List of Scottish artists

Born before 1700

John Alexander (died 1733), painter and engraver

Arnold Bronckhorst (fl. 1565–1583), Dutch painter, the first King's Painter of Scotland

William Gouw Ferguson (1632/3 – c. 1689), still life painter, active in France and Italy

Gawen Hamilton (1698–1737), painter largely working in London

George Heriot (1563–1624), Scottish goldsmith and jeweler

George Jamesone (or Jameson) (c. 1587 – 1644), Scotland's first eminent portrait painter

David Paton, active 1660–1700, painter of miniatures

François Quesnel (c. 1543 – 1619), Scotland-born French painter

John Michael Wright (1617–1694), portrait painter in the Baroque style

Born 1700–1799

Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724 – 1772), noted portraitist in the United States

David Allan (1744–1796), painter of historical subjects

Andrew Bell (1726–1809), engraver and printer, co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica

John Zephaniah Bell (1794–1883), painter

John Brown (1752–1787), artist

Thomas Campbell (1790–1858), sculptor

Robert Edmonstone (1794–1834), painter

Robert Freebairn (1765–1808), landscape painter

Andrew Geddes (1783–1844), portrait painter and etcher

John Watson Gordon (1788–1864), painter

Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), Scottish neoclassical history painter

David Ramsay Hay (1798-1866), artist, interior decorator and colour theorist

John Kay (1742–1826), caricaturist and engraver

William Home Lizars (1788–1859), painter and engraver

William Miller (1796–1882), engraver

Jacob More (1740–1793), landscape painter

William Mossman, 1793–1851, sculptor

Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), landscape painter

Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander

Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), portrait painter

Allan Ramsay (1713–1784), painter

David Roberts (1796–1864), painter and lithographer

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

John Runciman (1744–1768/9), painter known for Biblical and literary scenes, brother of Alexander

Archibald Skirving (1749–1819), portrait painter

Reverend John Thomson (1778–1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk

George Watson (1767–1837), painter

David Wilkie (1785–1841), painter

Born 1800–1899

John Brown Abercromby (1843–1929), painter, styles and genres varying from traditional portraiture to avant-garde modernist

Robert Adamson (1821–1848), photographer

John Macdonald Aiken (1880–1961), watercolour and oil painter

Andrew Allan (1863–1942), lithographic artist

Hazel Armour (1894-1985), sculptor and medalist

George Bain (1881–1968), art teacher whose writing revived interest in Celtic and Insular art

James Ballantine (1806–1877), artist and author

Jemima Blackburn (1823–1909), painter and illustrator

Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher

Phyllis Bone (1894–1972), sculptor

William Bonnar (1800–1863), painter of portraits, and history and genre paintings

William Brodie (1815–1881), sculptor

Robert Brough (1872–1905), painter

John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), Scottish landscape painter

Robert Bryden (1865–1939), artist, sculptor and engraver

Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), sculptor

James Cadenhead (1858–1927), painter

Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor, known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall

Sir David Young Cameron (1865–1945), painter and etcher

Mary Cameron (1865–1921), portrait painter

George Paul Chalmers (1833–1878), painter

James Cowie (1886–1956), painter

Hugh Adam Crawford (1898–1982), painter

William Crozier (1893–1930), landscape painter

Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822–1891), painter

Thomas Millie Dow (1848–1919), painter, member of the Glasgow Boys school

Jack M. Ducker (1890-unknown), painter who specialized in highland landscapes

Ian Fairweather (1891–1974), Scottish/Australian painter

Christian Jane Fergusson (1876–1957), Dumfries and Galloway landscape and still life painter

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

Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), sculptor specialising in war memorials and sculpture on tombs

Robert Gavin (1827–1883), painter

William Geissler (1894–1963), artist known for his watercolours of the natural world

James William Giles (1801–1870), Scottish landscape painter

Sir William George Gillies (1898–1973), landscape and still life painter

Constance Frederica "Eka" Gordon-Cumming (1837–1924), travel writer and painter

Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1931), Glasgow School artist

Herbert James Gunn (1893-1964), portrait painter

James Guthrie (1859–1930), painter

Peter Alexander Hay (1866–1952)

John Henderson (1860–1924), painter and Director of Glasgow School of Art

Joseph Henderson (1832–1908), Scottish landscape painter

George Henry (1858–1943), painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School

Joseph Morris Henderson (1863–1936), Scottish landscape painter

David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), painter and photography pioneer at Hill & Adamson

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933), painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children

Anna Hotchkis (1885–1985), painter

John Kelso Hunter (1802–1873), self-taught portrait painter and author of two books

George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931), self-taught painter and one of the four Scottish Colourists

Beatrice Huntington (1889–1988), artist, sculptor and musician

Alexander Johnston (1815–1891), painter, known for genre and history paintings

Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980), painter of landscapes and portraits, particularly of children

Jessie M King (1875–1949), illustrator (mostly of children's books), designer of jewelry and fabric

Robert Scott Lauder (1803–1869), artist and portrait painter

Andrew Law (1873–1967), artist and portrait painter

John Henry Lorimer (1856–1936), portraitist and genre painter, brother of architect Robert Lorimer

Robert Macaulay Stevenson (1854–1952), painter

Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)

Frances MacDonald (1873–1921), Glasgow School artist, sister of Margaret MacDonald

Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), Glasgow School artist, wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

John Roy Macfarlane (1830-1906) Glasgow Portrait Painter

James MacGillivray (1856–1938), sculptor

William York Macgregor (1855–1923), landscape painter

Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934), painter, engraver

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), architect, designer, husband of Margaret MacDonald

James Herbert MacNair (1868–1955), Glasgow School artist, designer and teacher

Harrington Mann (1864–1937), portrait artist and decorative painter, member of the Glasgow Boys movement

George Manson (1850–1876), watercolour painter

James McBey (1883–1959), painter, etcher and war artist

Horatio McCulloch (1806–1867), landscape painter

R. R. McIan (1803–1856), painter

William McTaggart (1835–1910), landscape painter

Arthur Melville (1858–1904), painter, remembered for his Orientalist subjects

Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928), artist, known as one of the Glasgow Boys

James MacLauchlan Nairn (1859–1904), Glasgow-born painter who influenced New Zealand painting in the late 19th century

Jessie Newbery (1864–1948), Glasgow School artist and embroiderer

James Campbell Noble (1846–1913), landscape and marine painter

Robert Noble, (1857–1917), painter specialising in landscapes, first President of the Society of Scottish Artists

Emily Murray Paterson (1855–1934), painter

James Paterson (1854–1932), landscape and portrait painter, associated with The Glasgow Boys movement

SIr Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901), painter of religious subjects

John Pettie (1839–1893), painter

Sir George Pirie (1863–1946), artist associated with the Glasgow Boys in the 1880s

John Quinton Pringle (1865–1925), painter, influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and associated with the Glasgow Boys

Anne Redpath (1895–1967), artist whose vivid domestic still lifes are among her best-known works

Sir George Reid (1841–1913), landscape and portrait painter

John Robertson Reid (1851–1926), painter

Robert Sivell (1888–1958), painter

Sir John Robert Steell RSA (1804–1891), sculptor, works including the statue of Sir Walter Scott at the Scott Monument

David Watson Stevenson (1842–1904), sculptor, executing portraits and monuments in marble and bronze

William Grant Stevenson (1849–1919), sculptor and painter

David Macbeth Sutherland (1883–1973), painter of Scottish and Breton landscapes, and portraits

Adam Bruce Thomson (1885–1976), The Edinburgh School artist, landscape and portrait painter

Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922), painter of landscapes and portraits

Cecile Walton (1891–1956), painter, illustrator and sculptor

George Fiddes Watt (1873–1960), portrait painter and engraver

James Cromar Watt (1862–1940), artist, architect and jeweller

Saul Yaffie (1898–1957), Jewish artist, later known as Paul Jeffay

Born 1900–1949

David Annand (born 1948), sculptor

Eric Auld (1931–2013), painter

Robert Bain (1911–1973), sculptor, and professor of art in South Africa

Edward Baird (1904–1949), painter

John Bellany (1942–2013), painter

Helen Biggar (1909-1953), sculptor, filmmaker and theatre designer

Douglas Robertson Bisset (1908-2000), sculptor

Sam Black (1913–1997)

Robert Henderson Blyth (1919–1970)

Mary Syme Boyd (1910-1997), artist and sculptor

Jimmy Boyle (born 1944) sculptor, author and convicted murderer

Mark Boyle (1934–2005)

Howard Butterworth, painter working in Aberdeenshire since the 1960s

John Byrne (born 1940)

Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)

William (Bill) Crosbie (1915–1999)

Richard Demarco (born 1930), artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts

David Abercrombie Donaldson (1916-1996) Painter and Limner to Her Majesty The Queen

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), sculptor and installation artist

Hannah Frank (1908–2008), artist and sculptor

Tom Gourdie (1913–2005), artist

Alasdair Gray (born 1934), artist and writer

Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer

Rory McEwen (1932–1982), artist and musician

James Morrison (born 1932), landscape painter

John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948)

Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)

William MacTaggart (1903–1981), landscape painter

John Maxwell (1905–1962), painter of landscapes and imaginative subjects

Alberto Morrocco (1917–1998), artist

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005), sculptor

James McIntosh Patrick (1907-1998), painter of landscapes and portraits

Ancell Stronach (1901–1981), artist

Alan Sutherland (born 1931), portrait painter

Alasdair Taylor (1934–2007), sculptor

Sylvia Wishart (1936–2008), Orcadian landscape artist

George Wyllie MBE (1921–2012), sculptor, known for his public art

John Stoa (Born 1944) Dundee artist paints figures, landscapes and snow scenes

Born 1950–1999

Crawfurd Adamson (born 1953), figurative artist

Charles Avery (born 1973), artist

David Batchelor (born 1955)

Karla Black (born 1972), sculptor, nominated for the 2011 Turner Prize

Martin Boyce (born 1967), sculptor

Hugh Buchanan (born 1958), watercolourist

Roderick Buchanan (born 1965)

Paul Carter (1970–2006)

Stephen Conroy (born 1964)

Ken Currie (born 1960), England-born member of the New Glasgow Boys

Helen Denerley (born 1956), sculptor, much of her work made from reused scrap and inspired by the animal world

Kate Downie (born 1958), painter and printmaker

Michael Fullerton (born 1971), traditional portrait painter based in London

Anya Gallaccio (born 1963)

Douglas Gordon (born 1966), winner of the 1996 Turner Prize

Andrew Grassie (born 1966), painter using tempera

Claire Harrigan (born 1964)

Peter Howson (born 1958)

Richard Johnson (born 1966), Scotland-born and educated war artist

Anna King (born 1984), painter

Henry Kondracki (born 1953), painter

David Mach (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist

John McKenna (sculptor), (born 1964) public artist, statue and monument creator

Abigail McLellan (1969–2009)

Susan Philipsz OBE (born 1965), sound installation artist, winner of the 2010 Turner Prize

Andy Scott (born 1964), figurative sculptor

Lucy Skaer (born 1975)

Evlynn Smith (1962–2003), artist, designer and furniture maker

Alexander Stoddart (born 1959), neoclassical sculptor

Thomson & Craighead (Alison Craighead born 1971), working with video and internet

Jack Vettriano (born 1951), painter

Alison Watt (born 1965), painter

Born 2000 and after

Jack Henderson (born 2004)