List of Scottish artists

Born before 1700

• John Alexander, painter and engraver
• Arnold Bronckhorst, Dutch painter, the first King's Painter of Scotland
• William Gouw Ferguson, still life painter, active in France and Italy
• Gawen Hamilton, painter largely working in London
• George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and jeweller
• George Jamesone, Scotland's first eminent portrait painter
• David Paton, active 1660–1700, painter of miniatures
• François Quesnel, Scotland-born French painter
• John Michael Wright, portrait painter in the Baroque style

  Born 1700–1799

• Cosmo Alexander, noted North American portrait painter
• David Allan, painter of historical subjects
• Andrew Bell, engraver and printer, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica
• John Zephaniah Bell, painter
• John Brown, artist
• Thomas Campbell, sculptor
• Alexander Carse, painter known for scenes of Scottish life
• Robert Edmonstone, painter
• Robert Freebairn, landscape painter
• Andrew Geddes, portrait painter and etcher
• John Watson Gordon, painter
• Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter
• David Ramsay Hay, artist, interior decorator and colour theorist
• Andrew Henderson, portrait painter
• John Kay, caricaturist and engraver
• William Home Lizars, painter and engraver
• William Miller, engraver
• Jacob More, landscape painter
• William Mossman, 1793–1851, sculptor
• Alexander Nasmyth, landscape painter
• Patrick Nasmyth, landscape painter, son of Alexander
• Jane Nasmyth, landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
• Barbara Nasmyth, landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
• Anne Nasmyth, landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
• Henry Raeburn, portrait painter
• Allan Ramsay, painter
• David Roberts, painter and lithographer
• Alexander Robertson, painter, brother of Andrew and Archibald
• Andrew Robertson, miniaturist painter
• Archibald Robertson, painter
• Alexander Runciman, painter of historical and mythical subjects
• John Runciman, painter known for Biblical and literary scenes, brother of Alexander
• Patrick Syme, flower-painter and color theorist
• Archibald Skirving, portrait painter
• Reverend John Thomson, landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
• William John Thomson RSA, portrait and miniaturist painter
• George Watson, painter
• David Wilkie, painter
• Hugh William Williams, landscape painter
• William Yellowlees, portrait painter

  Born 1800–1899

• John Brown Abercromby, painter ranging from traditional portraiture to avant-garde modernism
• Patrick Adam, painter
• Robert Adamson, photographer
• John Macdonald Aiken, water-colourist and oil painter
• Lena Alexander, painter
• Jessie Algie, flower painter
• Andrew Allan, lithographer
• Robert Weir Allan, water-colour and oil painter of landscape and marine subjects
• Marion Ancrum, water-colour painter
• Hazel Armour, sculptor and medallist
• James Arroll, painter
• George Bain, art teacher whose writing revived interest in Celtic and Insular art
• James Ballantine, artist and author
• Penelope Beaton, painter
• Jemima Blackburn, painter and illustrator
• John Blair, painter
• Muirhead Bone, etcher
• Phyllis Bone, sculptor
• William Bonnar, portraitist and history and genre painter
• William Brodie, sculptor
• Robert Brough, painter
• John Crawford Brown, landscape artist
• William Kellock Brown, sculptor
• Elizabeth York Brunton, painter
• Robert Bryden, artist, sculptor and engraver
• Thomas Stuart Burnett, sculptor
• Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, member of the Scottish Colourists school
• James Cadenhead, painter
• Alexander Milne Calder, sculptor known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall
• Sir David Young Cameron, painter and etcher
• Mary Cameron, portraitist
• George Paul Chalmers, painter
• Thomas J Clapperton, sculptor
• James Cowie, painter
• Hugh Adam Crawford, painter
• William Crozier, landscape painter
• Jessie Alexandra Dick, painter and teacher
• Sir William Fettes Douglas, painter
• Thomas Millie Dow, painter, member of the Glasgow Boys school
• Jack M. Ducker, painter specialising in Highland landscapes
• Ian Fairweather, Scottish/Australian painter
• Christian Jane Fergusson, Dumfries and Galloway landscape and still-life painter
• John Duncan Fergusson, member of the Scottish Colourists school
• Henry Snell Gamley, sculptor specialising in war memorials and tombs
• Robert Gavin, painter
• William Geissler, water-colourist of the natural world
• David Cooke Gibson, painter and poet
• James William Giles, Scottish landscape painter
• Sir William George Gillies, landscape and still-life painter
• Constance Frederica "Eka" Gordon-Cumming, travel writer and painter
• Mary Grant 1831–1908, sculptor
• Norah Neilson Gray, Glasgow School artist
• Herbert James Gunn, portraitist
• James Guthrie, painter
• Maggie Hamilton, painter
• Peter Alexander Hay
• John Henderson, painter and Director of Glasgow School of Art
• Joseph Henderson, Scottish landscape painter
• George Henry, painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School
• Joseph Morris Henderson, Scottish landscape painter
• Amelia Robertson Hill, sculptor and artist, wife of David Octavius
• David Octavius Hill, painter and photography pioneer as Hill & Adamson
• Edward Atkinson Hornel, painter of landscapes, flowers and foliage with children
• Anna Hotchkis, painter
• John Kelso Hunter, portrait painter and book author
• George Leslie Hunter, painter and Scottish Colourist
• Beatrice Huntington, artist, sculptor and musician
• John Hutchison,, sculptor
• Alexander Johnston, painter known for genre and history subjects
• Dorothy Johnstone, painter of landscapes and portraits, especially children
• Jeka Kemp, painter
• Annabel Kidston, painter
• Jessie M King, illustrator mainly of children's books, designer of jewellery and fabric
• Thomson Kirkwood, painter of landscapes and rural scenes
• Annie Rose Laing , painter
• Robert Scott Lauder, artist and portrait painter
• Andrew Law, artist and portrait painter
• William Mustart Lockhart, artist mainly of Glasgow-area landscapes in water-colours
• John Henry Lorimer, portraitist and genre painter, brother of the architect Robert Lorimer
• Robert Macaulay Stevenson, painter
• Robert Walker Macbeth, painter, water-colourist and print-maker
• Henry Macbeth-Raeburn, painter and print-maker
• Dugald MacColl
• Frances MacDonald, Glasgow School artist, sister of Margaret
• Margaret MacDonald, Glasgow School artist, wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• James MacGillivray, sculptor
• William York Macgregor, landscape artist
• Esther Blaikie MacKinnon, painter and engraver
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer, husband of Margaret MacDonald
• Chica Macnab, painter and wood engraver
• James Herbert MacNair, Glasgow School artist, designer and teacher
• Harrington Mann, portraitist and decorative painter, member of the Glasgow Boys movement
• George Manson, water-colourist
• James McBey, painter, etcher and war artist
• Horatio McCulloch, landscape painter
• R. R. McIan, painter
• William McTaggart, landscape painter
• Arthur Melville, painter remembered for Oriental subjects
• James Coutts Michie, landscape and portrait painter
• John Maclauchlan Milne, landscape painter
• Thomas Corsan Morton, artist known as one of the Glasgow Boys
• James MacLauchlan Nairn, Glasgow-born painter who influenced late-19th-century New Zealand painting
• Charlotte Nasmyth, landscape painter, daughter of Alexander Nasmyth
• Jessie Newbery, Glasgow School artist and embroiderer
• James Campbell Noble, landscape and marine painter
• Robert Noble,, painter of landscapes, first President of the Society of Scottish Artists
• Emily Murray Paterson, painter
• James Paterson, landscape and portrait painter associated with The Glasgow Boys movement
• Viola Paterson, painter, wood engraver
• Sir Joseph Noel Paton, painter of religious subjects
• Samuel John Peploe, member of the Scottish Colourist school of painting
• John Pettie, painter
• Sir George Pirie, artist associated with the Glasgow Boys in the 1880s
• John Quinton Pringle, painter influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and associated with the Glasgow Boys
• Annie Pirie Quibell, artist and archaeologist
• Arabella Rankin painter and coloured woodcut artist
• Anne Redpath, artist best known for still life works
• Sir George Reid, landscape and portrait painter
• John Robertson Reid, painter
• John Stevenson Rhind, sculptor
• Robert Sivell, painter
• Sir John Robert Steell RSA, sculptor, including the statue of Sir Walter Scott at the Scott Monument
• David Watson Stevenson, sculptor of portraits and monuments in marble and bronze
• William Grant Stevenson, sculptor and painter
• David Macbeth Sutherland, painter of Scottish and Breton landscapes, and of portraits
• Adam Bruce Thomson, The Edinburgh School artist, landscape and portrait painter
• Ottilie Maclaren Wallace, sculptor
• Edward Arthur Walton, painter of landscapes and portraits
• Cecile Walton, painter, illustrator and sculptor
• George Fiddes Watt, portrait painter and engraver
• James Cromar Watt, artist, architect and jeweller
• Saul Yaffie, Jewish artist later known as Paul Jeffay

  Born 1900–1949

• David Annand, sculptor
• Gordon Robert Archibald, painter
• Eric Auld, painter
• Robert Bain, sculptor and art professor in South Africa
• Edward Baird, painter
• Barbara Balmer, painter
• Mardi Barrie, painter
• John Bellany, painter
• Helen Biggar, sculptor, film-maker and theatre designer
• Douglas Robertson Bisset, sculptor
• Sam Black
• Robert Henderson Blyth
• Leonard Boden, portrait painter
• Margaret Boden, painter
• John Boyd, milliner
• Mary Syme Boyd, artist and sculptor
• Jimmy Boyle, sculptor, author and convicted murderer
• Mark Boyle
• Howard Butterworth, painter working in Aberdeenshire since the 1960s
• John Byrne
• W. Lindsay Cable, illustrator for Punch and Enid Blyton
• Robert Colquhoun, painter and print-maker
• Henry Robertson Craig landscape and flower painter
• Victoria Crowe
• Richard Demarco, artist and promoter of visual and performing arts
• David Abercrombie Donaldson, painter and limner to Her Majesty The Queen
• Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay, sculptor and modeller
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, sculptor and installation artist
• Hannah Frank, artist and sculptor
• Alison Cornwall Geissler MBE,, glass engraver
• Marianne Grant, artist
• Tom Gourdie, artist
• Alasdair Gray, artist and writer
• Thomas Symington Halliday, painter and sculptor
• Alison Kinnaird M.B.E, glass artist, musician, teacher and writer
• Hew Lorimer, sculptor and brother of the architect Robert Lorimer
• Edwin G Lucas, painter
• Robert MacBryde, painter and theatre-set designer
• Hamish MacDonald, artist
• Rory McEwen, artist and musician
• George McGavin, painter
• William MacTaggart, landscape painter
• John Maxwell, painter of landscapes and imaginative subjects
• David Michie, painter
• James Morrison, landscape painter
• John Lowrie Morrison, expressionist oil painter of Scottish landscapes
• Alberto Morrocco, artist
• Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor
• James McIntosh Patrick, painter of landscapes and portraits
• Ronald Rae, granite sculptor and artist
• Pat Semple, landscape artist
• Pamela So, multimedia artist and photographer
• Ancell Stronach, artist
• Alan Sutherland, portrait painter
• Alasdair Taylor, sculptor
• Sylvia Wishart, Orcadian landscape artist
• George Wyllie MBE, sculptor known for public art