List of British artists

A partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically (artists born in the same year should be arranged alphabetically within that year).

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), a 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 (c1712–1787) – 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 water-colours 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 painters
• 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 water-colour 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 water-colour 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 water-color 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
• Lucy Madox Brown (1843 - 1894) - English 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 Land- and 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 & watercolour
• James Pittendreigh MacGillivray (1856–1938) – Scottish sculptor
• 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-....) - English watercolourist
• Archibald Standish Hartrick - (1864-1950)
• Arthur Wardle (1864–1949) – English painter
• William Edwin Pimm (1864–1952) British Artist – oil & 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 an 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)
• 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 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
• Colin Gill (1892-1940) – English painter
• Gilbert Spencer (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
• 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

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)
• Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
• Ray Howard-Jones (1903-1996)
• 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)
• Reg Bunn (1905–1971)
• Edward Burra (1905–1976)
• Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1987)
• Kenneth Martin (1905–1984)
• Robert Medley (1905–1994)
• Vernon Ward (1905–1985)
• Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
• Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960)
• Joan Hassall (1906–1988)
• Edgar Hubert (1906-1985)
• Kenneth Steel (1906-1970)
• Reginald Ben Davis (1907–1998)
• 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)
• Paul Lucien Dessau (1909-1999)
• Harold Frank Hoar (1909–1976)
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992) – born in Ireland
• Leslie Hurry (1909–1978)
• Geoffrey Tibble (1909-1952)
• Bernard Hailstone (1910-1987)
• Rodrigo Moynihan (1910–1990)
• Roger Hilton (1911–1975)
• Anthony Devas (1911-1958)
• 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)
• Frank Roper (1914—2000), sculptor
• Norman Whitehead (1915–1983)
• John Bridgeman (1916–2004)
• Anthony Robert Klitz (1917–2000)
• John Minton (1917–1957)
• Mona Moore (1917-2000)
• John Kashdan (1917–2001)
• James Lawrence Isherwood (1917–1989)
• Peter Lanyon (1918–1964)
• Richard Vicary (1918-2006), printmaker
• Norman Cornish (1919–2014)
• Cliff Holden (1919–)
• Michael Ford (1920-2005)
• Patrick Heron (1920–1999)
• Françoise Taylor (1920 - 2007) - Born in Belgium, British by marriage
• 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)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
• Tom McGuinness (1926–2006)
• Beryl Cook (1926–2008)
• Michael Edmonds (1926–2014)
• Leon Kossoff (born 1926)
• Edna Mann (1926–1985)
• 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)
• 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)
• Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) – Royal Painter.
• Peter Blake (born 1932)
• Howard Hodgkin (born 1932)
• Ken Howard (born 1932)
• R. B. Kitaj (1932–2007) – born in USA
• Euan Uglow (1932–2000)
• Ian Weatherhead (born 1932)
• Marc Vaux (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
• Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005)
• David Hockney (born 1937)
• David Hall (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)
• Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015)
• Zacron (1943–2012) – Multi Media Artist, Writer, Broadcaster
• David Paskett (born 1944)
• Bruce McLean (born 1944)
• Ali Omar Ermes (born 1945)
• Maggi Hambling (born 1945)
• David Imms (born 1945)
• Richard Long (born 1945)
• Lewis Blake (born 1946)
• Rose Garrard (born 1946)
• Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007), sculptor
• Richard Cook (born 1947)
• Linda Sutton (born 1947)
• Godfrey Blow (born 1948)
• Richard Deacon (born 1949) 1987 Turner Prize Winner

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)
• Melinda Camber Porter (1953–2008) painter writer filmmaker journalist The Times lived in London Paris and New York
• Chris Gollon (born 1953)
• Charles Thomson (born 1953)
• Aidan Hughes (born 1954)
• Anish Kapoor (born 1954)
• David Tress (born 1955)
• Errol Francis (born 1956)
• Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 1957)
• Thomas Hodges (born 1957) photographic and mixed media artist
• Willard Wigan (born 1957)
• Keith Coventry (born 1958)
• Lennie Lee (born 1958) – born in South Africa
• Jake Tilson (born 1958)
• Keith Salmon (born 1959) Scottish landscape painter born in England
• Andy Dog Johnson (born 1959)
• Hew Locke (born 1959) – born in Scotland
• Suzzan Blac (born 1960)
• John Foulger (1960–2006)
• Grayson Perry (born 1960)
• Marion Kalmus (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)
• Guy Denning (born 1965)
• Damien Hirst (born 1965)
• Sarah Lucas (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.
• Guy Tarrant (born 1966)
• Peter Brown (born 1967)
• Paul Rooney (born 1967)
• Chris Ofili (born 1968)
• Suling Wang (born 1968)
• Brita Granström (born 1969)
• Jonathan Myles-Lea (born 1969), painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes
• Chantal Joffe (born 1969)
• 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
• Benedict Carpenter (born 1975)
• Graham Nicholls (born 1975)
• Lucy Skaer (born 1975)
• Matt O'dell (born 1976)
• Adelaide Damoah (born c1977)
• Maryam Hashemi (born 1977)
• Claire Hooper (born 1978)
• Nick Gentry (born 1980)
• Conor Harrington (born 1980)
• Polly Morgan (born 1980)
• Stuart Semple (born 1980)
• Edward Kluz (born 1980)
• Molly Garnier (born 1981)
• Chris (Simpsons artist) (born 1983)
• Anna King (born 1984)
• 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)

See also

• List of Manx artists
• List of artists from Northern Ireland
• List of Scottish artists
• List of Welsh artists