# 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
* 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 (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
* 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

* 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)
* Joe Tilson (born 1928)
* John Scanes (1928–2004)
* 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