List of British painters
The following is a list of notable English and 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 (or Philippe) 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
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
Born 1950–1999
- Cherryl Fountain
- Braaq
- Roy Petley
- Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE
- Jeremy Henderson
- Brian Clarke
- Shani Rhys James
- Deirdre Hyde
- Charlotte Verity
- Vivien Blackett
- Peter Edwards
- Nicholas Hely Hutchinson
- Jo Self
- Panayiotis Kalorkoti
- John O'Carroll
- Peter Doig
- Claudette Johnson
- David Leapman
- Ian Davenport
- Nick Fudge
- Keith Piper
- Sonia Boyce
- Gary Hume
- Tod Hanson
- Guy Denning
- Damien Hirst
- Mark Alexander
- George Shaw
- Chris Ofili
- Chantal Joffe
- Justin Mortimer
- Banksy
- Tom Palin
- Stuart Pearson Wright
- Idris Khan
- Kate Groobey
- David Wightman
- Seb Toussaint
- Emily Powell
- Bianca Raffaella