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) Samuel Scott (1702–1772) 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)William Upcott, English Topography; Dodd, MS. History of English Engravers, British Library Add MS 33401 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) Theophila Gwatkin (1757–1848) Thomas Hardy (1757-1804) John Hoppner (1758–1810) George William Sartorius (1759–1828) Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) 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) Martin Archer Shee (1767–1850) James Ward (1769–1859) Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) 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) Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793–1867) Francis Danby (1793–1861) Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860) David Roberts (1796–1864) 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 ArmfieldGeorge Armfield paintings, BBC Your Paintings. Retrieved 21 June 2013. (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)Joy, Thomas Musgrave, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 June 2013. 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 (1841–1914) 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) Jessie Case Vesel (1855–1937)

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) Wright Barker (1863–1941) 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)Westmorland Gazette: 'The Amazon Chaplaincy', November 6, 1926 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) Ethel Fanny Everett (1877-1951) 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)