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
• Elizabeth Lucar (1510-1537)- English Calligrapher
• Levina Teerlinc (1510s- 1576) - Flemish-born artist, painter to Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.
• 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 (1731–1809) – 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 (1741–1807) – 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 (1757–1827) – English artist and caricaturist
• William Blake (1757–1827) – English poet, painter, and printmaker
• Franz Bauer (1758–1840) – Austrian-born painter of botany. Long time residence at Kew Gardens as Botanic Painter to George III
• 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 Opie (1761–1807) – English painter, known as the "Cornish Wonder"
• 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
• Martin Archer Shee (1769–1850) – Irish painter and President of the Royal Academy
• Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) – English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy
• 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
• Samuel Lane (1780–1859) – English portrait 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
• Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787-1855) - English watercolor painter of landscapes
• 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
• Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867) – English painter of romantic seascapes
• David Roberts (1796–1864) – Scottish painter known particularly for his cityscapes
• Edward Calvert (1799–1883) – English printmaker and painter
• James Holland (1799–1870) – landscape painter and illustrator
• Charles Landseer (1799–1879) – English history painter, brother of Edwin Landseer
• 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 watercolourist
• 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
• Alfred Elmore (1815–1881) – Irish-born painter of genre scenes. Member of The Clique
• 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
• Augustus Leopold Egg (1816–1863) – English painter of genre and historical scenes. Member of The Clique
• Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879) – English painters of historical scenes. Member of The Clique
• Edward Armitage (1817–1896) – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects
• Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer
• Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes. Member of The Clique
• Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
• Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817–1880) – Russian-born English painter of history and genre scenes. Member of The Clique
• John Phillip (1817–1867) – Scottish painter known for his depictions of Spain. Member of The Clique
• 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
• 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. Member of The Clique
• James Sant (1820–1916) – English court and society painter
• 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 watercolourist 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
• Peter Graham (1836–1921) – Scottish painter of Highland landscapes
• 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) – Dutch-born British classical-subject painter
• James Tissot (1836–1902) – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects
• John Sowden (1838–1926) – English watercolourist
• 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
• Alyce Thornycroft (1844 – 1906) – English sculptor and painter
• 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 watercolourist
• 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
• Norah Fulcher (1867–1945) – English watercolour portrait artist
• Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory
• Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, 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
• Edith Maryon (1872-1924) - English sculptor
• 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 the 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
• Edmund Blampied (1886–1966) – British Channel Islander artist known especially for etchings and drypoints
• 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
• Daisy Smith (1891–1983) – English painter and watercolourist
• 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)
• Ronald Lampitt (1906–1988)
• 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)
• Adrian Heath (1920-1992)
• 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 (1924–2005)
• Miles Richmond (1922–2008)
• Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
• William McLaren (1923–1987)
• Anthony Caro (1924–2013)
• Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)
• 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)
• Eric Rimmington (1926–2024)
• 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)
• John Riley (1928–2010)
• John Scanes (1928–2004)
• Joe Tilson (born 1928)
• 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)
• Erich von Götha de la Rosière (born 1930)
• 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
• Charles Lutyens (1933–2021) – painter, sculptor, and mosaicist
• Norman Perryman (born 1933)
• Vincent Haddelsey (1934–2010)
• John Hoyland (1934–2011)
• Colin Jones (born 1934) – systems artist
• 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 (1937–2026)
• 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)
• Sue Gollifer (born 1944) – printmaker and digital artist
• Bruce McLean (born 1944)
• David Paskett (born 1944)
• Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
• Maggi Hambling (born 1945)
• Ed Herring (1945–2003)
• Pete Hoida (1944-2023)
• Geoffrey Humphries (born 1945)
• David Imms (born 1945)
• Richard Long (born 1945)
• Val Archer (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 1950–1999

• Sam Ainsley (born 1950)
• Pauline Burbidge (born 1950), British textile artist, designer, and quiltmaker
• 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 in the 1950s tradition
• 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, and journalist
• 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)
• Steve Pyke (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)
• Jo Budd (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)
• Rupert Shrive (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)
• Roopa Basu (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
• Vector Meldrew (born 1984)
• 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)
• Emily Powell (born 1990)
• Sophie Green (born 1992)
• Bianca Raffaella (born 1992)
• Vanessa Lubach (fl 1990) – printmaker

Born 2000 and later

• Kieron Williamson (born 2002) – English painter

See also

• List of Manx artists
• List of artists from Northern Ireland
• List of Scottish artists
• List of Welsh artists

References