–2005), Scottish painter and sculptor
 * Olga Boznańska (1865–1940), Polish painter
 * Dorothea Braby (1909–1987), English artist and illustrator
 * John Brack (1920–1999), Australian painter
 * Robert Brackman (1898–1980), American artist and teacher
 * Marie Bracquemond (1841–1916), French impressionist painter
 * Dorothy Bradford (1918–2008), English painter and print-maker
 * Dorothy Elizabeth Bradford (1897–1986), English painter
 * Leonaert Bramer (1596–1674), Dutch religious and history painter
 * Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694–1756), German landscape painter
 * Johann Christian Brand (1722–1795), Austrian painter
 * Peter Brandes (born 1944), Danish painter, sculptor and ceramicist
 * Petr Brandl (1668–1739), Bohemian painter
 * Warren Eugene Brandon (1916–1977), American painter and photographer
 * Eugène Brands (1913–2002), Dutch painter
 * Józef Brandt (1841–1915), Polish painter
 * Muriel Brandt (1909–1981), Irish painter
 * Ruth Brandt (1936–1989), Irish artist and teacher
 * Georges Braque (1882–1963), French painter, print-maker and sculptor
 * Arnold Franz Brasz (1888–1966), American painter, sculptor and print-maker
 * Maurice Braun (1877–1941), American landscape painter
 * Victor Brauner (1903–1966), Romanian sculptor and surrealist painter
 * Robert J. Brawley (1936–2006), American painter
 * Jan de Bray (1627–1697), Dutch painter
 * Dirck de Bray (c. 1635 – 1694), Dutch painter
 * Phyllis Bray (1911–1991), English mural painter
 * Salomon de Bray (1597–1664), Dutch painter and architect
 * Carl Frederik von Breda (1759–1818), Swedish painter
 * Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598–1657), Dutch painter of Italian landscapes
 * George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923), Dutch painter and photographer
 * Quirijn van Brekelenkam (1622–1670), Dutch genre painter
 * Mark A. Brennan (born 1968), Canadian landscape painter
 * Art Brenner (1924–2013), American abstract sculptor and painter
 * Louise Catherine Breslau (1856–1927), Swiss/French painter and print-maker
 * Jules Breton (1827–1906), French naturalist painter
 * David Brewster (born 1960), American painter
 * James E. Brewton (1930–1967), American painter and print-maker
 * Breyten Breytenbach (born 1939), South African writer and painter
 * Gabor Breznay (born 1956), Hungarian/French painter
 * József Breznay (1916–2012), Hungarian painter
 * Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837–1908), American painter
 * Louis Briel (1945–2021), American painter
 * Ernest Briggs (1923–1984), American painter
 * Henry Bright (1810–1873), English painter
 * Pierre Brissaud (1885–1964), French illustrator, painter and engraver
 * Károly Brocky (1808–1855), Hungarian/English painter
 * Louis le Brocquy (1916–2012), Irish painter
 * Heinrich Brocksieper (1898–1968), German photographer, painter and film-maker
 * William Brodie (1815–1881), Scottish sculptor
 * Antoni Brodowski (1784–1832), Polish painter
 * Sándor Brodszky (1819–1901), Hungarian painter
 * Melchior Broederlam (1350 – post-1409), Netherlandish painter
 * Arnold Bronckhorst (fl. 1565–1583), Dutch painter, first King's Painter of Scotland
 * Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), Italian mannerist painter
 * Alexander Brook (1898–1980), American artist and art critic
 * Peter Brook (1927–2009), English painter
 * Bertram Brooker (1888–1955), Canadian painter
 * Allan Brooks (1869–1946), Canadian bird artist and ornithologist
 * Frank Leonard Brooks (born 1911), Canadian artist
 * James Brooks (1906–1992), American muralist and painter
 * Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), American portrait painter
 * Robert Brough (1872–1905), Scottish painter
 * Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish painter
 * Cecily Brown (born 1969), English/American painter
 * Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893), English painter
 * John Brown (c. 1752 – 1787), Scottish artist and draftsman
 * John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), Scottish landscape painter
 * Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894), English artist, author and model
 * Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971), American painter
 * Joan Brown (1938–1990), American figurative painter
 * Judith Brown (1931–1992), American sculptor and dancer
 * Nyuju Stumpy Brown (1924–2011), Australian painter and cultural figure
 * Kathleen Browne (1905–2007), New Zealand painter
 * Mia Brownell (born 1971), American painter
 * Václav Brožík (1851–1901), Czech/French painter
 * Patrick Henry Bruce (1881–1936), American painter
 * Lajos Bruck (1846–1910), Hungarian painter
 * Lodewijk Bruckman (1903–1995), Dutch magic realist painter
 * Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625), Flemish painter and draftsman
 * Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678), Flemish painter
 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – 1569), Dutch painter and print-maker
 * Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1638), Flemish painter
 * Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958), English painter
 * Arnold Brügger (1888–1975), Swiss painter
 * Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), French painter
 * Elizabeth York Brunton (1880 – c. 1960), Scottish painter and woodcut artist
 * Barthel Bruyn the Elder (1493–1555), Germain painter
 * Barthel Bruyn the Younger (c. 1530 – 1607/1610), German painter
 * Robert Bryden (1865–1939), Scottish painter, engraver and sculptor
 * Karl Bryullov (1799–1852), Russian painter
 * Tadeusz Brzozowski (1818–1887), Polish painter
 * Ernest Buckmaster (1897–1968), Australian artist
 * Ota Bubeníček (1871–1962), Czech landscape painter
 * Emanuel Büchel (1705–1775), Swiss painter
 * Frank Buchser (1828–1890), Swiss painter
 * David Budd (1927–1991), American painter
 * Karl Buesgen (1917–1981), American landscape painter
 * Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), French expressionist painter
 * Vlaho Bukovac (1855–1922), Austro-Hungarian/Yugoslav/Croatian painter
 * Norma Bull (1906–1980), Australian painter and print-maker
 * Johann Balthasar Bullinger (1713–1793), Swiss landscape painter
 * Fritz Bultman (1919–1985), American painter, sculptor and collagist
 * John Elwood Bundy (1853–1933), American painter
 * Dennis Miller Bunker (1861–1890), American painter
 * Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), American painter, print-maker and muralist
 * Rupert Bunny (1864–1947), Australian painter
 * Mykola Burachek (1871–1942), Russian/Soviet painter and pedagogue
 * Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858–1949), American portrait painter
 * Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), American painter and visionary artist
 * Jacob Burck (1907–1982), Polish/American painter, sculptor and cartoonist
 * Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531), German painter and print-maker
 * Francisco de Burgos Mantilla (1612–1672), Spanish painter
 * Max Buri (1868–1915), Swiss painter
 * Zdeněk Burian (1905–1981), Moravian/Czechoslovak painter
 * Rodney Joseph Burn (1899–1984), English painter
 * Eugène Burnand (1850–1921), Swiss painter and illustrator
 * Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), Scottish sculptor
 * Dorothy Burroughes (1883–1963), English painter, illustrator and lino-cut artist
 * Alberto Burri (1915–1995) Italian painter, sculptor and physician
 * David Burton-Richardson (born 1961), Welsh artist and poet
 * Sergio Burzi (1901–1954), Italian painter and illustrator
 * Mildred Anne Butler (1858–1941), Irish painter
 * Theodore Earl Butler (1861–1936), American painter
 * Ambreen Butt (born 1969), Pakistani/American painter, draftsman and collagist
 * Howard Butterworth (living), Scottish painter
 * R. Butter, American Landscape Artist, (1800s) need more info**
 * John Button (1930–1982), American artist
 * Louis Buvelot (1814–1888), Swiss/Australian painter
 * Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591–1624), Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher
 * Byeon Sang-byeok (변상벽, fl. mid-18th c.), Korean painter
 * Mary Byfield (1795–1871), English book illustrator and wood engraver
 * John Byrne (1786–1847), English painter and engraver
 * John Byrne (born 1940), Scottish painter and playwright
 * Johann Rudolf Byss (1660–1738), Swiss painter