List of British painters

The following is a partial list of British painters (in chronological order):

Born 16th Century

*George Gower (c. 1540 – 1596)
*Nicolas Hilliard (1547–1619)
*Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) (born Flemish) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King

Born 17th Century

*William Dobson (1610–1646)
*John Michael Wright (1617–1694)
*Peter Lely (1618-1680) Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661)
*Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)
*John Wootton (1682–1764)
*John Vanderbank (1694–1739)
*William Hogarth (1697–1764)

Born 18th Century

*William Hoare (c. 1707 – 1792)
*Francis Hayman (1708–1776)
*John Shackleton (1714-1767) Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III
*Richard Wilson (1714–1782)
*Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
*George Stubbs (1724–1806)
*Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
*Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807)
*George Romney (1734–1802)
*Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)
*Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) "born in Switzerland"
*The Revd Matthew William Peters (1741–1814)
*Prince Hoare (1755–1834), painter and dramatist
* Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755-1802) of Jersey
*Thomas Stothard (1755-1834
*William Blake (1757–1827)
*Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803)
*Sir Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
*John Crome (1768–1821)
*Thomas Girtin (1775–1802)
*Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
*John Constable (1776–1837)
*John Varley (1778–1842)
*John Sell Cotman (1782–1842)
*Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King
*John Martin (1789–1854)
*Sir George Hayter (1792–1871) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen
*Francis Danby (1793-1861)
*Joseph Stannard (1797–1830)
*Henry Collen (1797-1879)

Born 19th Century

*Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
*Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
*Harry Hall (c.1814-1882)
*James Francis Danby (1816-1875)
*Thomas Danby (1817-1886)
*James Sant (1820-1916) Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen
*James Smetham (1821-1889)
*William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
*Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
*Edwin Long (1829–1890)
*John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
*Lord Frederick Leighton (1830–1896)
*Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
*Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898
*Benjamin Williams Leader RA (1833–1921)
*William Morris (1834–1896)
*Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) "born Dutch"
*John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
*Walter Goodman (1838–1912)
*John Clayton Adams (1840–1906)
*Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922)
*Walter Greaves (1846–1930)
*John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
*John Collier (1850–1934)
*Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914)
*Alfred de Breanski, Sr. (1852–1928)
*Edmund Blair Leighton (1853–1922)
*Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928)
*Alfred Robert Quinton (1853-1934)
*Arthur Melville (1858–1904)
*Charles W. Bartlett (1860-1940)
*Arthur Wardle (1864-1949)
*Charles Spencelayh (1865–1958)
*Roger Fry (1866–1934)
*Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898)
*Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
*Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970)
*Alfred Fontville de Breanski, Jr. (1877–1957)
*Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958)
*Augustus John (1878–1961)
*J. Hodgson Lobley (1879–1948)
*Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
*Wyndham Lewis (1884–1957)
*Duncan Grant (1885–1978)
*Stanley Royle (1888–1961)
*Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
*Ben Nicholson (1894–1982)

Unknown year, Born 19th Century

*William Wells Quartremain (18??-1908/12)

Born 20th Century

*John Piper (1903–1992)
*Cecil Kennedy (1905–1997)
*Hermione Hammond (1910–2005)
*John Bridgeman (1914–2004)
*Sylvia Molloy (1914–2008)
*Heinz Koppel (1919–1980) Born in Berlin, lived in Liverpool.
*John Christoforou (born 1921)
*Ken Kiff (1935–2001)
*David Hockney (born 1937)
*Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
*John Wonnacott (born 1940)
*Bruce McLean (born 1944)
*Edward Kelly (born 1946)
*Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (born 1950)
*Jo Self (born 1956)
*David Leapman (born 1959)
*Ken Maycock (born 1960)
*Stuart Pearson Wright (born 1975)
*Will Teather (born 1980)
*Ashley West (born 1953)

ee also

* English school of painting
* British art