List of British painters

English painters

Born 16th century

• George Gower
• Nicolas Hilliard
• Sir Nathaniel Bacon
• Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen
• Sir Anthony van Dyck born in Antwerp; Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• William Larkin

  Born 17th century

• Emmanuel de Critz
• William Dobson
• John Michael Wright
• Peter Lely Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II
• Oliver de Critz
• Henry Gibbs
• Edward Bower
• Henry Cooke
• Sir Godfrey Kneller
• John Riley, or Ryley
• Marmaduke Cradock
• Sir James Thornhill
• Edward Byng
• Peter Monamy
• John Wootton
• Isaac Whood
• Joseph Highmore
• John Vanderbank
• William Hogarth

  British painters

Born 18th century

• Thomas Hudson
• Samuel Scott
• Mary Hoare
• William Hoare
• Francis Hayman
• Sir William Beechey
• John Shackleton Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III
• Richard Wilson
• William Keable
• Charles Brooking
• Sir Joshua Reynolds Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• George Stubbs
• Thomas Gainsborough
• Sawrey Gilpin
• Johann Zoffany born in Frankfurt
• Peter Perez Burdett
• George Romney
• Joseph Wright of Derby
• Jeremiah Meyer born in Tübingen
• Richard Wright
• Amos Green
• Mary Benwell
• John Hamilton Mortimer
• Henry Fuseli born in Zürich
• Matthew William Peters
• Mary Moser
• William Hodges
• Henry Walton
• William Tate
• Richard Morton Paye
• Joseph Barney
• Charles Lewis still life painter
• Maria Bell
• Prince Hoare the Younger painter and dramatist
• Philip Jean of Jersey
• Thomas Stothard
• Henry Bone
• William Blake
• Thomas Hardy
• John Hoppner
• George William Sartorius
• Lemuel Francis Abbott
• Sir Thomas Lawrence Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• George Augustus Wallis
• George Morland
• Samuel Drummond
• John Crome
• Thomas Barker
• Martin Archer Shee
• James Ward
• Thomas Phillips
• William Armfield Hobday
• Edward Bird
• Charles Henry Schwanfelder
• Thomas Girtin
• Joseph Mallord William Turner
• John Constable
• John Jackson
• John Varley
• William John Huggins, marine painter
• Richard Barrett Davis
• John Sell Cotman
• David Cox
• Sir David Wilkie Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
• Caroline Maria Applebee
• Benjamin Haydon
• William Mulready
• William Etty
• John Martin
• William Linton
• Sir George Hayter Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen
• Margaret Sarah Carpenter
• Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
• Francis Danby
• Charles Robert Leslie
• Sir William Charles Ross
• David Roberts
• Henry Collen
• Paul Delaroche
• Joseph Stannard
• Frederick Richard Lee
• Thomas Witlam Atkinson
• Samuel Atkins, marine painter

  Born 19th century

Born 1800–1824

• John Hayter
• Thomas Webster
• James Digman Wingfield
• Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
• Thomas Sidney Cooper
• John Scarlett Davis
• Edwin Wilkins Field
• William Knight Keeling
• George Armfield
• Thomas Baker
• William Edward Frost
• James Peel
• Henry Dawson
• Ebenezer Colls
• Richard Barnett Spencer
• Thomas Musgrave Joy
• Edmund John Niemann
• Harry Hall
• John Absolon
• James Francis Danby
• Augustus Egg
• Edward Matthew Ward
• Henry Mark Anthony
• Branwell Brontë
• Richard Dadd
• Thomas Danby
• John Callcott Horsley
• John Phillip
• George Frederic Watts
• Margaret Backhouse
• Louisa Beresford
• John Anster Fitzgerald
• William Powell Frith
• James Sant
• Ford Madox Brown
• Charles Elder
• Sir Joseph Noel Paton
• James Smetham
• Thomas Holroyd
• Lefevre James Cranstone
• Frederick Goodall
• George Hardy
• William Simpson
• William Shakespeare Burton
• Martha Darley Mutrie
• Frances Emilia Crofton

  Born 1825–1849

• Eleanor Vere Boyle
• Annie Feray Mutrie
• David Cooke Gibson
• Frederick Daniel Hardy
• William Holman Hunt
• John Wharlton Bunney
• George Bernard O'Neill
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Anna Blunden
• John Bagnold Burgess
• John Finnie
• Edwin Long
• John Everett Millais
• John Samuel Raven
• Lord Frederick Leighton
• Helen Mabel Trevor
• Arthur Hughes
• Louise Rayner
• Henrietta Ward
• George Henry Boughton
• Edward Burne-Jones
• Benjamin Williams Leader
• Frederic Shields
• William Morris
• Emily Mary Osborn
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema born in Dronrijp
• John Atkinson Grimshaw
• Walter Field
• Charles Stuart
• Walter Goodman
• Horatio Joseph Lucas
• Charles Edward Perugini
• Kate Perugini
• John Clayton Adams
• Philip Augustus Barnard
• Albert Joseph Moore
• Edith Martineau
• Edwin Ellis
• Sydney Prior Hall
• Thomas Bush Hardy – marine painter
• Clara Montalba
• Herbert William Weekes
• Louise Jopling
• Bernard Walter Evans
• Isabel Dacre
• Tristram Ellis
• Augustus Edwin Mulready
• Frances C. Fairman
• Marie Spartali Stillman
• Annie Swynnerton
• Edith Gittins
• Louisa Starr
• Edith Corbet
• Walter Greaves
• Kate Greenaway
• William Biscombe Gardner
• Ellis Rowan
• Helen Allingham
• Helen Thornycroft
• John William Waterhouse
• John Reinhard Weguelin
• William Thornley

  Born 1850–1874

• Walter Daniel Batley
• John Collier
• Edward Robert Hughes
• Laura Alma-Tadema
• George Clausen
• Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr.
• Charles Napier Kennedy
• Walter Langley
• Frank Bernard Dicksee
• Edmund Blair Leighton
• Alfred Robert Quinton
• Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois
• Caroline Gotch
• Frank Markham Skipworth
• George Paice
• Edward Wilkins Waite
• Sara Page
• Marianne Stokes
• Jessie Case Vesel
• Alfred Wallis
• Evelyn De Morgan
• Robert C. Barnfield
• Jane Mary Dealy, Lady Lewis
• Alice Hirschberg
• Joseph Vickers de Ville
• William Wells Quatremain
• William Stott-of-Oldham
• Arthur Melville
• Henry Scott Tuke
• George Henry
• Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes
• Henrietta Rae
• Charles W. Bartlett
• Lewis Charles Powles
• Wright Barker
• Christabel Cockerell
• Margaret Bernadine Hall
• George Phoenix
• Arthur Wardle
• Arthur Lowe
• John Guille Millais
• Louise Pickard
• Charles Spencelayh
• Milly Childers
• Mary Davis, Lady Davis
• Helen Thomas Dranga
• Roger Fry
• Helen Beatrix Potter
• Anna Alma-Tadema born in Brussels
• Frank Brangwyn born in Bruges
• Percy Robertson
• Ursula Wood
• Mary Baylis Barnard
• Mary McEvoy
• Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
• Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
• William Heath Robinson
• Henry Keyworth Raine
• Alexander Scott
• William Nicholson
• Louie Burrell
• Amy Drucker
• Arthur Miles Moss
• Edmund Hodgson Smart
• Isabel Codrington

  Born 1875–1899

• Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond
• Madge Oliver
• Sophie Atkinson
• Winifred Austen
• Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers
• Gwen John
• Frank Cadogan Cowper
• Laura Knight
• Frank Montague Moore
• Walter Ernest Webster
• Hilda Annetta Walker
• Eliza Mary Burgess
• May Louise Greville Cooksey
• Augustus John
• Vanessa Bell
• Gertrude Harvey
• John Hodgson Lobley
• Anna Airy
• Gladys Kathleen Bell
• Teresa Copnall
• Helen Edwards
• Richard Howard Penton
• Eleanor Hughes
• Averil Burleigh
• Montague Birrell Black 1884-1964)
• John Currie
• Wyndham Lewis
• Louisa Puller
• Hilary Dulcie Cobbett
• Duncan Grant
• Esther Blaikie MacKinnon
• Evelyn Abelson
• Mary Jewels
• James Ardern Grant
• Laurence Stephen Lowry
• Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller
• Elizabeth Polunin
• Stanley Royle
• Paul Cranfield Smyth
• Margaret Lindsay Williams
• Nora Cundell
• Paul Nash
• Cedric Morris
• Marlow Moss
• Sir Henry Rushbury
• Ruth Simpson
• David Bomberg
• Olive Mudie-Cooke
• Leon Underwood
• Grace English
• Stanley Spencer
• Dora Carrington
• Orovida Camille Pissarro
• Cowan Dobson
• Kaff Gerrard
• Meredith Frampton
• Ben Nicholson
• Cicely Mary Barker
• Henry George Hoyland
• Harry Bateman
• George Bissill
• Leila Faithfull
• Billie Waters
• Dorothy Coke
• Hans Feibusch – born in Frankfurt, resided in England 1934–1998
• Winifred Knights
• Rose Henriques
• Francis Helps

  Unknown year, born 19th century

• Edward Pritchett
• Florence Claxton
• Sara Macgregor

  Born 20th century

Born 1900–1949

• George Lambourn
• Elsie Dalton Hewland
• John Mansbridge
• Marjorie May Bacon
• Marjorie Frances Bruford
• Frank Barrington Craig
• John Melville
• Thomas Symington Halliday
• John Piper
• Eric Ravilious
• Ceri Richards
• Graham Sutherland
• Mary Adshead
• Celia Frances Bedford
• Helen Binyon
• George Fisher Gilmour
• J. Edward Smith
• Griselda Allan
• Eliot Hodgkin
• Cecil Kennedy
• Emmy Bridgwater
• Patrick Hall
• Edgar Hubert
• Clifford Ellis
• Frank Egginton
• Isobel Heath
• Thomas Carr
• Mildred Eldridge
• Geoffrey Tibble
• Francis Bacon
• Peter Rose Pulham
• Isabel Alexander
• John Bensusan-Butt
• John Kingsley Cook
• Anthony Devas
• Gwen Barnard
• Fay Pomerance
• Raymond Teague Cowern
• Leonard Appelbee
• John Bridgeman
• Sylvia Molloy
• Doris Blair
• Terry Frost
• William Gear
• Eileen Aldridge
• Leonora Carrington
• Michael Kidner
• Mary Audsley
• Eden Box
• Francis Davison
• Colin Hayes
• Heinz Koppel born in Berlin; lived in Liverpool
• Patrick Heron
• John Christoforou
• John Craxton
• Richard Hamilton
• Lucian Freud
• Pamela Ascherson
• Paul Bird
• Peter Folkes
• Martin Froy
• Eric Rimmington
• Ann Thetis Blacker
• Peter Brook
• John Plumb
• Patrick Swift born in Ireland
• John Copnall
• Elizabeth Jane Lloyd
• Adrian Morris
• Gillian Ayres
• Mardi Barrie
• Robyn Denny
• Eva Frankfurther born in Germany
• Frank Auerbach born in Germany
• Martin Bradley
• Ken Messer
• Bridget Riley
• Peter Blake
• Howard Hodgkin
• Moira Huntly
• Norman Douglas Hutchinson
• Marc Vaux
• Alexander Goudie
• Dennis Roy Hodds
• John Hoyland
• Jeremy Moon
• Ivor Davies
• Ken Kiff
• Patrick Caulfield
• Timothy Behrens
• David Hockney
• Tess Jaray
• Bryan Organ
• Margot Perryman
• William Tillyer
• Mario Dubsky
• John Wonnacott
• Robert Lenkiewicz
• Sheila Mullen
• Osi Rhys Osmond
• Lindsay Bartholomew
• Claire Dalby
• Bruce McLean
• Jonathon Coudrille
• P. J. Crook
• Ali Omar Ermes
• David Imms
• Sean Scully – born in Dublin; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad.
• Timothy Hyman
• Tony Foster
• Edward Kelly
• John Virtue
• Howard J. Morgan
• Terance James Bond