British Artists: (biographies & artworks)

Please select from the list of British artists. Biographies as well as artwork images are available. You can also discover artists by art movement or by century (11th - 20th).

Abbott, Lemuel Francis - (1760 - 1803)
Abbott, Henry - ( - )
Abercrombie, Sir Patrick - (1879 - 1957)
Abrahams, Ivor - (1935 - )
Achilleos, Chris - (1947 - )
Adam, Robert - (1728 - 1792)
Adamson, John - (1810 - 1870)
Agar, Eileen - (1899 - 1991)
Ahrends, Burton & Koralek - (1933 - )
Airy, Anna - (1882 - 1964)
Alexander, William - (1767 - 1816)
Alken, Henry Thomas - (1785 - 1851)
Alken Sr., Samuel - (1756 - 1815)
Allan, David - (1744 - 1796)
Allan, William - (1782 - 1850)
Andrews, Michael - (1928 - 1995)
Ansdell, Richard - (1815 - 1885)
Armitage, Edward - (1817 - 1896)
Armitage, Kenneth - (1916 - 2002)
Arnald, George - (1763 - 1841)
Atkinson, John Augustus - (1775 - 1833)
Ayrton, Michael - (1921 - 1975)
Bacon, Sir Nathaniel - (1585 - 1627)
Barker of Bath, Thomas - (1769 - 1847)
Barlow, Francis - (1626 - 1704)
Barret Jr., George - (1767 - 1842)
Barret Sr., George - (1728 - 1784)
Barron, Hugh - (1747 - 1791)
Bartlett, William Henry - (1809 - 1859)
Basire, James - (1730 - 1802)
Baxter, George - (1804 - 1867)
Beach, Thomas - (1738 - 1806)
Beale, Mary - (1633 - 1699)
Beard, Richard - (1802 - 1885)
Beare, George - (1743 - 1749)
Beato, Felice A. - (1825 - 1908)
Beaumont, Sir George Howland - (1753 - 1827)
Becker, Ferdinand - (1739 - 1825)
Bedford, Francis - (1816 - 1894)
Beechey, Sir William - (1753 - 1839)
Behnes, William - (1795 - 1864)
Bell, Graham - (1910 - 1943)
Bell, Vanessa - (1879 - 1961)
Bettes, John - (1530 - 1580)
Birch, Thomas - (1779 - 1851)
Blackburn, Joseph - (1700 - 1780)
Blake, Peter - (1932 - )
Bomberg, David - (1890 - 1957)
Bone, Henry - (1755 - 1834)
Boshier, Derek - (1937 - )
Boxall, Sir William - (1800 - 1879)
Boys, Thomas Shotter - (1803 - 1874)
Brandard, Robert - (1805 - 1862)
Brangwyn, Sir Frank William - (1867 - 1956)
Bratby, John - (1928 - 1992)
Bright, Henry - (1810 - 1873)
Brock, Sir Thomas - (1847 - 1922)
Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie - (1890 - 1978)
Brompton, Richard - (1734 - 1782)
Brooke, William Henry - (1772 - 1860)
Brooking, Charles - (1722 - 1759)
Browne, Hablot Knight - (1815 - 1882)
Buck, Samuel - (1696 - 1779)
Bunbury, Henry William - (1750 - 1811)
Burnet, John - (1784 - 1868)
Bushnell, John - (1630 - 1701)
Butler, Elizabeth - (1846 - 1933)
Butler, Reg - (1913 - 1981)
Buttersworth, Thomas - (1768 - 1828)
Callcott, Sir Augustus Wall - (1779 - 1844)
Callow, William - (1812 - 1908)
Calvert, Edward - (1799 - 1883)
Cameron, Julia Margaret - (1815 - 1879)
Carmichael, John Wilson - (1800 - 1868)
Caro, Sir Anthony - (1924 - )
Catesby, Mark - (1682 - 1749)
Chadwick, Lynn - (1912 - 2003)
Chalon, Alfred - (1780 - 1860)
Chalon, Henry Bernard - (1770 - 1849)
Chambers, Thomas - (1808 - 1866)
Chantrey, Sir Francis - (1781 - 1841)
Chatelain, Jean Baptiste Claude - (1710 - 1758)
Chinnery, George - (1774 - 1852)
Churchyard, Thomas - (1798 - 1865)
Clark, Thomas - (1814 - 1883)
Clausen, Sir George - (1852 - 1944)
Claxton, Marshall - (1811 - 1881)
Clint, George - (1770 - 1854)
Collet, John - (1725 - 1780)
Collings, Samuel - (1784 - 1789)
Collins, Charles - (1680 - 1744)
Collins, William - (1788 - 1847)
Colman 1780-1845, Samuel - (1780 - 1845)
Colquhoun, Robert - (1914 - 1962)
Cooke, Edward William - (1811 - 1880)
Cooke, George - (1781 - 1834)
Cooper, Abraham - (1787 - 1868)
Cooper, Thomas Sidney - (1803 - 1902)
Cooper Jr., Richard - (1740 - 1814)
Cope, Charles West - (1811 - 1890)
Corbould, Henry - (1787 - 1844)
Cosway, Maria - (1760 - 1838)
Cosway, Richard - (1742 - 1821)
Cotes, Francis - (1726 - 1770)
Cotman, John Joseph - (1814 - 1878)
Cousins, Samuel - (1801 - 1887)
Cox, David - (1783 - 1857)
Cozens, Alexander - (1717 - 1786)
Cradock, Marmaduke - (1660 - 1717)
Crane, Walter - (1845 - 1915)
Creswick, Thomas - (1811 - 1869)
Cristall, Joshua - (1767 - 1847)
Cruikshank, George - (1792 - 1878)
Cruikshank, Isaac - (1756 - 1811)
Cuitt Jr., George - (1779 - 1854)
Dall, Nicholas Thomas - (1748 - 1776)
Damer, Anne Seymour - (1748 - 1828)
Dance II, George - (1741 - 1825)
Dandridge, Bartholomew - (1691 - 1755)
Daniell, Thomas - (1749 - 1840)
Daniell, William - (1769 - 1837)
Davie, Alan - (1920 - )
Davis, John Scarlett - (1804 - 1845)
Davis, William - (1812 - 1873)
Dawe, George - (1781 - 1829)
Dayes, Edward - (1763 - 1804)
De Morgan, Evelyn - (1855 - 1919)
De Wilde, Samuel - (1748 - 1832)
Deare, John - (1759 - 1798)
Delamotte, William Alfred - (1775 - 1863)
Derby, William - (1786 - 1847)
Deverell, Walter Howell - (1827 - 1854)
Devis, Anthony - (1729 - 1816)
Devis, Arthur - (1710 - 1762)
Diamond, Hugh Welch - (1809 - 1886)
Dicksee, Thomas Francis - (1819 - 1895)
Dighton, Richard - (1795 - 1880)
Dighton, Robert - (1752 - 1814)
Dobson, Frank - (1886 - 1963)
Dobson, William - (1611 - 1646)
Dobson, William Charles Thomas - (1817 - 1898)
Dodd, Daniel - (1763 - 1791)
Dodd, Robert - (1748 - 1816)
Doughty, William - (1757 - 1782)
Downman, John - (1750 - 1824)
Drummond, Samuel - (1765 - 1844)
Dupont, Gainsborough - (1754 - 1797)
Durham, Joseph - (1814 - 1877)
Dyce, William - (1806 - 1864)
Eardley, Joan - (1921 - 1963)
Earlom, Richard - (1743 - 1822)
Eastlake, Sir Charles Lock - (1793 - 1865)
Edridge, Henry - (1769 - 1821)
Egg, Augustus - (1816 - 1863)
Elmore, Alfred - (1815 - 1881)
Emerson, Peter Henry - (1856 - 1936)
Engleheart, George - (1750 - 1829)
Evans, Frederick Henry - (1853 - 1943)
Ewbank, John Wilson - (1799 - 1847)
Faber the Younger, John - (1695 - 1756)
Faed, John - (1819 - 1902)
Fagan, Robert - (1745 - 1816)
Farington, Joseph - (1747 - 1821)
Ferneley I, John - (1782 - 1860)
Field, Robert - (1769 - 1819)
Fielding, Anthony Vandyke Copley - (1787 - 1855)
Fitch, Walter - (1817 - 1892)
Fitzgerald, John Anster - (1819 - 1906)
Flaxman, John - (1755 - 1826)
Flint, Sir William Russell - (1880 - 1969)
Forster, Thomas - (1677 - 1713)
Foster, William - (1772 - 1812)
Frampton, Sir George - (1860 - 1928)
Fraser, Alexander - (1786 - 1865)
Frink, Dame Elisabeth - (1930 - 1993)
Frith, William Powell - (1819 - 1909)
Frost, Terry - (1915 - 2003)
Frost, William Edward - (1810 - 1877)
Frye, Thomas - (1710 - 1762)
Gardner, Daniel - (1750 - 1805)
Garrard, George - (1760 - 1826)
Gaywood, Richard - (1630 - 1680)
Geddes, Andrew - (1783 - 1844)
Geikie, Walter - (1795 - 1837)
Gertler, Mark - (1891 - 1939)
Gibbings, Robert - (1889 - 1958)
Gibson, John - (1790 - 1866)
Gilbert, Sir Alfred - (1854 - 1934)
Gilbert, Sir John - (1817 - 1897)
Gill, Eric - (1882 - 1940)
Gillray, James - (1757 - 1815)
Gilman, Harold - (1876 - 1919)
Gilpin, Rev. William - (1724 - 1804)
Gilpin, Sawrey - (1733 - 1807)
Glover, John - (1767 - 1849)
Godward, John William - (1861 - 1922)
Goldsworthy, Andy - (1956 - )
Gordon, Julia Emily - (1810 - 1896)
Gordon, Lady - (1775 - 1867)
Gordon, Sir John Watson - (1788 - 1864)
Gore, Spencer - (1878 - 1914)
Gormley, Antony - (1950 - )
Gower, George - (1540 - 1596)
Gowing, Sir Lawrence - (1918 - 1991)
Granges, David des - (1611 - 1675)
Grant, Duncan - (1885 - 1978)
Grant, Sir Francis - (1803 - 1878)
Green, Anthony - (1939 - )
Green, Valentine - (1739 - 1813)
Hall, Harry - (1813 - 1882)
Hamilton, Gavin - (1723 - 1798)
Hamilton, Gawen - (1698 - 1737)
Hamilton, Richard - (1922 - )
Hamilton, William - (1751 - 1801)
Harding, James Duffield - (1797 - 1863)
Harding, Sylvester - (1745 - 1809)
Harford, John Scandrett - (1785 - 1866)
Harlow, George Henry - (1787 - 1819)
Harris, John - (1686 - 1740)
Hart, Solomon Alexander - (1806 - 1881)
Harvey, William - (1798 - 1866)
Harwood, Francis - (1748 - 1783)
Hassell, John - (1767 - 1825)
Havell, William - (1782 - 1857)
Hawkins, Henry - ( - 1881)
Haydon, Benjamin Robert - (1786 - 1846)
Hayls, John - (1600 - 1679)
Hayman, Francis - (1708 - 1776)
Hayter, John - (1800 - 1891)
Hayter, Sir George - (1792 - 1871)
Hayter, Stanley William - (1901 - 1988)
Haytley, Edward - (1740 - 1762)
Head, Guy - (1761 - 1800)
Heaphy, Thomas - (1775 - 1835)
Hearne, Thomas - (1744 - 1817)
Heath, William - (1795 - 1840)
Henderson, Charles Cooper - (1803 - 1877)
Hennessy, William John - ( - )
Hepworth, Dame Barbara - (1903 - 1975)
Herbert, John Rogers - (1810 - 1890)
Herkomer, Sir Hubert von - (1849 - 1914)
Heron, Patrick - (1920 - 1999)
Herring, John Frederick - (1795 - 1865)
Herschel, Sir John - (1792 - 1871)
Highmore, Joseph - (1692 - 1780)
Hill, David Octavius - (1802 - 1870)
Hill, John William - (1812 - 1879)
Hilliard, Nicholas - (1547 - 1619)
Hills, Robert - (1769 - 1844)
Hilton, Roger - (1911 - 1975)
Hilton the Younger, William - (1786 - 1839)
Hirst, Damien - (1965 - )
Hitchens, Ivon - (1893 - 1979)
Hoare, William - (1707 - 1792)
Hodges, William - (1744 - 1797)
Hofland, Thomas Christopher - (1777 - 1843)
Holland, James - (1799 - 1870)
Holman, Francis - (1767 - 1790)
Hook, James Clarke - (1819 - 1907)
Hoppner, John - (1758 - 1810)
Horsley, John Callcott - (1817 - 1903)
Hoskins, John - ( - 1665)
Howitt, Samuel - (1756 - 1822)
Howlett, Robert - (1831 - 1858)
Hudson, Thomas - (1701 - 1779)
Huggins, William John - (1781 - 1845)
Hughes, Cornelius Jabez - (1819 - 1894)
Humphrey, Ozias - (1742 - 1810)
Hunt, William Henry - (1790 - 1864)
Hurlstone, Frederick Yeates - (1800 - 1869)
Ibbetson, Julius Caesar - (1759 - 1817)
Ince, Joseph Murray - (1806 - 1859)
Innes, James Dickson - (1887 - 1914)
Jackson, Gilbert - (1621 - 1642)
Jackson, John - (1778 - 1831)
Jarvis, John Wesley - (1780 - 1840)
Jefferys, James - (1751 - 1784)
Johnson, Cornelius - (1593 - 1661)
Jones, Allen - (1937 - )
Jones, David - (1895 - 1974)
Jones, Thomas - (1742 - 1803)
Jones, William - (1738 - 1749)
Kapoor, Anish - (1954 - )
Kennington, Eric - (1888 - 1960)
Kettle, Tilly - (1734 - 1786)
Kidd, Joseph Bartholomew - (1808 - 1889)
King, Phillip - (1934 - )
Knapton, George - (1698 - 1778)
Kneller, Sir Godfrey - (1646 - 1723)
Knight, Dame Laura - (1877 - 1970)
Knight, John Baverstock - (1785 - 1859)
Knight, John Prescott - (1803 - 1881)
Kossoff, Leon - (1926 - )
La Cave, Peter - ( - 1806)
La Thangue, Henry Herbert - (1859 - 1929)
Ladbrooke, Robert - (1769 - 1842)
Lamb, Henry - (1883 - 1960)
Lambert, George - (1700 - 1765)
Lamerie, Paul de - (1688 - 1751)
Lancaster, Rev. Richard Hume - (1773 - 1853)
Lance, George - (1802 - 1864)
Landseer, Charles - (1799 - 1879)
Lane, Samuel - (1780 - 1859)
Laporte, John - (1761 - 1839)
Larkin, William - (1580 - 1619)
Laroon the Younger, Marcellus - (1679 - 1772)
Laszlo, Philip Alexius de - (1869 - 1937)
Laurence, Samuel - (1812 - 1884)
le Jeune, Henry - (1819 - 1894)
Lear, Edward - (1818 - 1888)
Lee, Frederick Richard - (1799 - 1879)
Leech, John - (1817 - 1864)
Leitch, William Leighton - (1804 - 1883)
Lely, Sir Peter - (1618 - 1680)
Lens, Bernard - (1682 - 1740)
Leslie, Charles Robert - (1794 - 1859)
Lewis, John Frederick - (1805 - 1876)
Lewis, Professor Henry - (1819 - 1904)
Linton, William - (1791 - 1876)
Liverseege, Henry - (1803 - 1832)
Lizars, William Home - (1788 - 1859)
Locker, Edward Hawke - (1777 - 1849)
Lockey, Rowland - (1593 - 1616)
Loggan, David - (1635 - 1692)
Long, Amelia - (1772 - 1837)
Long, Richard - (1945 - )
Lonsdale, James - (1777 - 1839)
Lough, John Graham - (1798 - 1876)
Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques de - (1740 - 1812)
Lucas, David - (1802 - 1881)
MacColl, Dugald Sutherland - (1859 - 1948)
MacPherson, Robert - (1811 - 1872)
Marlow, William - (1740 - 1813)
Marshall, Benjamin - (1768 - 1835)
Marshall, Thomas Falcon - (1818 - 1878)
McFarlane, Duncan - (1818 - 1865)
Meyer, Jeremiah - (1735 - 1789)
Millar, James - (1740 - 1805)
Minton, John - (1917 - 1957)
Monamy, Peter - (1681 - 1749)
Monro, Dr. Thomas - (1759 - 1833)
Moore, Henry - (1898 - 1986)
More, Jacob - (1740 - 1793)
Morland, George - (1763 - 1804)
Morland, Henry Robert - (1716 - 1797)
Mortimer, John Hamilton - (1740 - 1779)
Morton, Andrew - (1802 - 1874)
Moses, Henry - (1782 - 1870)
Munn, Paul Sandby - (1773 - 1845)
Nash, Frederick - (1782 - 1856)
Nash, John - (1893 - 1977)
Nasmyth, Patrick - (1787 - 1831)
Nattes, John Claude - (1765 - 1822)
Neale, John Preston - (1780 - 1847)
Nebot, Balthazar - (1730 - 1765)
Nesfield, William Andrews - (1793 - 1881)
Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne - (1889 - 1946)
Newton, Gilbert Stuart - (1794 - 1835)
Nicholson, Sir William - (1872 - 1949)
Nicholson, Sir Francis - (1753 - 1844)
Northcote, James - (1736 - 1841)
Oliver, Isaac - (1560 - 1617)
Opie, John - (1761 - 1807)
Orpen, Sir William - (1878 - 1931)
Ottley, William Young - (1771 - 1836)
Owen, William - (1769 - 1825)
Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo - (1924 - )
Paris, Matthew - (1200 - 1259)
Pars, William - (1742 - 1782)
Pasmore, Victor - (1908 - 1998)
Paul, Joseph - (1804 - 1887)
Payne, William - (1760 - 1830)
Peake, Robert - (1551 - 1626)
Pearce, Edward - (1635 - 1695)
Pelham, Peter - (1695 - 1751)
Penrose, Sir Roland - (1900 - 1984)
Percy, Lady Susan Elizabeth - (1782 - 1847)
Pether, Abraham - (1756 - 1812)
Phillip, John - (1817 - 1867)
Phillips, Peter - (1939 - )
Pickersgill, Henry William - (1782 - 1875)
Place, Francis - (1647 - 1728)
Pocock, Isaac - (1782 - 1835)
Pocock, Nicholas - (1741 - 1821)
Pollard, James - (1792 - 1867)
Pollard, Robert - (1755 - 1838)
Porter, Sir Robert Ker - (1777 - 1942)
Prout, Samuel - (1783 - 1852)
Pryde, James - (1866 - 1941)
Pyne, William Henry - (1769 - 1843)
Rackham, Arthur - (1867 - 1939)
Ravilious, Eric - (1903 - 1942)
Redgrave, Richard - (1804 - 1862)
Rejlander, Oscar Gustave - (1813 - 1875)
Richards, Ceri - (1903 - 1971)
Richards, John Inigo - (1731 - 1810)
Richardson, Jonathan - (1665 - 1745)
Richardson, Thomas Miles - (1813 - 1890)
Richmond, George - (1809 - 1896)
Ricketts, Charles - (1886 - 1931)
Rigaud, John Francis - (1742 - 1810)
Riley, John - (1646 - 1691)
Rimmer, William - (1816 - 1879)
Roberts, David - (1796 - 1864)
Roberts, William - (1895 - 1980)
Robinson, Henry Peach - (1830 - 1901)
Robson, George Fennel - (1788 - 1833)
Rooker, Michael - (1746 - 1801)
Ross, Sir William Charles - (1794 - 1869)
Rothenstein, Sir William - (1872 - 1945)
Rowlandson, Thomas - (1756 - 1827)
Salmon, Robert - (1775 - 1845)
Sandby, Paul - (1730 - 1809)
Sandby, Thomas - (1721 - 1798)
Sartorius, John Nost - (1759 - 1828)
Scott, Samuel - (1702 - 1772)
Scott, William - (1913 - 1989)
Scott, William Bell - (1811 - 1890)
Selous, Henry Courtney - (1803 - 1890)
Severn, Joseph - (1793 - 1879)
Seymour, James - (1702 - 1752)
Shaw, Joshua - (1776 - 1860)
Shayer, William - (1787 - 1879)
Sherlock, William - (1780 - 1821)
Singleton, Henry - (1766 - 1839)
Skelton, Jonathan - (1735 - 1759)
Skippe, John - (1741 - 1811)
Slaughter, Stephen - (1697 - 1765)
Smirke, Robert - (1752 - 1845)
Smith, John ‘Warwick’ - (1749 - 1831)
Smith, Sir Matthew - (1879 - 1959)
Smith, John Thomas - (1766 - 1833)
Souch, John - (1594 - 1644)
Stadler, Joseph Constantine - (1780 - 1812)
Stanfield, Clarkson - (1793 - 1867)
Stark, James - (1794 - 1859)
Storr, Paul - (1771 - 1844)
Stothard, Thomas - (1755 - 1834)
Stubbs, George - (1724 - 1806)
Sully, Thomas - (1783 - 1872)
Talbot, William Henry Fox - (1800 - 1877)
Taverner, William - (1703 - 1772)
Thornhill, Sir James - (1675 - 1734)
Thornycroft, Sir Hamo - (1850 - 1925)
Tombleson, William - (1795 - 1835)
Tonks, Henry - (1862 - 1937)
Towne, Francis - (1739 - 1816)
Tresham, Henry - (1750 - 1814)
Tucker, William - (1935 - )
Turnbull, William - (1922 - )
Turner, Charles - (1773 - 1857)
Uwins, Thomas - (1782 - 1857)
Vanderbank, John - (1694 - 1739)
Varley, Cornelius - (1781 - 1873)
Varley, John - (1778 - 1842)
Vaughan, Keith - (1912 - 1917)
Vertue, George - (1683 - 1756)
Wadsworth, Edward - (1889 - 1949)
Wale, Samuel - (1721 - 1786)
Walker, Anthony - (1726 - 1765)
Walker, Dame Ethel - (1861 - 1951)
Wallis, Alfred - (1855 - 1942)
Walton, Henry - (1746 - 1813)
Ward, James - (1769 - 1859)
Webster, Thomas - (1800 - 1886)
Weekes, Henry - (1807 - 1877)
Westall, Richard - (1765 - 1836)
Wheatley, Francis - (1747 - 1801)
Whistler, Rex - (1905 - 1944)
White, Robert - (1645 - 1703)
Williams, Hugh William - (1773 - 1829)
Williams, William - (1727 - 1791)
Wilson, Benjamin - (1721 - 1788)
Wilson, Richard - (1713 - 1782)
Wilton, Joseph - (1722 - 1803)
Wint, Peter De - (1784 - 1849)
Wollaston, John - (1742 - 1775)
Wood, Christopher - (1901 - 1930)
Wootton, John - (1682 - 1764)
Worlidge, Thomas - (1700 - 1766)
Wren, Sir Christopher - (1632 - 1723)
Wright, John Michael - (1617 - 1694)
Wright of Derby, Joseph - (1734 - 1797)
Yeames, William Frederick - (1835 - 1918)

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