# List of British painters

The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order).

## English painters
### Born 16th century

* George Gower (c. 1540–1596)
* Nicolas Hilliard (1547–1619)
* Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627)
* Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (1593–1661)
* Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) – born in Antwerp; Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
* William Larkin (1580–1619)

### Born 17th century

* Emmanuel de Critz (1608–1665)
* William Dobson (1610–1646)
* John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
* Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661)
* Oliver de Critz (1626–1651)
* Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713)
* Edward Bower (fl. 1635–1667)
* Henry Cooke (1642–1700)
* Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
* John Riley, or Ryley (1646–1691)
* Marmaduke Cradock (1660–1716)
* Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)
* Edward Byng (c. 1676–1753)
* Peter Monamy (1681–1749)
* John Wootton (1682–1764)
* Isaac Whood (1689–1752)
* Joseph Highmore (1692–1780)
* John Vanderbank (1694–1739)
* William Hogarth (1697–1764)

## British painters
### Born 18th century

* Thomas Hudson (1701–1779)
* Mary Hoare (1744–1820)
* William Hoare (c. 1707–1792)
* Francis Hayman (1708–1776)
* Sir William Beechey (1753–1839)
* John Shackleton (1714–1767) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III
* Richard Wilson (1714–1782)
* William Keable (1714–1774)
* Charles Brooking (1723–1759)
* Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
* George Stubbs (1724–1806)
* Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
* Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807)
* Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – born in Frankfurt
* Peter Perez Burdett (c. 1734–1793)
* George Romney (1734–1802)
* Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
* Jeremiah Meyer (1735–1789) – born in Tübingen
* Richard Wright (1735–c.1775)
* Amos Green (1735–1807)
* Mary Benwell (1739–after 1800)
* John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779)
* Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – born in Zürich
* Matthew William Peters (1742–1814)
* Mary Moser (1744–1819)
* William Hodges (1744–1797)
* Henry Walton (1746–1813)
* William Tate (1747–1806)
* Richard Morton Paye (1751–1820)
* Joseph Barney (1753–1832)
* Charles Lewis (1753–1795) – still life painter
* Maria Bell (1755–1825)
* Prince Hoare the Younger (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
* Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755–1802) – of Jersey
* Thomas Stothard (1755–1834)
* Henry Bone (1755–1834)
* William Blake (1757–1827)
* Thomas Hardy (1757-1804)
* George William Sartorius (1759–1828)
* Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803)
* Sir Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
* George Augustus Wallis (1761–1847)
* George Morland (1763–1804)
* Samuel Drummond (1766–1844)
* John Crome (1768–1821)
* Thomas Barker (1769–1847)
* James Ward (1769–1859)
* William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831)
* Edward Bird (1772–1819)
* Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774–1837)
* Thomas Girtin (1775–1802)
* Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
* John Constable (1776–1837)
* John Jackson (1778–1831)
* John Varley (1778–1842)
* William John Huggins (1781–1845), marine painter
* Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1854)
* John Sell Cotman (1782–1842)
* David Cox (1783–1859)
* Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
* Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1785–1854)
* Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)
* William Mulready (1786–1863)
* William Etty (1787–1849)
* John Martin (1789–1854)
* William Linton (1791–1876)
* Sir George Hayter (1792–1871) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen
* Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872)
* Francis Danby (1793–1861)
* Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859)
* Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860)
* Henry Collen (1797–1879)
* Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
* Joseph Stannard (1797–1830)
* Frederick Richard Lee (1798–1879)
* Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861)
* Samuel Atkins, marine painter

### Born 19th century
#### Born 1800–1824

* John Hayter (1800–1895)
* Thomas Webster (1800–1886)
* James Digman Wingfield (1800-1872)
* Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
* Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
* John Scarlett Davis (1804–1845)
* Edwin Wilkins Field (1804–1871)
* William Knight Keeling (1807–1886)
* George Armfield (1808–1893)
* Thomas Baker (1809–1864)
* William Edward Frost (1810–1877)
* James Peel (1811-1906)
* Henry Dawson (1811–1878)
* Ebenezer Colls (1812–1887)
* Richard Barnett Spencer (1812–1897)
* Thomas Musgrave Joy (1812–1866)
* Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876)
* Harry Hall (c. 1814–1882)
* John Absolon (1815–1895)
* James Francis Danby (1816–1875)
* Augustus Egg (1816–1863)
* Edward Matthew Ward (1816–1879)
* Henry Mark Anthony (1817–1886)
* Branwell Brontë (1817–1848)
* Richard Dadd (1817–1886)
* Thomas Danby (1817–1886)
* John Callcott Horsley (1817–1903)
* John Phillip (1817–1867)
* George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
* Margaret Backhouse (1818–1888)
* Louisa Beresford (1818–1891)
* John Anster Fitzgerald (c. 1819–1906)
* William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
* James Sant (1820–1916)
* Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893)
* Charles Elder (1821–1851)
* Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901)
* James Smetham (1821–1889)
* Thomas Holroyd (1821–1904)
* Lefevre James Cranstone (1822–1893)
* Frederick Goodall (1822–1904)
* George Hardy (1822–1909)
* William Simpson (1823–1899)
* William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916)
* Martha Darley Mutrie (1824–1885)
* Frances Emilia Crofton (1822–1910)

#### Born 1825–1849

* Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916)
* Annie Feray Mutrie (1826–1893)
* David Cooke Gibson (1827–1856)
* Frederick Daniel Hardy (1827–1911)
* William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
* John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882)
* George Bernard O'Neill (1828–1917)
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
* Anna Blunden (1829–1915)
* John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897)
* John Finnie (1829–1907)
* Edwin Long (1829–1890)
* John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
* John Samuel Raven (1829–1877)
* Lord Frederick Leighton (1830–1896)
* Helen Mabel Trevor (1831–1900)
* Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
* Louise Rayner (1832–1924)
* Henrietta Ward (1832–1924)
* George Henry Boughton (1833–1905)
* Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898)
* Benjamin Williams Leader (1833–1921)
* Frederic Shields (1833–1911)
* William Morris (1834–1896)
* Emily Mary Osborn (1834–1913)
* Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – born in Dronrijp
* John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
* Walter Field (1837–1901)
* Charles Stuart (1838–1907)
* Walter Goodman (1838–1912)
* Horatio Joseph Lucas (1839-1873)
* Charles Edward Perugini (1839–1918)
* Kate Perugini (1839–1929)
* John Clayton Adams (1840–1906)
* Philip Augustus Barnard (1840–1884)
* Albert Joseph Moore (1841–1893)
* Edith Martineau (1842–1909)
* Edwin Ellis (1842–1895)
* Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922)
* Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – marine painter
* Clara Montalba (1842–1929)
* Herbert William Weekes (c. 1842–unknown)
* Louise Jopling (1843–1933)
* Bernard Walter Evans (1843–1922)
* Isabel Dacre (1844–1933)
* Tristram Ellis (1844–1922)
* Augustus Edwin Mulready (1844–1904)
* Frances C. Fairman (1839–1923)
* Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927)
* Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933)
* Edith Gittins (1845–1910)
* Louisa Starr (1845–1909)
* Edith Corbet (1846–1920)
* Walter Greaves (1846–1930)
* Kate Greenaway (1846–1901)
* William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919)
* Ellis Rowan (1847–1922)
* Helen Allingham (1848–1926)
* Helen Thornycroft (1848–1937)
* John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
* John Reinhard Weguelin (1849–1927)
* William Thornley (fl. 1858–1898)

#### Born 1850–1874

* Walter Daniel Batley (1850–1936)
* John Collier (1850–1934)
* Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914)
* Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909)
* George Clausen (1852–1944)
* Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (1852–1944)
* Charles Napier Kennedy (1852–1898)
* Walter Langley (1852–1922)
* Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)
* Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
* Alfred Robert Quinton (1853–1934)
* Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854–1929)
* Caroline Gotch (1854–1945)
* Frank Markham Skipworth (1854–1929)
* George Paice (1854–1925)
* Edward Wilkins Waite (1854–1924)
* Sara Page (1855–1943)
* Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)
* Alfred Wallis (1855–1942)
* Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919)
* Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893)
* Jane Mary Dealy, Lady Lewis (1856–1939)
* Alice Hirschberg (1856–1913)
* Joseph Vickers de Ville (1856–1925)
* William Wells Quatremain (1857–1930)
* William Stott-of-Oldham (1857–1900)
* Arthur Melville (1858–1904)
* Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929)
* George Henry (1858–1943)
* Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes (1859–1912)
* Henrietta Rae (1859–1928)
* Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940)
* Lewis Charles Powles (1860–1942)
* Christabel Cockerell (1863–1951)
* Margaret Bernadine Hall (1863–1910)
* George Phoenix (1863–1935)
* Arthur Wardle (1864–1949)
* Arthur Lowe (1865–1940)
* John Guille Millais (1865–1931)
* Louise Pickard (1865–1928)
* Charles Spencelayh (1865–1958)
* Milly Childers (1866–1922)
* Mary Davis, Lady Davis (1866–1941)
* Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1940)
* Roger Fry (1866–1934)
* Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
* Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) – born in Brussels
* Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – born in Bruges
* Percy Robertson (1868–1934)
* Ursula Wood (1868–1925)
* Mary Baylis Barnard (1870–1946)
* Mary McEvoy (1870–1941)
* Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898)
* Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
* William Heath Robinson (1872–1944)
* Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1932)
* Alexander Scott (1872–1932)
* William Nicholson (1872–1949)
* Louie Burrell (1873–1971)
* Amy Drucker (1873–1951)
* Arthur Miles Moss (1873-1948)
* Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942)
* Isabel Codrington (1874–1943)

#### Born 1875–1899

* Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
* Madge Oliver (1875–1924)
* Sophie Atkinson (1876–1972)
* Winifred Austen (1876–1964)
* Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers (1876–1939)
* Gwen John (1876–1939)
* Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
* Laura Knight (1877–1970)
* Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967)
* Walter Ernest Webster (1877–1959)
* Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960)
* Eliza Mary Burgess (1878–1961)
* May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878–1943)
* Augustus John (1878–1961)
* Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
* Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966)
* John Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954)
* Anna Airy (1882–1964)
* Gladys Kathleen Bell (1882–1965)
* Teresa Copnall (1882–1972)
* Helen Edwards (1882–1963)
* Richard Howard Penton (1882–1960)
* Eleanor Hughes (1882–1952)
* Averil Burleigh (1883–1949)
* Montague Birrell Black 1884-1964)
* John Currie (1884–1914)
* Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)
* Louisa Puller (1884–1963)
* Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976)
* Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
* Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934)
* Evelyn Abelson (1886–1967)
* Mary Jewels (1886–1977)
* James Ardern Grant (1887–1973)
* Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
* Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller (1887–1979)
* Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950)
* Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
* Paul Cranfield Smyth (1888–1963)
* Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960)
* Nora Cundell (1889–1948)
* Paul Nash (1889–1946)
* Cedric Morris (1889–1982)
* Marlow Moss (1889-1958)
* Sir Henry Rushbury (1889–1968)
* Ruth Simpson (1889–1964)
* David Bomberg (1890-1957)
* Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925)
* Leon Underwood (1890–1975)
* Grace English (1891–1956)
* Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
* Dora Carrington (1893–1932)
* Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968)
* Cowan Dobson (1894–1980)
* Kaff Gerrard (1894–1970)
* Meredith Frampton (1894–1984)
* Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
* Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)
* Henry George Hoyland (1895-1947)
* Harry Bateman (1896–1976)
* George Bissill (1896–1973)
* Leila Faithfull (1896–1994)
* Billie Waters (1896–1979)
* Dorothy Coke (1897–1979)
* Hans Feibusch (1898–1998) – born in Frankfurt, resided in England 1934–1998
* Winifred Knights (1899–1947)
* Rose Henriques (1889–1972)
* Francis Helps (1890–1972)

### Unknown year, born 19th century

* Edward Pritchett (fl. 1828–1864)
* Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879)
* Sara Macgregor (d. 1919)

### Born 20th century
#### Born 1900–1949

* George Lambourn (1900–1977)
* Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
* John Mansbridge (1901–1981)
* Marjorie May Bacon (1902–1988)
* Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
* Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
* John Melville (1902–1986)
* Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998)
* John Piper (1903–1992)
* Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
* Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
* Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
* Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
* Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
* Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
* George Fisher Gilmour (1904–1984)
* J. Edward Smith (1905–1986)
* Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
* Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
* Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997)
* Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999)
* Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
* Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
* Clifford Ellis (1907–1985)
* Frank Egginton (1908–1990)
* Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
* Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
* Mildred Eldridge (1909–1991)
* Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
* Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
* Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956)
* Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
* John Bensusan-Butt (1911–1997)
* John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
* Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
* Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
* Fay Pomerance (1912–2001)
* Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
* Leonard Appelbee (1914–2000)
* John Bridgeman (1914–2004)
* Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008)
* Doris Blair (born 1915)
* Terry Frost (1915–2003)
* William Gear (1915–1997)
* Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
* Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)
* Michael Kidner (1917–2009)
* Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
* Eden Box (1919–1988)
* Francis Davison (1919–1984)
* Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
* Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) – born in Berlin; lived in Liverpool
* Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
* John Christoforou (1921–2014)
* John Craxton (1922–2009)
* Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
* Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
* Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
* Paul Bird (1923–1993)
* Peter Folkes (1923–2019)
* Martin Froy (1926–2017)
* Eric Rimmington (1926–2024)
* Ann Thetis Blacker (1927–2006)
* Peter Brook (1927–2009)
* John Plumb (1927–2008)
* Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
* John Copnall (1928–2007)
* Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995)
* Adrian Morris (1929–2004)
* Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)
* Mardi Barrie (1930–2004)
* Robyn Denny (1930–2014)
* Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959) – born in Germany
* Frank Auerbach (1931–2024) – born in Germany
* Martin Bradley (1931–2023)
* Ken Messer (1931–2018)
* Bridget Riley (born 1931)
* Peter Blake (born 1932)
* Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
* Moira Huntly (born 1932)
* Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010)
* Marc Vaux (born 1932)
* Alexander Goudie (1933–2004)
* Dennis Roy Hodds (1933–1987)
* John Hoyland (1934–2011)
* Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
* Ivor Davies (born 1935)
* Ken Kiff (1935–2001)
* Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
* Timothy Behrens (1937–2017)
* David Hockney (born 1937)
* Tess Jaray (born 1937)
* Bryan Organ (born 1935)
* Margot Perryman (born 1938)
* William Tillyer (born 1938)
* Mario Dubsky (1939–1985)
* John Wonnacott (born 1940)
* Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
* Sheila Mullen (born 1942)
* Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
* Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944)
* Claire Dalby (born 1944)
* Bruce McLean (born 1944)
* Jonathon Coudrille (born 1945)
* P. J. Crook (born 1945)
* Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
* David Imms (born 1945)
* Sean Scully (born 1945) – born in Dublin; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad.
* Timothy Hyman (born 1946)
* Tony Foster (born 1946)
* Edward Kelly (born 1946)
* John Virtue (born 1947)
* Howard J. Morgan (1949–2020)
* Terance James Bond (1946–2023)

#### Born 1950–1999

* Cherryl Fountain (born 1950)
* Braaq (1951-1997)
* Roy Petley (born 1951)
* Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952-2012)
* Jeremy Henderson (1952-2009)
* Brian Clarke (born 1953)
* Shani Rhys James (born 1953)
* Deirdre Hyde (born 1953)
* Charlotte Verity (born 1954)
* Vivien Blackett (born 1955)
* Peter Edwards (born 1955)
* Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955)
* Jo Self (born 1956)
* Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
* John O'Carroll (born 1958)
* Peter Doig (born 1959)
* Claudette Johnson (born 1959)
* David Leapman (born 1959)
* Ian Davenport (born 1960)
* Nick Fudge (born 1960)
* Keith Piper (born 1960)
* Sonia Boyce (born 1962)
* Gary Hume (born 1962)
* Tod Hanson (born 1963)
* Guy Denning (born 1965)
* Damien Hirst (born 1965)
* George Shaw (born 1966)
* Chris Ofili (born 1968)
* Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
* Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
* Banksy (born c. 1974)
* Tom Palin (born 1974)
* Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975)
* Idris Khan (born 1978)
* Kate Groobey (born 1979)
* David Wightman (born 1980)
* Seb Toussaint (born 1988)
* Bianca Raffaella (born 1992)
* Rachel G. Patrick (born 1993)

### Unknown year, born 20th century

* Freya Douglas-Morris
* Charles Harris