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The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order).

English painters

Born 16th century

George Gower (c. 1540–1596)
Nicolas Hilliard (1547–1619)
Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1585–1627)
Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (1593–1661)
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) – born in Antwerp; Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
William Larkin (1580–1619)

Born 17th century

Emmanuel de Critz (1608–1665)
William Dobson (1610–1646)
John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661)
Oliver de Critz (1626–1651)
Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713)
Edward Bower (fl. 1635–1667)
Henry Cooke (1642–1700)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
John Riley, or Ryley (1646–1691)
Marmaduke Cradock (1660–1716)
Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)
Edward Byng (c. 1676–1753)
Peter Monamy (1681–1749)
John Wootton (1682–1764)
Isaac Whood (1689–1752)
Joseph Highmore (1692–1780)
John Vanderbank (1694–1739)
William Hogarth (1697–1764)

British painters

Born 18th century

Thomas Hudson (1701–1779)
Mary Hoare (1744–1820)
William Hoare (c. 1707–1792)
Francis Hayman (1708–1776)
Sir William Beechey (1753–1839)
John Shackleton (1714–1767) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III
Richard Wilson (1714–1782)
William Keable (1714–1774)
Charles Brooking (1723–1759)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
George Stubbs (1724–1806)
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807)
Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – born in Frankfurt
Peter Perez Burdett (c. 1734–1793)
George Romney (1734–1802)
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
Jeremiah Meyer (1735–1789) – born in Tübingen
Richard Wright (1735–c.1775)
Amos Green (1735–1807)^[1]
Mary Benwell (1739–after 1800)
John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779)
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – born in Zürich
Matthew William Peters (1742–1814)
Mary Moser (1744–1819)
William Hodges (1744–1797)
Henry Walton (1746–1813)
William Tate (1747–1806)
Richard Morton Paye (1751–1820)
Joseph Barney (1753–1832)
Charles Lewis (1753–1795) – still life painter
Maria Bell (1755–1825)
Prince Hoare the Younger (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist
Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755–1802) – of Jersey
Thomas Stothard (1755–1834)
Henry Bone (1755–1834)
William Blake (1757–1827)
George William Sartorius (1759–1828)
Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803)
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
George Augustus Wallis (1761–1847)
George Morland (1763–1804)
Samuel Drummond (1766–1844)
John Crome (1768–1821)
Thomas Barker (1769–1847)
James Ward (1769–1859)
William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831)
Edward Bird (1772–1819)
Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774–1837)
Thomas Girtin (1775–1802)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
John Constable (1776–1837)
John Jackson (1778–1831)
John Varley (1778–1842)
William John Huggins (1781–1845), marine painter
Richard Barrett Davis (1782–1854)
John Sell Cotman (1782–1842)
David Cox (1783–1859)
Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
Caroline Maria Applebee (c. 1785–1854)
Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)
William Mulready (1786–1863)
William Etty (1787–1849)
John Martin (1789–1854)
William Linton (1791–1876)
Sir George Hayter (1792–1871) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen
Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872)
Francis Danby (1793–1861)
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859)
Sir William Charles Ross (1794–1860)
Henry Collen (1797–1879)
Paul Delaroche (1797–1856)
Joseph Stannard (1797–1830)
Frederick Richard Lee (1798–1879)
Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861)
Samuel Atkins, marine painter

Born 19th century

Born 1875–1899

Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
Madge Oliver (1875–1924)
Sophie Atkinson (1876–1972)
Winifred Austen (1876–1964)
Isobelle Ann Dods-Withers (1876–1939)
Gwen John (1876–1939)
Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
Laura Knight (1877–1970)
Frank Montague Moore (1877–1967)
Walter Ernest Webster (1877–1959)
Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960)
Eliza Mary Burgess (1878–1961)
May Louise Greville Cooksey (1878–1943)
Augustus John (1878–1961)
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
Gertrude Harvey (1879–1966)
John Hodgson Lobley (1879–1954)^[6]
Anna Airy (1882–1964)
Gladys Kathleen Bell (1882–1965)
Teresa Copnall (1882–1972)
Helen Edwards (1882–1963)
Richard Howard Penton (1882–1960)
Eleanor Hughes (1882–1952)
Averil Burleigh (1883–1949)
Montague Birrell Black 1884-1964)
John Currie (1884–1914)
Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)
Louisa Puller (1884–1963)
Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976)
Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934)
Evelyn Abelson (1886–1967)
Mary Jewels (1886–1977)
James Ardern Grant (1887–1973)
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller (1887–1979)
Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950)
Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
Paul Cranfield Smyth (1888–1963)
Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960)
Nora Cundell (1889–1948)
Paul Nash (1889–1946)
Cedric Morris (1889–1982)
Marlow Moss (1889-1958)
Sir Henry Rushbury (1889–1968)
Ruth Simpson (1889–1964)
David Bomberg (1890-1957)
Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925)
Leon Underwood (1890–1975)
Grace English (1891–1956)
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
Dora Carrington (1893–1932)
Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968)
Cowan Dobson (1894–1980)
Kaff Gerrard (1894–1970)
Meredith Frampton (1894–1984)
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)
Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973)
[[Henry George Hoyland)) (1895-1947)
Harry Bateman (1896–1976)
George Bissill (1896–1973)
Leila Faithfull (1896–1994)
Billie Waters (1896–1979)
Dorothy Coke (1897–1979)
Hans Feibusch (1898–1998) – born in Frankfurt, resided in England 1934–1998
Winifred Knights (1899–1947)
Rose Henriques (1889–1972)
Francis Helps (1890–1972)

Unknown year, born 19th century

Edward Pritchett (fl. 1828–1864)
Florence Claxton (fl. 1840–1879)
Sara Macgregor (d. 1919)

Born 20th century

Born 1900–1949

George Lambourn (1900–1977)
Elsie Dalton Hewland (1901–1979)
John Mansbridge (1901–1981)
Marjorie May Bacon (1902–1988)
Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958)
Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951)
John Melville (1902–1986)
Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998)
John Piper (1903–1992)
Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
Ceri Richards (1903–1971)
Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)
Mary Adshead (1904–1995)
Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959)
Helen Binyon (1904–1979)
George Fisher Gilmour (1904–1984)
J. Edward Smith (1905–1986)^[7]
Griselda Allan (1905–1987)
Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997)
Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999)
Patrick Hall (1906–1992)
Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)
Clifford Ellis (1907–1985)
Frank Egginton (1908–1990)
Isobel Heath (1908–1989)
Thomas Carr (1909–1999)
Mildred Eldridge (1909–1991)
Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)
Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956)
Isabel Alexander (1910–1996)
John Bensusan-Butt (1911–1997)
John Kingsley Cook (1911–1994)
Anthony Devas (1911–1958)
Gwen Barnard (1912–1988)
Fay Pomerance (1912–2001)
Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986)
Leonard Appelbee (1914–2000)
John Bridgeman (1914–2004)
Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008)
Doris Blair (born 1915)
Terry Frost (1915–2003)
William Gear (1915–1997)
Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990)
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011)
Michael Kidner (1917–2009)
Mary Audsley (1919–2008)
Eden Box (1919–1988)
Francis Davison (1919–1984)
Colin Hayes (1919–2003)
Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) – born in Berlin; lived in Liverpool
Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
John Christoforou (1921–2014)
John Craxton (1922–2009)
Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)
Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010)
Paul Bird (1923–1993)
Peter Folkes (1923–2019)
Martin Froy (1926–2017)
Ann Thetis Blacker (1927–2006)
Peter Brook (1927–2009)
John Plumb (1927–2008)
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland
John Copnall (1928–2007)
Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995)
Adrian Morris (1929–2004)
Gillian Ayres (1930–2018)
Mardi Barrie (1930–2004)
Robyn Denny (1930–2014)
Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959) – born in Germany
Martin Bradley (1931–2023)
Ken Messer (1931–2018)
Bridget Riley (born 1931)
Peter Blake (born 1932)
Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017)
Moira Huntly (born 1932)
Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010)
Marc Vaux (born 1932)
Alexander Goudie (1933–2004)
John Hoyland (1934–2011)
Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)
Ivor Davies (born 1935)
Ken Kiff (1935–2001)
Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
Timothy Behrens (1937–2017)
David Hockney (born 1937)
Tess Jaray (born 1937)
Bryan Organ (born 1935)
Margot Perryman (born 1938)
William Tillyer (born 1938)
Mario Dubsky (1939–1985)
John Wonnacott (born 1940)
Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)
Sheila Mullen (born 1942)
Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944)
Claire Dalby (born 1944)
Bruce McLean (born 1944)
Jonathon Coudrille (born 1945)
P. J. Crook (born 1945)
Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
David Imms (born 1945)
Sean Scully (born 1945) – born in Dublin; studied in London and Newcastle; lives and works abroad.
Timothy Hyman (born 1946)
Tony Foster (born 1946)
Edward Kelly (born 1946)
John Virtue (born 1947)
Howard J. Morgan (1949–2020)
Terance James Bond (1946–2023)

Born 1950–1999

Cherryl Fountain (born 1950)
Roy Petley (born 1951)
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952-2012)
Brian Clarke (born 1953)
Jeremy Henderson (born 1952)
Deirdre Hyde (born 1953)
Charlotte Verity (born 1954)
Vivien Blackett (born 1955)
Peter Edwards (born 1955)
Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1955)
Jo Self (born 1956)
Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
John O'Carroll (born 1958)
Peter Doig (born 1959)
Claudette Johnson (born 1959)
David Leapman (born 1959)
Ian Davenport (born 1960)
Nick Fudge (born 1960)
Keith Piper (born 1960)
Sonia Boyce (born 1962)
Gary Hume (born 1962)
Tod Hanson (born 1963)
Guy Denning (born 1965)
Damien Hirst (born 1965)
George Shaw (born 1966)
Chris Ofili (born 1968)
Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
Justin Mortimer (born 1970)
Banksy (born c. 1974)
Tom Palin (born 1974)
Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975)
Idris Khan (born 1978)
Kate Groobey (born 1979)
David Wightman (born 1980)
Seb Toussaint (born 1988)

Unknown year, born 20th century

External links

References

^ William Upcott, English Topography; Dodd, MS. History of English Engravers, British Library Add MS 33401
^ George Armfield paintings, BBC Your Paintings. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
^ Joy, Thomas Musgrave, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
^ "For He had Great Possessions". Ben Uri: 100 Years in London.
^ Westmorland Gazette: 'The Amazon Chaplaincy', November 6, 1926
^ "John Hodgson Lobley (1878–1954)". Brown University Library, Center for Digital Initiatives.
^ Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1947 catalogue, pp. 28, 29; Royal Society of Portrait Painters 1948 catalogue p. 28; The Royal Society of Marine Artists 1975 (1 painting), 1976 (2 paintings), and 1977 (2 paintings); 20th Century British Marine Painting, by Denys Brook-Hart, 1981, ISBN 0 902028 90 1, Plate 167, p. 258, "Honfleur".

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