List of British artists

Born before 1700

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543) – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1520 – c. 1590) – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century

George Gower (1540–1596) – English portrait painter

Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) – English goldsmith, limner, portrait miniature painter

Rowland Lockey (c. 1565 – 1616) – English goldsmith, portrait miniaturist, painter

Isaac Oliver (c. 1565 – 1617) – French-born English portrait miniature painter

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) – Flemish Baroque painter, watercolourist and etcher who became court painter in England

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) – Czech etcher

Samuel Cooper (c. 1608 – 1672) – English miniature painter

John Michael Wright (1617–1694) – British baroque portrait painter

Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England

Francis Barlow (1626?–1704) – English painter, etcher, and illustrator

David Loggan (1635–1692) – British baroque painter

Godfrey Kneller (1646/9–1723) – portrait painter in England

Francis Place (1647–1728)

James Thornhill (1675–1734) – English painter of historical subjects

Jonathan Richardson (1665–1745) – English portrait painter

Peter Monamy (1681–1749) – English marine painter

John Wootton (1682–1764) – English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes

Pieter Andreas Rysbrack (1685 or 1690-1748) – Flemish painter working in London

John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770) – Flemish sculptor working in London

John Vanderbank (1694–1739) – English portrait painter and book illustrator

William Hogarth (1697–1764) – English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist

Born 1700–1799

Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle (1778–1865) – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects.

Louis-François Roubiliac (1702/5–1762) – French sculptor whose works reside in Westminster Abbey

Samuel Scott (1702–1770)

James Seymour (c. 1702 – 1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art

William Hoare (1707?–1792) – English painter especially of pastels

Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy

Arthur Devis (c. 1712 – 1787) – English portrait painter, especially of conversation pieces and other small portraits

Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) – Scottish portrait painter

Richard Wilson (1713–1782) – Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy

Alexander Cozens (1717?–1786) – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting

Charles Brooking (1723–1759)

Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – English painter specialising in portraits

George Stubbs (1724–1806) – British painter especially of horses

Francis Cotes (1726–1770) – English painter

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) – English portrait and landscape painter

Paul Sandby (1730–1809) – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours

Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) – English animal painter

Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England

George Romney (1734–1802) – English portrait painter

Joseph Wright (1734–1797) – English landscape and portrait painter

Alexander Runciman (1736–1785) – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects

Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823) – sculptor from London

Francis Towne (1739/40–1816) – English watercolour painter

Angelica Kauffman (1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter

Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) – English artist of French origin

William Marlow (1740–1813) – English landscape and marine artist

John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings

Matthew William Peters (1742–1814)

James Barry (1741–1806) – Irish painter

Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin

Richard Cosway (1742–1821) – English portrait painter, miniaturist

Ozias Humphry (1742–1810) – English painter of portrait miniatures

John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes

Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist

Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver

Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist

Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter

Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) – English artist and caricaturist

William Blake (1757–1827) – English poet, painter, and printmaker

Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840) – Scottish portrait and landscape painter

Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) – English portrait painter

Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – English painter, mostly of portraits

John Charles Felix Rossi (1762–1839) – sculptor

Arthur William Devis (1762–1822) – English painter of history paintings and portraits

George Morland (1763–1804) – English painter of animals and rustic scenes

Joshua Cristall (1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter

John Crome (1768–1821) – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters

James Ward (1769–1859) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver

Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) – English portrait and subject painter

Henry James Richter (1772–1857) – engraver and painter

Anne Frances Byrne (1775–1837) – painter of flowers and still lifes

Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) – English painter, watercolourist, and etcher

J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) – English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker

John Constable (1776–1837) – English Romantic painter

John Higton (1776–1827) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver

Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820) – painter of religious subjects

John Masey Wright (1777–1866) – watercolour painter

John Varley (1778–1842) – English watercolour painter and astrologer

Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844) – English landscape painter

Samuel Colman (1780–1845)

James Holworthy (1781–1841) – watercolour painter

John Sell Cotman (1782–1842) – artist of the Norwich school, mainly in watercolour

Frederick Nash (painter) (1782–1856) – architectural and landscape painter

David Cox (1783–1859) – English landscape painter

Samuel Prout (1783–1852) – English watercolour painter

Peter De Wint (1784–1849) – English landscape painter

John Romney (1785–1863) – mainly printmaking and watercolour

David Wilkie (1785–1841) – Scottish painter

William Mulready (1786–1863) – Irish genre painter living in London

Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) – English historical painter and writer

Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831) – Scottish landscape painter

John Martin (1789–1854) – English painter

William Henry Hunt (1790–1864) – English watercolor painter

George Hayter (1792–1871) English painter, specialising in portraits

John Linnell (1792–1882) – English landscape painter

Francis Danby (1793–1861) – Irish painter

Edward Calvert (1799–1883) – English printmaker and painter

James Holland (1799–1870) – landscape painter and illustrator

Eglington Margaret Pearson (died 1823) – stained glass painter

Born 1800–1899

Arthur Elliot – British watercolourist

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) – English Romantic landscape painter

Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873) – English painter and sculptor especially of animals, particularly horses, dogs and stags

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874)

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals

John Steell (1804–1891) – Scottish sculptor

John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) – Orientalist English painter

Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker

Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876) – English painter

William Dyce (1806–1864) – Scottish artist

James John Hill (1811–1882) – English painter

William James Blacklock (1816–1858) – English landscape artist, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders

Edward Armitage (1817–1896) – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects

Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes

Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and botanical artist

George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) – English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement

Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer

William Powell Frith (1819–1909) – English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives

Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893) – English painter of moral and historical subjects

Frederick Goodall (snr) (1822-1904) - English artist specialising in oriental scenes

Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894) – Engl-ish painter and watercolourist

Abraham Solomon (1824–1862)

Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) – English sculptor and poet

William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) – British painter, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator

James Docharty (1829–1878) – Scottish landscape painter

Edwin Long (1829–1890) – English orientalist painter, depicting Biblical and Middle Eastern subjects

John Everett Millais (1829–1896) – English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896) – English painter

Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) – English painter and sculptor especially of historical, biblical and classical subject matter

Marianne North (1830–1890) – English naturalist and flower painter

John William Bailey (1831–1914) – British miniature painter

Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923) – English painter

Louise Rayner (1832–1924) – English watercolourist

Arthur Hughes (1832–1915) – English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910) – Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects

Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) – English artist and designer

William Morris (1834–1896) – English artist, writer, and socialist

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) – American-born, British-based painter and etcher

Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906) – English painter of churches and cathedrals

William McTaggart (1835–1910) – Scottish landscape painter

Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875) – British painter (oil and watercolours) and illustrator

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) – English painter especially of landscapes

Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) – British classical-subject painter

James Tissot (1836–1902) – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects

Simeon Solomon (1840–1905) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter

Frederick Walker (1840–1875) – English Social Realist painter and illustrator in watercolours and oils

Albert Moore (1841–1893) – English painter especially of langorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world

Alexander Rossi (1841–1916) – British artist specializing in genre works

Walter Crane (1845–1915) – English artist and book illustrator

Frank Holl (1845–1888) – English painter

Walter Greaves (1846–1930) – English painter

James Campbell Noble (1846–1913) – Scottish landscape, seascape and portrait painter

Ralph Hedley (1848–1913) – English realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator

John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) – English Pre-Raphaelite painter especially of female characters from mythology and literature

John Collier (1850–1934) – British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style

John Charles Dollman (1851–1934) – English narrative, landscape and animal painter

Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914) – English painter in a Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism style

Edmund Leighton (1853–1922) – English painter in Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic styles

Frank Dicksee (1853–1928) – English Victorian painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes

Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) – English painter

Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) – Cornish fisherman and artist

David Winder (1855–1933) – Bolton, Lancashire-born British artist; oil and watercolour

James Pittendreigh MacGillivray (1856–1938) – Scottish sculptor

Alfred William Rich (1856–1921) – English landscape artist

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) – American portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolorist

Richard Caton Woodville (1856–1927) – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes

Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947) – British artist, founder of the Newlyn School

Walter Sickert (1860–1942) – English Impressionist painter

Solomon Joseph Solomon (1860–1927) – English painter of mythological scenes and portraits

Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942) – English artist

Thomas Walshaw (1862 – after 1901) – English watercolourist

Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864–1950)

Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) – English painter

William Edwin Pimm (1864–1952) – British artist, oil and watercolours

Arthur Lowe (painter) (1865–1940) – English landscape artist from Kinoulton, Nottingham

Robert Bevan (1865–1925)

H. Gustave Hiller (1865–1946) – mainly of stained glass

Roger Fry (1866–1934) – English artist and art critic

Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer

Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954) – English painter

Ursula Wood (1868–1925) – English painter

Lamorna Birch (1869–1955) – English painter

Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958) – English equine artist

William Ratcliffe (1870–1955)

Phelan Gibb (1870–1948) - British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910-1914

Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871–1958) – Scottish artist

Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) – English artist and illustrator

William Nicholson (1872–1949) – English painter, illustrator and author of children's books

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) – English illustrator and author especially of erotic illustrations

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945) – English artist and illustrator

John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961) – Scottish artist, one of the Scottish Colourists school of painting

Frank O. Salisbury (1874–1962) – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works

Dorothea Sharp (1874–1955) – British landscape painter

Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970) – English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits, and industrial paintings

Harold Gilman (1876–1919) – English artist and founder-member of the Camden Town Group

Gwen John (1876–1939) – Welsh artist

Horace Tuck (1876–1951) – Norfolk artist of oil and watercolour landscapes

Florence Mabel Hollams (1877–1963) – painter of dogs and horses

Laura Knight (1877–1970) – British artist

Donald Maxwell (1877–1936) – English illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours

Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958) – English artist

Charles Ginner (1878–1952) – French- born painter, member of Camden Town Group

Spencer Gore (1878–1914) – British painter who was first president of the Camden Town Group

Augustus John (1878–1961) – Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher

Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (1878 –1959) – English artist, particularly renowned for equine subject matter

William Reid Dick (1879–1961) – Scottish sculptor

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) – English painter and interior designer

Matthew Smith (1879–1959) – English painter

Malcolm Drummond (1880–1945) – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors

Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture

Harry Morley (1881–1943) – English painter

Eric Gill (1882–1940) – British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker

Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) – English painter and author

Henry Lamb (1883–1960) – Australian-born British painter

Arthur Watts (1883–1935) – illustrator

Duncan Grant (1885–1978) – Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group

Gwen Raverat (1885–1957) – English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers

Randolph Schwabe (1885–1948) – English artist

Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (1886–1911) – English painter

Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) – English artist and occultist

L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) – English artist

Elizabeth Polunin (1887–1950) – English artist and theatre designer

Sydney Carline (1888–1929) – English artist

Margaret Lindsay Williams (1888–1960) – Welsh portrait painter

Paul Nash (1889–1946) – English war artist

Christopher Nevinson (1889–1946) – English painter and vorticist

Robert Gibbings (1889–1958) – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural history

Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949) – English artist

David Bomberg (1890–1957) – English painter and one of the Whitechapel Boys

Charles Cundall (1890–1971) – English painter

Joseph Gray (1890–1963) – English painter

Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) – Welsh artist and writer

Edmond Xavier Kapp (1890–1978) – English artist

Iain Macnab (1890–1967)

Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890–1925) – English painter

Leon Underwood (1890–1975) – British sculptor, painter, and engraver

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915) – French sculptor and vorticist

Mark Gertler (1891–1939) – British portrait and landscape painter

Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) – English painter

Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891–1966) – English portrait painter

Colin Gill (1892–1940) – English painter

Gilbert Spencer (1892–1978)

Harold Sandys Williamson (1892–1978)

John Armstrong (1893–1973)

John Nash (1893–1977) – English painter, illustrator, and engraver

Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) – English painter

Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968) – English painter and etcher

Henry Matthew Talintyre (1893–1962) – British artist

Flora Twort (1893–1985) – English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels

Henry Carr (1894–1970)

Meredith Frampton (1894–1984) – British artist

Alethea Garstin (1894–1978) – Cornish painter

Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) – English abstract painter

Dora Clarke (1895–1989) – English sculptor

David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet

William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist

Raymond Coxon (1896–1997)

John Buckland Wright (1897–1954)

Henry Moore (1898–1986) – English artist and sculptor

Rodney Joseph Burn (1899–1984) – English artist

Winifred Knights (1899–1947) – English painter

Born 1900–1949

Roland Penrose (1900–1984)

Harold Tamblyn-Watts (1900–1999)

Gertrude Hermes (1901–1983)

Ancell Stronach (1901–1981) – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art

Christopher Wood (1901–1930)

Simon Elwes (1902–1975)

Robin Guthrie (1902–1971)

Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)

Ray Howard-Jones (1903–1996)

Charles Mahoney (1903–1968)

John Piper (1903–1992)

Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)

Ceri Richards (1903–1971)

Albert Houthuesen (1903–1979)

Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)

Mary Adshead (1904–1995)

Stephen Bone (1904–1958)

Evan Charlton (1904–1984)

Reg Bunn (1905–1971)

Edward Burra (1905–1976)

Kathleen Guthrie (1905–1981)

Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)

Morris Kestelman (1905–1998)

Kenneth Martin (1905–1984)

Robert Medley (1905–1994)

Vernon Ward (1905–1985)

Rex Whistler (1905–1944)

Kathleen Allen (1906–1983)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960)

Joan Hassall (1906–1988)

Edgar Hubert (1906–1985)

Kenneth Steel (1906–1970)

Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998)

Phyllis Ginger (1907–2005)

Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye (1907–2005)

Claude Rogers (1907–1979)

William Coldstream (1908–1987)

Norman Hepple (1908–1994)

Victor Pasmore (1908–1998)

Stella Schmolle (1908–1975)

Carel Weight (1908–1997)

Francis Bacon (1909–1992) – born in Ireland

Thomas Carr (1909–1999)

Leonard Daniels (1909–1998)

Paul Lucien Dessau (1909–1999)

Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976)

Gwynneth Holt (1909–1995) – ivory sculptor

Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)

Eric Taylor (1909–1999)

Geoffrey Tibble (1909–1952)

Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)

Rodrigo Moynihan (1910–1990)

Rosemary Allan (1911–2008)

Anthony Devas (1911–1958)

Roger Hilton (1911–1975)

Nicolette Macnamara (1911–1987)

Andrew Freeth (1912–1986)

Erlund Hudson (1912–2011)

Keith Vaughan (1912–1977)

Reg Butler (1913–1981)

Joan Hutt (1913–1985)

Leonard Rosoman (1913–2012)

Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003)

Harold Hitchcock (1914–2009)

Frances Macdonald (1914–2002)

Charles Mozley (1914–1991)

Frank Roper (1914–2000) – sculptor

Dennis Flanders (1915–1994)

Wendy F. Walsh (1915–2014) – Illustrator and botanical artist

Norman Whitehead (1915–1983)

John Bridgeman (1916–2004)

James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)

John Kashdan (1917–2001)

Anthony Robert Klitz (1917–2000)

John Minton (1917–1957)

Mona Moore (1917–2000)

John Kyffin Williams (1918–2006)

Peter Lanyon (1918–1964)

Richard Vicary (1918–2006) – printmaker

Norman Cornish (1919–2014)

Cliff Holden (born 1919)

Michael Ford (1920–2005)

Patrick Heron (1920–1999)

Françoise Taylor (1920–2007) – born in Belgium, British by marriage

Derek Chittock (1922–1986)

Lucian Freud (1922–2011)

Richard Hamilton (1922–2011)

Eduardo Paolozzi (1922–2005)

Miles Richmond (1922–2008)

William McLaren (1923–1987)

Anthony Caro (born 1924)

Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)

Erich von Götha de la Rosière (born 1924)

Keith Sutton (1924–1991)

Beryl Cook (1926–2008)

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)

Michael Edmonds (1926–2014)

Leon Kossoff (born 1926)

Edna Mann (1926–1985)

Tom McGuinness (1926–2006)

Patrick Swift (1927–1983) – born in Ireland

Michael Andrews (1928–1995)

John Copnall (1928–2007)

Dora Holzhandler (born 1928) – born in Paris to Polish parents but lived in London

Dorothy Mead (1928–1975)

Joe Tilson (born 1928)

Victor Willing (1928–1988)

Zelda Nolte (1929–2003)

Robyn Denny (1930–2014)

David Gentleman (born 1930)

Donald Pass (1930–2010)

John Ambrose (born 1931)

Frank Auerbach (born 1931)

Dennis Creffield (born 1931)

Malcolm Morley (born 1931) – first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984

Bridget Riley (born 1931)

Peter Blake (born 1932)

Howard Hodgkin (born 1932)

Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) – Royal painter

Ken Howard (born 1932)

R. B. Kitaj (1932–2007) – born in US

Euan Uglow (1932–2000)

Marc Vaux (born 1932)

Ian Weatherhead (born 1932)

Richard Allen (1933–1999)

Vincent Haddelsey (1934–2010)

John Hoyland (1934–2011)

Jeremy Moon (1934–1973)

Rose Wylie (born 1934) – painter

Paula Rego (born 1935) – born in Portugal

Frank Bowling (born 1936)

Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)

David Hall (born 1937)

David Hockney (born 1937)

Allen Jones (born 1937)

Tom Phillips (born 1937)

Terry Atkinson (born 1939)

Anthony Green (born 1939)

Patrick Hughes (born 1939)

John Walker (born 1939) – painter and printmaker

John Byrne (born 1940)

Peter Liddle (born 1940)

Barry Flanagan (1941–2009)

Yvonne Hutton (1941–1991)

Geoffrey Key (born 1941)

Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002)

Ruth Rix (born 1942)

Alan Aldridge (born 1943)

Grange Calveley (born 1943)

Errol Lloyd (born 1943)

Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)

Valerie Wiffen (born 1943)

Zacron (1943–2012) – multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster

Bruce McLean (born 1944)

David Paskett (born 1944)

Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)

Maggi Hambling (born 1945)

Ed Herring (1945-2003)

David Imms (born 1945)

Richard Long (born 1945)

Lewis Blake (born 1946)

Paul Dash (born 1946)

Rose Garrard (born 1946)

Winston Branch (born 1947)

Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007) – sculptor

Richard Cook (born 1947)

Tam Joseph (born 1947)

Linda Sutton (born 1947)

Godfrey Blow (born 1948)

Richard Deacon (born 1949) – 1987 Turner Prize Winner

Paul Wager (born 1949) painter and sculptor

Born 1950 and later

Pete Gilbert (born 1950) – graphic designer and painter

Antony Gormley (born 1950)

Edward Allington (born 1951)

Paul Kenny (born 1951)

Humphrey Ocean (born 1951)

Stephen Pusey (born 1952)

Alan Rankle (born 1952) – landscape painter

Chris Gollon (born 1953)

Ingrid Pollard (born 1953)

Melinda Camber Porter (1953–2008) – painter, writer, filmmaker, journalist for The Times; lived in London, Paris, and New York

Charles Thomson (born 1953)

Lubaina Himid (born 1954)

Aidan Hughes (born 1954)

Anish Kapoor (born 1954)

David Tress (born 1955)

Denzil Forrester (born 1956)

Errol Francis (born 1956)

James Dodds (born 1957)

Jeremy Gardiner (born 1957)

Fiona Graham-Mackay (born 1957) – portraits of the royal family

Thomas Hodges (born 1957) – photographic and mixed media artist

Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)

Willard Wigan (born 1957)

Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958)

Keith Coventry (born 1958)

Lennie Lee (born 1958) – born in South Africa

Jake Tilson (born 1958)

Andy Dog Johnson (born 1959)

Claudette Johnson (born 1959)

Hew Locke (born 1959) – born in Scotland

Bruce Munro (born 1959)

Keith Salmon (born 1959) – Scottish landscape painter born in England

Suzzan Blac (born 1960)

Eddie Chambers (born 1960)

John Foulger (1960–2006)

Grayson Perry (born 1960)

Keith Piper (born 1960)

Sonia Boyce (born 1962)

Marion Kalmus (born 1962)

Sarah Lucas (born 1962)

Nasser Azam (born 1963)

Tracey Emin (born 1963)

Janette Parris (born 1963)

Dean Stalham (born c. 1963)

Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) – 1993 Turner Prize winner

Frances Aviva Blane (born 1964)

Chris Hipkiss (born 1964)

Tom Cartmill (born 1965)

Marion Coutts (born 1965)

Guy Denning (born 1965)

Damien Hirst (born 1965)

Jonathan Huxley (born 1965)

Robert Priseman (born 1965)

Fiona Banner (born 1966)

Fiona Crisp (born 1966) – photographer

Ian Davenport (born 1966)

Juno Doran (born 1966)

Christian Furr (born 1966)

Igor Kufayev (born 1966)

Elizabeth Price (born 1966) – 2012 Turner Prize winner

Peter Brown (born 1967)

Andy Lomas (born 1967)

Paul Rooney (born 1967)

Chris Ofili (born 1968)

Suling Wang (born 1968)

Brita Granström (born 1969)

Chantal Joffe (born 1969)

Jonathan Myles-Lea (born 1969) – painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes

Michael Gustavius Payne (born 1969)

Alexander Talbot Rice (born 1969) – society portrait painter

Justin Mortimer (born 1970)

Nina Murdoch (born 1970) – tempera painter

Mandy Wilkinson (born 1970)

Jonathan Kearney (born 1971)

Anna Barriball (born 1972) – mixed media artist

Dee Ferris (born 1973)

Peter Liversidge (born 1973)

Banksy (born 1974)

Tom Palin (born 1974)

Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974) – savant artist

Graham Nicholls (born 1975)

Lucy Skaer (born 1975)

Adelaide Damoah (born c. 1977)

Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)

Claire Hooper (born 1978)

Nick Gentry (born 1980)

Conor Harrington (born 1980)

Edward Kluz (born 1980)

Polly Morgan (born 1980)

Stuart Semple (born 1980)

Molly Garnier (born 1981)

Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983)

Anna King (born 1984)

Anthony Smith (born 1984) – bronze sculptor

Sarah Maple (born 1985) – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner

Johan Andersson (born 1986)

Lizz Brady (born 1988) – installation, visual artist

Nathan Wyburn (born 1989) – food artist

Pogus Caesar – born in St Kitts (date unknown)