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).

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Born before 1700

Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Christina of Denmark, c. 1538. Oil and tempera on oak, National Gallery, London

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

Born 1700–1799

J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, National Gallery

Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, 1770

William Blake, Newton (1795)

• Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865) – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects
• Louis-François Roubiliac (1702/5–1762) – French sculptor whose works reside in Westminster Abbey
• Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter
• James Seymour (c.1702–1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art
• William Hoare (c.1707–1792) – English painter especially of pastels
• Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
• Arthur Devis (c.1712–1787) – English portrait painter, especially of conversation pieces and other small portraits
• Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) – Scottish portrait painter
• Richard Wilson (1713–1782) – Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy
• Alexander Cozens (c.1717–1786) – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting
• Charles Brooking (1723–1759) – English painter
• Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – English painter specialising in portraits
• George Stubbs (1724–1806) – British painter especially of horses
• James Lambert (1725–1788) – English landscape painter
• Francis Cotes (1726–1770) – English painter
• Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) – English portrait and landscape painter
• Paul Sandby (1730–1809) – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
• Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) – English animal painter
• Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England
• George Romney (1734–1802) – English portrait painter
• Joseph Wright (1734–1797) – English landscape and portrait painter
• Alexander Runciman (1736–1785) – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects
• Mary Black (c.1737–1814) – English portrait painter
• Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823) – sculptor from London
• Francis Towne (1739/40–1816) – English watercolour painter
• Angelica Kauffman (1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter
• Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) – English artist of French origin
• William Marlow (1740–1813) – English landscape and marine artist
• John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings
• Matthew William Peters (1742–1814) English portrait painter
• James Barry (1741–1806) – Irish painter
• Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin
• Richard Cosway (1742–1821) – English portrait painter, miniaturist
• Ozias Humphry (1742–1810) – English painter of portrait miniatures
• John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes
• Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist
• Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver
• Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
• Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter
• Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) – English artist and caricaturist
• William Blake (1757–1827) – English poet, painter, and printmaker
• Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840) – Scottish portrait and landscape painter
• Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) – English portrait painter
• Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – English painter, mostly of portraits
• Charles Fairfield (1761?–1805) – English painter, mostly known as a copyist
• John Charles Felix Rossi (1762–1839) – sculptor
• Arthur William Devis (1762–1822) – English painter of history paintings and portraits
• George Morland (1763–1804) – English painter of animals and rustic scenes
• Joshua Cristall (1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter
• John Crome (1768–1821) – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters
• Martin Archer Shee (1769–1850) – Irish painter and President of the Royal Academy
• Thomas Lawrence (1769–1820) – 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
• 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
• Edward Calvert (1799–1883) – English printmaker and painter
• James Holland (1799–1870) – landscape painter and illustrator
• David Ogborne (died 1800/1) – English painter of events and curiosities in Essex
• Eglington Margaret Pearson (died 1823) – stained glass painter
• Cosmo Armstrong (died 1847) – English line-engraver

Born 1800–1899

Augustus Leopold Egg, The Travelling Companions, 1862

John Ruskin by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, 1853–1854, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

• 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
• Lucette Barker (1816–1905) – English painter
• William James Blacklock (1816–1858) – English landscape artist, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders
• Edward Armitage (1817–1896) – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects
• Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes
• Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
• Alfred Tippinge (1817–1898) – British Grenadier Guard who sent home paintings of the Crimean War
• George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) – English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement
• Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer
• William Hemsley (1819–1906) – English genre painter; vice president of the Society of British Artists
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909) – English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives
• George Gammon Adams (1821–1898)- English sculptor and medallist
• Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) – English painter of moral and historical subjects
• Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893) – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America
• Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910) – Anglo-Irish artist
• Frederick Goodall (snr) (1822–1904) – English artist specialising in oriental scenes
• Frederick William Keyl (1823–1871) – German-born British painter of animals
• Charles Davidson (1824–1902) – English watercolour painter
• Henry Alexander Bowler (1824–1903) – English painter and academic
• Abraham Solomon (1824–1862) – English painter
• Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet
• Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – English educationalist and landscape artist
• William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) – British painter, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828–1907) – English 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
• Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875) – British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator
• John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) – English painter especially of landscapes
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – British classical-subject painter
• James Tissot (1836–1902) – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Joseph Hermon Cawthra (1886–1971) – English sculptor
• Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (1886–1911) – English painter
• Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) – English artist and occultist
• L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) – English artist
• Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950) – English artist and theatre designer
• Arthur James F. Bond (1888–1958) – English painter of maritime subjects
• Sydney Carline (1888–1929) – English artist
• David Dougal Williams (June 1888–28 September 1944) – British artist and art teacher
• Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter
• Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970) – English painter
• Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural history
• Paul Nash (1889–1946) – English war artist
• Christopher Nevinson (1889–1946) – English painter and vorticist
• Ruth Simpson (1889–1964) – English portrait painter
• Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) – English artist
• David Bomberg (1890–1957) – English painter and one of the Whitechapel Boys
• Charles Cundall (1890–1971) – English painter
• Joseph Gray (1890–1963) – English painter
• Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) – Welsh artist and writer
• Francis Helps (1890–1972) – English artist
• Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890–1978) – English artist
• Iain Macnab (1890–1967) – Scottish painter
• Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) – English painter
• Leon Underwood (1890–1975) – British sculptor, painter, and engraver
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915) – French sculptor and vorticist
• Mark Gertler (1891–1939) – British portrait and landscape painter
• Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) – English painter
• Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891–1966) – English portrait painter
• Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975) – German-born British sculptor
• Colin Gill (1892–1940) – English painter
• Gilbert Spencer (1892–1978) – British painter
• Harold Sandys Williamson (1892–1978) – British painter
• John Armstrong (1893–1973) – British artist
• John Nash (1893–1977) – English painter, illustrator, and engraver
• Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) – English painter
• Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) – English painter and etcher
• Leonard Squirrell (1893–1979) – English watercolourist and etcher
• Henry Matthew Talintyre (1893–1962) – British artist
• Flora Twort (1893–1985) – English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels
• Henry Carr (1894–1970) – British painter
• Meredith Frampton (1894–1984) – British artist
• Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) – Cornish painter
• Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) – English abstract painter
• Dora Clarke (1895–1989) – English sculptor
• David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet
• William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist
• Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) – British artist
• Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) – British artist
• Harry Barr (1896–1987) – English painter
• John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) – New Zealand-born illustrator
• Harold Williamson (1898–1972) – British painter, designer, etcher and teacher
• Henry Moore (1898–1986) – English artist and sculptor
• Rodney Joseph Burn (1899–1984) – English artist
• Winifred Knights (1899–1947) – English painter

Born 1900–1949

• Joseph Mellor Hanson (1900–1963)
• Ursula Edgcumbe (1900–1985)
• Barbara Greg (1900–1983)
• George Lambourn (1900–1977)
• Roland Penrose (1900–1984)
• Harold Tamblyn-Watts (1900–1999)
• Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983)
• Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
• Ancell Stronach (1901–1981) – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art
• Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
• Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
• Jean Clark (1902–1999)
• Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
• Aileen Eagleton (1902–1984)
• Simon Elwes (1902–1975)
• Robin Guthrie (1902–1971)
• Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
• Ray Howard-Jones (1903–1996)
• Charles Mahoney (1903–1968)
• John Piper (1903–1992)
• Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
• Richard Eurich (1903–1992)
• Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
• Albert Houthuesen (1903–1979)
• Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
• Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
• Peggy Angus (1904–1993)
• Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
• Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
• Stephen Bone (1904–1958)
• Evan Charlton (1904–1984)
• Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
• Reg Bunn (1905–1971)
• Edward Burra (1905–1976)
• Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981)
• Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
• Morris Kestelman (1905–1998)
• Kenneth Martin (1905–1984)
• Robert Medley (1905–1994)
• Vernon Ward (1905–1985)
• Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
• Kathleen Allen (1906–1983)
• Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960)
• Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
• Joan Hassall (1906–1988)
• Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
• Kenneth Steel (1906–1970)
• Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998)
• Phyllis Ginger (1907–2005)
• James McIntosh Patrick (1907–1998) – Scottish landscape painter
• Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye (1907–2005)
• Claude Rogers (1907–1979)
• William Coldstream (1908–1987)
• Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
• Norman Hepple (1908–1994)
• Victor Pasmore (1908–1998)
• Stella Schmolle (1908–1975)
• Carel Weight (1908–1997)
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992) – born in Ireland
• Dorothea Braby (1909–1987)
• Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
• Leonard Daniels (1909–1998)
• Paul Lucien Dessau (1909–1999)
• Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976)
• Gwynneth Holt (1909–1995) – ivory sculptor
• Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)
• Eric Taylor (1909–1999)
• Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
• Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
• Pamela Drew (1910–1989)
• Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)
• Rodrigo Moynihan (1910–1990)
• Rosemary Allan (1911–2008)
• Phyllis Bray (1911–1991)
• John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
• Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
• Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
• Nicolette Macnamara (1911–1987)
• Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
• Andrew Freeth (1912–1986)
• Erlund Hudson (1912–2011)
• Georgina Hunt (1912–2012)
• Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)
• Reg Butler (1913–1981)
• Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
• Joan Hutt (1913–1985)
• Leonard Rosoman (1913–2012)
• Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)
• Harold Hitchcock (1914–2009)
• Frances Macdonald (1914–2002)
• Charles Mozley (1914–1991)
• Frank Roper (1914–2000) – sculptor
• Doris Blair (born 1915)
• Mary Fedden (1915–2012)
• Dennis Flanders (1915–1994)
• Wendy F. Walsh (1915–2014) – illustrator and botanical artist
• Norman Whitehead (1915–1983)
• Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
• John Bridgeman (1916–2004)
• Margaret Thomas (1916–2016) – painter
• James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)
• John Kashdan (1917–2001)
• Anthony Robert Klitz (1917–2000)
• John Minton (1917–1957)
• Mona Moore (1917–2000)
• Estella Campavias (1918–1990)
• John Kyffin Williams (1918–2006)
• Peter Lanyon (1918–1964)
• Richard Vicary (1918–2006) – printmaker
• Eden Box (1918–1988)
• Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
• Norman Cornish (1919–2014)
• Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
• Cliff Holden (1919–2020)
• Peter Wright (1919–2003)
• Michael Ford (1920–2005)
• Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
• Robert Tavener (1920–2004)
• Françoise Taylor (1920–2007) – born in Belgium, British by marriage
• Derek Chittock (1922–1986)
• Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
• Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
• Eduardo Paolozzi (1922–2005)
• Miles Richmond (1922–2008)
• Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
• William McLaren (1923–1987)
• Anthony Caro (1924–2013)
• Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)
• Erich von Götha de la Rosière (born 1924)
• Keith Sutton (1924–1991)
• Beryl Cook (1926–2008)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
• Michael Edmonds (1926–2014)
• Leon Kossoff (1926–2019)
• Edna Mann (1926–1985)
• Tom McGuinness (1926–2006)
• Eric Rimmington (1926–2024)
• Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
• Peter Bain (1927–2001)
• 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)
• 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 (born 1937)
• Allen Jones (born 1937)
• Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
• Pamela Scott Wilkie (born 1937)
• Margot Perryman (born 1938)
• Carole Steyn (born 1938)
• William Tillyer (born 1938)
• Terry Atkinson (born 1939)
• Rose Frain (born 1939)
• Anthony Green (1939–2023)
• Patrick Hughes (born 1939)
• Ian Hunter (1939–2017) – Dean of Saint Martin's School of Art
• John Walker (born 1939) – painter and printmaker
• John Byrne (born 1940)
• Peter Liddle (born 1940)
• Barry Flanagan (1941–2009)
• Yvonne Hutton (1941–1991)
• Geoffrey Key (born 1941)
• Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
• Peter Olley (born 1942)
• Ruth Rix (born 1942)
• Alan Aldridge (1938–2017)
• Grange Calveley (1943–2021)
• Errol Lloyd (born 1943)
• Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
• Graham Ovenden (1943–2022)
• Valerie Wiffen (born 1943)
• Zacron (1943–2012) – multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster
• Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944)
• 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 (born 1944)
• Geoffrey Humphries (born 1945)
• David Imms (born 1945)
• Richard Long (born 1945)
• Val Archer (born 1946)
• Lewis Blake (born 1946)
• Terance James Bond (1946–2023)
• Paul Dash (born 1946)
• Rose Garrard (born 1946)
• Winston Branch (born 1947)
• Paul Brown (born 1947) – digital artist
• Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007) – sculptor
• Richard Cook (born 1947)
• Tam Joseph (born 1947)
• Vikki Slowe (born 1947) – printmaker and painter
• Linda Sutton (born 1947)
• Godfrey Blow (born 1948)
• Pete Gilbert (born 1948) – graphic designer and painter
• Richard P. Cook (born 1949)
• Richard Deacon (born 1949) – 1987 Turner Prize Winner
• Paul Wager (born 1949) – painter and sculptor

Born 1950–1999

• Sam Ainsley (born 1950)
• Alison Dunhill (born 1950)
• Antony Gormley (born 1950)
• Edward Allington (1951–2017)
• Humphrey Ocean (born 1951)
• Richard Spare (born 1951)
• Jeremy Henderson (1952–2009) – artist and painter
• Colin Nichols (born 1952)
• Tim Woolcock (born 1952) – modern British painter 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)
• Willard Wigan (born 1957)
• Simon Beck (artist) (born 1958) – snow artist
• Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958)
• Keith Coventry (born 1958)
• Lennie Lee (born 1958) – born in South Africa
• Jake Tilson (born 1958)
• Andy Dog Johnson (1959–2016)
• Claudette Johnson (born 1959)
• Hew Locke (born 1959) – born in Scotland
• Bruce Munro (born 1959)
• Keith Salmon (born 1959) – Scottish landscape painter born in England
• Suzzan Blac (born 1960)
• Eddie Chambers (born 1960)
• John Foulger (1960–2006)
• Isaac Julien (born 1960)
• Grayson Perry (born 1960)
• Nick Fudge (born 1960)
• Keith Piper (born 1960)
• Yinka Shonibare (born 1960)
• Julie Brook (born 1961)
• Sonia Boyce (born 1962)
• Jonathan S Hooper (born 1962)
• Marion Kalmus (born 1962)
• Sarah Lucas (born 1962)
• Paul Mellia (born 1962)
• Nick Miller (born 1962) – Irish painter born in England
• Janette Parris (born 1962)
• Nasser Azam (born 1963)
• Nicola Bealing (born 1963)
• Tracey Emin (born 1963)
• Robert Fogell (born 1963)
• Janette Parris (born 1963)
• Dean Stalham (born c.1963)
• Barbara Walker (born 1963)
• Gillian Wearing (born 1963) – 1997 Turner Prize winner
• Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) – 1993 Turner Prize winner
• Frances Aviva Blane (born 1964)
• Jonathan Ellery (born 1964)
• Simon Gales (born 1964)
• Hipkiss (born 1964)
• Rachel Ara (born 1965)
• Tom Cartmill (born 1965)
• Adam Chodzko (born 1965)
• Marion Coutts (born 1965)
• Guy Denning (born 1965)
• Damien Hirst (born 1965)
• Jonathan Huxley (born 1965)
• Robert Priseman (born 1965)
• 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)
• Fuller (born 1980)
• Nick Gentry (born 1980)
• Conor Harrington (born 1980)
• Edward Kluz (born 1980)
• Polly Morgan (born 1980)
• Stuart Semple (born 1980)
• Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983)
• Anna King (born 1984)
• Anthony Smith (born 1984) – bronze sculptor
• Sarah Maple (born 1985) – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner
• Emma Cousin (born 1986)
• Johan Andersson (born 1986)
• Nicola Frimpong (born 1987)
• Seb Toussaint (born 1988) – street artist and painter
• Nathan Wyburn (born 1989) – food artist
• The Connor Brothers (born 1980s)
• Sophie Green (born 1992)
• 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