List of British artists

Born before 1700

• Hans Holbein the Younger – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England
• Elizabeth Lucar - English Calligrapher
• Levina Teerlinc - Flemish-born artist, painter to Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century
• George Gower – English portrait painter
• Nicholas Hilliard – English goldsmith, limner, portrait miniature painter
• Rowland Lockey – English goldsmith, portrait miniaturist, painter
• Isaac Oliver – French-born English portrait miniature painter
• Anthony van Dyck – Flemish Baroque painter, watercolourist and etcher who became court painter in England
• Wenceslaus Hollar – Czech etcher
• Samuel Cooper – English miniature painter
• John Michael Wright – British baroque portrait painter
• Peter Lely – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England
• Francis Barlow – English painter, etcher, and illustrator
• David Loggan – English baroque painter, born in Danzig
• Godfrey Kneller – portrait painter in England
• Edward Pierce
• Francis Place – English potter and engraver
• James Thornhill – English painter of historical subjects
• Jonathan Richardson – English portrait painter
• Peter Monamy – English marine painter
• John Wootton – English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes
• Pieter Andreas Rysbrack – Flemish painter working in London
• John Michael Rysbrack – Flemish sculptor working in London
• John Vanderbank – English portrait painter and book illustrator
• William Hogarth – English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist

  Born 1700–1799

• Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects
• Louis-François Roubiliac – French sculptor whose works reside in Westminster Abbey
• Samuel Scott – British landscape painter
• James Seymour – English painter especially of equestrian art
• William Hoare – English painter especially of pastels
• Francis Hayman – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
• Arthur Devis – English portrait painter, especially of conversation pieces and other small portraits
• Allan Ramsay – Scottish portrait painter
• Richard Wilson – Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy
• Alexander Cozens – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting
• Charles Brooking – English painter
• Joshua Reynolds – English painter specialising in portraits
• George Stubbs – British painter especially of horses
• James Lambert – English landscape painter
• Francis Cotes – English painter
• Thomas Gainsborough – English portrait and landscape painter
• Paul Sandby – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
• Sawrey Gilpin – English animal painter
• Johann Zoffany – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England
• George Romney – English portrait painter
• Joseph Wright – English landscape and portrait painter
• Alexander Runciman – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects
• Mary Black – English portrait painter
• Joseph Nollekens – sculptor from London
• Francis Towne – English watercolour painter
• Angelica Kauffman – Swiss-Austrian painter
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – English artist of French origin
• William Marlow – English landscape and marine artist
• John Hamilton Mortimer – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings
• Matthew William Peters English portrait painter
• James Barry – Irish painter
• Henry Fuseli – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin
• Richard Cosway – English portrait painter, miniaturist
• Ozias Humphry – English painter of portrait miniatures
• John Robert Cozens – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes
• Thomas Bewick – English wood engraver and ornithologist
• Thomas Stothard – painter and dramatist
• Henry Raeburn – Scottish portrait painter
• Thomas Rowlandson – English artist and caricaturist
• William Blake – English poet, painter, and printmaker
• Alexander Nasmyth – Scottish portrait and landscape painter
• Lemuel Francis Abbott – English portrait painter
• Thomas Lawrence – English painter, mostly of portraits
• Charles Fairfield – English painter, mostly known as a copyist
• John Charles Felix Rossi – sculptor
• Arthur William Devis – English painter of history paintings and portraits
• George Morland – English painter of animals and rustic scenes
• Joshua Cristall – Cornish watercolour painter
• John Crome – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters
• Martin Archer Shee – Irish painter and President of the Royal Academy
• Thomas Lawrence – English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy
• James Ward – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
• Thomas Phillips – English portrait and subject painter
• Henry James Richter – engraver and painter
• François Hüet Villiers – French-born portrait painter, resident in London
• Anne Frances Byrne – painter of flowers and still lifes
• Thomas Girtin – English painter, watercolourist, and etcher
• Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet – painter of landscapes and horses
• J. M. W. Turner – English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
• John Constable – English Romantic painter
• John Higton – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
• Maria Spilsbury – painter of religious subjects
• John Masey Wright – watercolour painter
• John Varley – English watercolour painter and astrologer
• Augustus Wall Callcott – English landscape painter
• Samuel Colman – English painter
• James Holworthy – watercolour painter
• John Sell Cotman – artist of the Norwich school, mainly in watercolour
• Frederick Nash – architectural and landscape painter
• David Cox – English landscape painter
• Samuel Prout – English watercolour painter
• Peter De Wint – English landscape painter
• John Romney – mainly printmaking and watercolour
• David Wilkie – Scottish painter
• William Mulready – Irish genre painter living in London
• Benjamin Haydon – English historical painter and writer
• Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding - English watercolor painter of landscapes
• Patrick Nasmyth – Scottish landscape painter
• John Martin – English painter
• William Henry Hunt – English watercolor painter
• George Hayter English painter, specialising in portraits
• John Linnell – English landscape painter
• Francis Danby – Irish painter
• Edward Calvert – English printmaker and painter
• James Holland – landscape painter and illustrator
• David Ogborne – English painter of events and curiosities in Essex
• Eglington Margaret Pearson – stained glass painter
• Cosmo Armstrong – English line-engraver

  Born 1800–1899

• Richard Parkes Bonington – English Romantic landscape painter
• Edwin Henry Landseer – English painter and sculptor especially of animals, particularly horses, dogs, and stags
• Thomas Shotter Boys – English watercolourist
• Thomas Sidney Cooper – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals
• John Steell – Scottish sculptor
• John Frederick Lewis – Orientalist English painter
• Samuel Palmer – English landscape painter, etcher, and printmaker
• William Dyce – Scottish artist
• John Greville Fennell – landscape painter
• Arthur Elliot – British watercolourist
• Thomas Mogford – English portrait painter and landscape painter
• James John Hill – English painter
• Edmund John Niemann – English painter
• Lucette Barker – English painter
• William James Blacklock – English landscape artist, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders
• Edward Armitage – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects
• Richard Dadd – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes
• Walter Hood Fitch – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
• Alfred Tippinge – British Grenadier Guard who sent home paintings of the Crimean War
• George Frederic Watts – English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement
• Branwell Brontë – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer
• William Hemsley – English genre painter; vice president of the Society of British Artists
• William Powell Frith – English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives
• James Sant – English court and society painter
• George Gammon Adams - English sculptor and medallist
• Ford Madox Brown – English painter of moral and historical subjects
• Lefevre James Cranstone – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America
• Frances Emilia Crofton – Anglo-Irish artist
• Frederick Goodall – English artist specialising in oriental scenes
• Frederick William Keyl – German-born British painter of animals
• Charles Davidson – English watercolour painter
• Henry Alexander Bowler – English painter and academic
• Abraham Solomon – English painter
• Thomas Woolner – English sculptor and poet
• Barbara Bodichon – English educationalist and landscape artist
• William Holman Hunt – British painter, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Robert Taylor Pritchett – English watercolourist and illustrator
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
• Anna Blunden – English painter
• James Docharty – Scottish landscape painter
• Edwin Long – English orientalist painter, depicting Biblical and Middle Eastern subjects
• John Everett Millais – English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• John Henry Dell – English painter and illustrator
• Alfred William Hunt – English painter
• Frederic Leighton – English painter and sculptor especially of historical, biblical and classical subject matter
• Charles James Lewis – English painter in oils and watercolours
• Marianne North – English naturalist and flower painter
• Walter Severn – English watercolourist
• John William Bailey – British miniature painter
• Benjamin Williams Leader – English painter
• Louise Rayner – English watercolourist
• Arthur Hughes – English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• William Quiller Orchardson – Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects
• Daniel Charles Grose – English painter
• Edward Burne-Jones – English artist and designer
• Joseph Clark – English oil painter of domestic scenes
• William Morris – English artist, writer, and socialist
• James McNeill Whistler – American-born, British-based painter and etcher
• Wyke Bayliss – English painter of churches and cathedrals
• William McTaggart – Scottish landscape painter
• Arthur Boyd Houghton – British painter and illustrator
• John Atkinson Grimshaw – English painter especially of landscapes
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – British classical-subject painter
• James Tissot – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects
• John Sowden – English watercolourist
• Horatio Joseph Lucas – English artist
• Simeon Solomon – English Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Frederick Walker – English Social Realist painter and illustrator in watercolours and oils
• Albert Moore – English painter especially of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world
• Alexander Rossi – British artist specializing in genre works
• Thomas Bush Hardy – British marine painter and watercolourist
• William John Seward Webber – English sculptor
• Lucy Madox Brown – English painter and watercolourist
• Walter Crane – English artist and book illustrator
• Frank Holl – English painter
• Walter Greaves – English painter
• James Campbell Noble – Scottish landscape, seascape and portrait painter
• John Eyre – English genre painter, illustrator, painted and designed pottery
• Ralph Hedley – English realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator
• John William Waterhouse – English Pre-Raphaelite painter especially of female characters from mythology and literature
• Henry Richard Hope-Pinker – English sculptor
• John Collier – British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style
• Robert Weir Allan – Glasgow-born painter of landscape and marine subjects
• John Charles Dollman – English narrative, landscape and animal painter
• Edward Robert Hughes – English painter in a Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism style
• Edmund Leighton – English painter in Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic styles
• Frank Dicksee – English Victorian painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes
• Maude Goodman – English Victorian fine art painter and children's book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings
• Caroline Gotch – English painter associated with the Newlyn School of artists
• Walter Dendy Sadler – English painter
• Alfred Wallis – Cornish fisherman and artist
• David Winder – Bolton, Lancashire-born British artist; oil and watercolour
• James Pittendreigh MacGillivray – Scottish sculptor
• Alfred William Rich – English landscape artist
• John Singer Sargent – Expatriate American living in England; leading portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolourist
• Richard Caton Woodville – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes
• Joseph Benwell Clark – English landscape painter and book illustrator
• Stanhope Forbes – British artist, founder of the Newlyn School
• Arthur Hacker – English classicist painter
• Henry Scott Tuke – English painter who lived in Cornwall, best known for his maritime paintings and male nudes
• Walter Sickert – English Impressionist painter
• Solomon Joseph Solomon – English painter of mythological scenes and portraits
• Philip Wilson Steer – English artist
• Harriet Isabel Adams – British artist and illustrator
• Lily Delissa Joseph – English painter
• Charles Edgar Buckeridge – church decorative artist
• Archibald Standish Hartrick – Scottish painter
• Arthur Wardle – English painter
• William Edwin Pimm – British artist, oil and watercolours
• Thomas Edwin Mostyn – English painter
• Arthur Lowe – English landscape artist from Kinoulton, Nottingham
• Robert Bevan – British painter
• H. Gustave Hiller – mainly of stained glass
• Roger Fry – English artist and art critic
• Henry Charles Fehr – English sculptor
• Norah Fulcher – English watercolour portrait artist
• Mabel Lee Hankey – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory
• Frank Brangwyn – Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer
• J M Balliol Salmon – British painter
• Charles Murray Padday – English painter
• Ursula Wood – English painter
• Lamorna Birch – English painter
• Lucy Kemp-Welch – English equine artist
• Henry Crocket – landscape painter
• William Ratcliffe – English artist
• Phelan Gibb – British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910–1914
• Sholto Johnstone Douglas – Scottish artist
• Florence Engelbach – English painter born in Spain
• Alfred Garth Jones – English artist and illustrator
• William Nicholson – English painter, illustrator and author of children's books
• Aubrey Beardsley – English illustrator and author especially of erotic illustrations
• Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale – English artist and illustrator
• Louie Burrell – English painter
• Francis William Doyle Jones – English sculptor
• Isabel Codrington – English painter
• John Duncan Fergusson – Scottish artist, one of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
• Hilda May Gordon – British watercolourist
• Frank O. Salisbury – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works
• Dorothea Sharp – British landscape painter
• Eleanor Best – portrait and figure painter
• Evelyn Cheston – English landscape painter
• Alice Kirkby Goyder – English painter and etcher
• Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond – English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits, and industrial paintings
• Henry Bates Joel – English landscape painter
• Margaret Fisher Prout – English painter
• Walter Dexter – English oil and watercolour artist, particularly of Norfolk
• Harold Gilman – English artist and founder-member of the Camden Town Group
• Gwen John – Welsh artist
• Horace Tuck – Norfolk artist of oil and watercolour landscapes
• Florence Mabel Hollams – painter of dogs and horses
• Laura Knight – British artist
• Frank Cadogan Cowper – English artist
• Donald Maxwell – English illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours
• Hilda Annetta Walker – English sculptor and painter
• Denis Eden – painter and illustrator
• Charles Ginner – French-born painter, member of Camden Town Group
• Spencer Gore – British painter who was the first president of the Camden Town Group
• Augustus John – Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher
• Louis Frederick Roslyn – English sculptor
• Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA – English artist, particularly renowned for equine subject matter
• Ada Hill Walker – scientific illustrator and artist
• William Reid Dick – Scottish sculptor
• Vanessa Bell – English painter and interior designer
• Gertrude Harvey – English landscape painter
• Matthew Smith – English painter
• Malcolm Drummond – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors
• Jacob Epstein – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture
• Elsie Henderson – English painter and sculptor
• Harry Morley – English painter
• Eric Gill – British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker
• Percy Wyndham Lewis – English painter and author
• Henry Lamb – Australian-born British painter
• Victoria Monkhouse – English painter
• Arthur Watts – illustrator
• Montague Birrell Black – English illustrator and painter
• Elinor Proby Adams – English painter
• Duncan Grant – Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group
• Gwen Raverat – English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers
• Randolph Schwabe – English artist
• Joseph Hermon Cawthra – English sculptor
• Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot – English painter
• Austin Osman Spare – English artist and occultist
• L. S. Lowry – English artist
• Elizabeth Polunin – English artist and theatre designer
• Arthur James F. Bond – English painter of maritime subjects
• Sydney Carline – English artist
• David Dougal Williams – British artist and art teacher
• Margaret Lindsay Williams – Welsh portrait painter
• Edith Grace Wheatley – English painter
• Robert Gibbings – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural history
• Paul Nash – English war artist
• Christopher Nevinson – English painter and vorticist
• Ruth Simpson – English portrait painter
• Edward Wadsworth – English artist
• David Bomberg – English painter and one of the Whitechapel Boys
• Charles Cundall – English painter
• Joseph Gray – English painter
• Nina Hamnett – Welsh artist and writer
• Francis Helps – English artist
• Edmond Xavier Kapp – English artist
• Iain Macnab – Scottish painter
• Olive Mudie-Cooke – English painter
• Leon Underwood – British sculptor, painter, and engraver
• Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – French sculptor and vorticist
• Mark Gertler – British portrait and landscape painter
• Stanley Spencer – English painter
• Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd – English portrait painter
• Elsa Fraenkel – German-born British sculptor
• Colin Gill – English painter
• Gilbert Spencer – British painter
• Harold Sandys Williamson – British painter
• John Armstrong – British artist
• John Nash – English painter, illustrator, and engraver
• Winifred Nicholson – English painter
• Orovida Camille Pissarro – English painter and etcher
• Leonard Squirrell – English watercolourist and etcher
• Henry Matthew Talintyre – British artist
• Flora Twort – English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels
• Henry Carr – British painter
• Meredith Frampton – British artist
• Alethea Garstin – Cornish painter
• Ben Nicholson – English abstract painter
• Dora Clarke – English sculptor
• David Jones – Welsh artist and British modernist poet
• William Roberts – English painter and war artist
• Raymond Coxon – British artist
• Leila Faithfull – British artist
• Harry Barr – English painter
• John Buckland Wright – New Zealand-born illustrator
• Harold Williamson – British painter, designer, etcher and teacher
• Henry Moore – English artist and sculptor
• Rodney Joseph Burn – English artist
• Winifred Knights – English painter