List of British artists
This is a partial list of artists active in Britain, arranged chronologically.
Born before 1700
- Hans Holbein the Younger – German artist and printmaker who became court painter in England
- Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder – Flemish printmaker and painter for the English court of the mid-16th century
- George Gower – English portrait painter
- Nicholas Hilliard – English goldsmith, limner, portrait miniature painter
- Rowland Lockey – English goldsmith, portrait miniaturist, painter
- Isaac Oliver – French-born English portrait miniature painter
- Anthony van Dyck – Flemish Baroque painter, watercolourist and etcher who became court painter in England
- Wenceslaus Hollar – Czech etcher
- Samuel Cooper – English miniature painter
- John Michael Wright – British baroque portrait painter
- Peter Lely – Dutch painter and portrait artist in England
- Francis Barlow – English painter, etcher, and illustrator
- David Loggan – British baroque painter
- Godfrey Kneller – portrait painter in England
- Francis Place – potter and engraver
- James Thornhill – English painter of historical subjects
- Jonathan Richardson – English portrait painter
- Peter Monamy – English marine painter
- John Wootton – English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes
- Pieter Andreas Rysbrack – Flemish painter working in London
- John Michael Rysbrack – Flemish sculptor working in London
- John Vanderbank – English portrait painter and book illustrator
- William Hogarth – English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist
Born 1700–1799
- Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle – Franco-English painter specializing in literary, historical and religious subjects.
- Louis-François Roubiliac – French sculptor whose works reside in Westminster Abbey
- Samuel Scott – British landscape painter
- James Seymour – English painter especially of equestrian art
- William Hoare – English painter especially of pastels
- Francis Hayman – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
- Arthur Devis – English portrait painter, especially of conversation pieces and other small portraits
- Allan Ramsay – Scottish portrait painter
- Richard Wilson – Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy
- Alexander Cozens – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting
- Charles Brooking – English painter
- Joshua Reynolds – English painter specialising in portraits
- George Stubbs – British painter especially of horses
- Francis Cotes – English painter
- Thomas Gainsborough – English portrait and landscape painter
- Paul Sandby – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
- Sawrey Gilpin – English animal painter
- Johann Zoffany – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England
- George Romney – English portrait painter
- Joseph Wright – English landscape and portrait painter
- Alexander Runciman – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects
- Mary Black – English portrait painter
- Joseph Nollekens – sculptor from London
- Francis Towne – English watercolour painter
- Angelica Kauffman – Swiss-Austrian painter
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – English artist of French origin
- William Marlow – English landscape and marine artist
- John Hamilton Mortimer – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings
- Matthew William Peters English portrait painter
- James Barry – Irish painter
- Henry Fuseli – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin
- Richard Cosway – English portrait painter, miniaturist
- Ozias Humphry – English painter of portrait miniatures
- John Robert Cozens – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes
- Thomas Bewick – English wood engraver and ornithologist
- Thomas Stothard – painter and dramatist
- Henry Raeburn – Scottish portrait painter
- Thomas Rowlandson – English artist and caricaturist
- William Blake – English poet, painter, and printmaker
- Alexander Nasmyth – Scottish portrait and landscape painter
- Lemuel Francis Abbott – English portrait painter
- Thomas Lawrence – English painter, mostly of portraits
- Charles Fairfield – English painter, mostly known as a copyist
- John Charles Felix Rossi – sculptor
- Arthur William Devis – English painter of history paintings and portraits
- George Morland – English painter of animals and rustic scenes
- Joshua Cristall – Cornish watercolour painter
- John Crome – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters
- James Ward – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
- Thomas Phillips – English portrait and subject painter
- Henry James Richter – engraver and painter
- Anne Frances Byrne – painter of flowers and still lifes
- Thomas Girtin – English painter, watercolourist, and etcher
- J. M. W. Turner – English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
- John Constable – English Romantic painter
- John Higton – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver
- Maria Spilsbury – painter of religious subjects
- John Masey Wright – watercolour painter
- John Varley – English watercolour painter and astrologer
- Augustus Wall Callcott – English landscape painter
- Samuel Colman – English painter
- James Holworthy – watercolour painter
- John Sell Cotman – artist of the Norwich school, mainly in watercolour
- Frederick Nash – architectural and landscape painter
- David Cox – English landscape painter
- Samuel Prout – English watercolour painter
- Peter De Wint – English landscape painter
- John Romney – mainly printmaking and watercolour
- David Wilkie – Scottish painter
- William Mulready – Irish genre painter living in London
- Benjamin Haydon – English historical painter and writer
- Patrick Nasmyth – Scottish landscape painter
- John Martin – English painter
- William Henry Hunt – English watercolor painter
- George Hayter English painter, specialising in portraits
- John Linnell – English landscape painter
- Francis Danby – Irish painter
- Edward Calvert – English printmaker and painter
- James Holland – landscape painter and illustrator
- Eglington Margaret Pearson – stained glass painter
Born 1800–1899
- Richard Parkes Bonington – English Romantic landscape painter
- Edwin Henry Landseer – English painter and sculptor especially of animals, particularly horses, dogs and stags
- Thomas Shotter Boys – English watercolor painter
- Thomas Sidney Cooper – English painter especially of cattle and farm animals
- John Steell – Scottish sculptor
- John Frederick Lewis – Orientalist English painter
- Samuel Palmer – English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
- William Dyce – Scottish artist
- Arthur Elliot – British watercolourist
- Thomas Mogford – English portrait painter and landscape painter
- James John Hill – English painter
- Edmund John Niemann – English painter
- Lucette Barker – English painter
- William James Blacklock – English landscape artist, painting scenery in Cumbria, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders
- Edward Armitage – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects
- Richard Dadd – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes
- Walter Hood Fitch – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
- George Frederic Watts – English Victorian painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement
- Branwell Brontë – English portrait painter; one of the Brontë children, brother of Anne, Emily and Charlotte; occasional poet and writer
- William Hemsley – English genre painter; vice president of the Society of British Artists
- William Powell Frith – English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives
- Ford Madox Brown – English painter of moral and historical subjects
- Lefevre James Cranstone – English painter, known for paintings of antebellum America
- Frederick Goodall – English artist specialising in oriental scenes
- Frederick William Keyl – German-born British painter of animals
- Charles Davidson – English watercolour painter
- Henry Alexander Bowler – English painter and academic
- Abraham Solomon – English painter
- Thomas Woolner – English sculptor and poet
- Barbara Bodichon - English educationalist and landscape artist
- William Holman Hunt – British painter, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Robert Taylor Pritchett – English watercolour artist and illustrator
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti – English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
- Anna Blunden – English painter
- James Docharty – Scottish landscape painter
- Edwin Long – English orientalist painter, depicting Biblical and Middle Eastern subjects
- John Everett Millais – English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Alfred William Hunt – English painter
- Frederic Leighton – English painter and sculptor especially of historical, biblical and classical subject matter
- Charles James Lewis – English painter in oils and watercolours
- Marianne North – English naturalist and flower painter
- Walter Severn – English watercolourist
- John William Bailey – British miniature painter
- Benjamin Williams Leader – English painter
- Louise Rayner – English watercolourist
- Arthur Hughes – English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- William Quiller Orchardson – Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects
- Edward Burne-Jones – English artist and designer
- William Morris – English artist, writer, and socialist
- James McNeill Whistler – American-born, British-based painter and etcher
- Wyke Bayliss – English painter of churches and cathedrals
- William McTaggart – Scottish landscape painter
- Arthur Boyd Houghton – British painter and illustrator
- John Atkinson Grimshaw – English painter especially of landscapes
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema – British classical-subject painter
- James Tissot – French-born painter of portraits as well as genre subjects
- Simeon Solomon – English Pre-Raphaelite painter
- Frederick Walker – English Social Realist painter and illustrator in watercolours and oils
- Albert Moore – English painter especially of female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world
- Thomas Bush Hardy – British marine painter and watercolourist
- Alexander Rossi – British artist specializing in genre works
- Lucy Madox Brown – English painter and watercolourist
- Walter Crane – English artist and book illustrator
- Frank Holl – English painter
- Walter Greaves – English painter
- James Campbell Noble – Scottish landscape, seascape and portrait painter
- Ralph Hedley – English realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator
- John William Waterhouse – English Pre-Raphaelite painter especially of female characters from mythology and literature
- John Collier – British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style
- Robert Weir Allan - Glasgow born painter of landscape and marine subjects
- John Charles Dollman – English narrative, landscape and animal painter
- Edward Robert Hughes – English painter in a Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism style
- Edmund Leighton – English painter in Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic styles
- Frank Dicksee – English Victorian painter and illustrator especially of dramatic historical and legendary scenes
- Maude Goodman – English Victorian fine art painter and children’s book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings
- Caroline Gotch – English painter associated with the Newlyn School of artists
- Walter Dendy Sadler – English painter
- Alfred Wallis – Cornish fisherman and artist
- David Winder – Bolton, Lancashire-born British artist; oil and watercolour
- James Pittendreigh MacGillivray – Scottish sculptor
- Alfred William Rich – English landscape artist
- John Singer Sargent – American portrait painter of his era, landscape painter and watercolorist
- Richard Caton Woodville – English artist, and illustrator especially of battle scenes
- Stanhope Forbes – British artist, founder of the Newlyn School
- Arthur Hacker – English classicist painter
- Walter Sickert – English Impressionist painter
- Solomon Joseph Solomon – English painter of mythological scenes and portraits
- Philip Wilson Steer – English artist
- Lily Delissa Joseph – English painter
- Charles Edgar Buckeridge – church decorative artist
- Archibald Standish Hartrick – Scottish painter
- Arthur Wardle – English painter
- William Edwin Pimm – British artist, oil and watercolours
- Arthur Lowe – English landscape artist from Kinoulton, Nottingham
- Robert Bevan – British painter
- H. Gustave Hiller – mainly of stained glass
- Roger Fry – English artist and art critic
- Mabel Lee Hankey – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory
- Frank Brangwyn – Welsh artist, painter, water colourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer
- J M Balliol Salmon – British painter
- Charles Murray Padday – English painter
- Ursula Wood – English painter
- Lamorna Birch – English painter
- Lucy Kemp-Welch – English equine artist
- Henry Crocket – landscape painter
- William Ratcliffe – English artist
- Phelan Gibb – British artist and early modernist, painting in Paris 1910–1914
- Sholto Johnstone Douglas – Scottish artist
- Florence Engelbach – English painter born in Spain
- Alfred Garth Jones – English artist and illustrator
- William Nicholson – English painter, illustrator and author of children's books
- Aubrey Beardsley – English illustrator and author especially of erotic illustrations
- Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale – English artist and illustrator
- Louie Burrell – English painter
- Isabel Codrington – English painter
- John Duncan Fergusson – Scottish artist, one of the Scottish Colourists school of painting
- Hilda May Gordon – British watercolourist
- Frank O. Salisbury – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works
- Dorothea Sharp – British landscape painter
- Eleanor Best – portrait and figure painter
- Evelyn Cheston – English landscape painter
- Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond – English painter best known for landscapes, society portraits, and industrial paintings
- Margaret Fisher Prout – English painter
- Walter Dexter – English oil and watercolour artist, particularly of Norfolk
- Harold Gilman – English artist and founder-member of the Camden Town Group
- Gwen John – Welsh artist
- Horace Tuck – Norfolk artist of oil and watercolour landscapes
- Florence Mabel Hollams – painter of dogs and horses
- Laura Knight – British artist
- Donald Maxwell – English illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours
- Frank Cadogan Cowper – English artist
- Charles Ginner – French-born painter, member of Camden Town Group
- Spencer Gore – British painter who was first president of the Camden Town Group
- Augustus John – Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher
- Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA – English artist, particularly renowned for equine subject matter
- Ada Hill Walker – scientific illustrator and artist
- William Reid Dick – Scottish sculptor
- Vanessa Bell – English painter and interior designer
- Gertrude Harvey – English landscape painter
- Matthew Smith – English painter
- Malcolm Drummond – English artist, noted for his paintings of urban scenes and interiors
- Jacob Epstein – American-born sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture
- Elsie Henderson – English painter and sculptor
- Harry Morley – English painter
- Eric Gill – British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker
- Percy Wyndham Lewis – English painter and author
- Henry Lamb – Australian-born British painter
- Victoria Monkhouse – English painter
- Arthur Watts – illustrator
- Elinor Proby Adams – English painter
- Duncan Grant – Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group
- Gwen Raverat – English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers
- Randolph Schwabe – English artist
- Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot – English painter
- Austin Osman Spare – English artist and occultist
- L. S. Lowry – English artist
- Elizabeth Polunin – English artist and theatre designer
- Arthur James F. Bond – English painter of maritime subjects
- Sydney Carline – English artist
- David Dougal Williams – British artist and art teacher
- Margaret Lindsay Williams – Welsh portrait painter
- Edith Grace Wheatley – English painter
- Robert Gibbings – Irish artist and author known especially as a wood engraver and for books on travel and natural history
- Paul Nash – English war artist
- Christopher Nevinson – English painter and vorticist
- Ruth Simpson – English portrait painter
- Edward Wadsworth – English artist
- David Bomberg – English painter and one of the Whitechapel Boys
- Charles Cundall – English painter
- Joseph Gray – English painter
- Nina Hamnett – Welsh artist and writer
- Francis Helps – English artist
- Edmond Xavier Kapp – English artist
- Iain Macnab – Scottish painter
- Olive Mudie-Cooke – English painter
- Leon Underwood – British sculptor, painter, and engraver
- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska – French sculptor and vorticist
- Mark Gertler – British portrait and landscape painter
- Stanley Spencer – English painter
- Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd – English portrait painter
- Elsa Fraenkel – German born British sculptor
- Colin Gill – English painter
- Gilbert Spencer – British painter
- Harold Sandys Williamson – British painter
- John Armstrong – British artist
- John Nash – English painter, illustrator, and engraver
- Winifred Nicholson – English painter
- Orovida Camille Pissarro – English painter and etcher
- Leonard Squirrell – English watercolourist and etcher
- Henry Matthew Talintyre – British artist
- Flora Twort – English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels
- Henry Carr – British painter
- Meredith Frampton – British artist
- Alethea Garstin – Cornish painter
- Ben Nicholson – English abstract painter
- Dora Clarke – English sculptor
- David Jones – Welsh artist and British modernist poet
- William Roberts – English painter and war artist
- Raymond Coxon – British artist
- Leila Faithfull – British artist
- John Buckland Wright – New Zealand born illustrator
- Henry Moore – English artist and sculptor
- Rodney Joseph Burn – English artist
- Winifred Knights – English painter
Born 1900–1949
- Ursula Edgcumbe
- Barbara Greg
- George Lambourn
- Roland Penrose
- Harold Tamblyn-Watts
- Gertrude Hermes
- Elsie Dalton Hewland
- Ancell Stronach – Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art
- Fred Whicker
- Christopher Wood
- Marjorie Frances Bruford
- Jean Clark
- Frank Barrington Craig
- Aileen Eagleton
- Simon Elwes
- Robin Guthrie
- Barbara Hepworth
- Ray Howard-Jones
- Charles Mahoney
- John Piper
- Eric Ravilious
- Ceri Richards
- Albert Houthuesen
- Graham Sutherland
- Mary Adshead
- Celia Frances Bedford
- Helen Binyon
- Stephen Bone
- Evan Charlton
- Griselda Allan
- Reg Bunn
- Edward Burra
- Kathleen Guthrie
- Eliot Hodgkin
- Morris Kestelman
- Kenneth Martin
- Robert Medley
- Vernon Ward
- Rex Whistler
- Kathleen Allen
- Evelyn Dunbar
- Patrick Hall
- Joan Hassall
- Edgar Hubert
- Kenneth Steel
- Reginald Ben Davis
- Phyllis Ginger
- Brenda Landon, later Brenda Pye
- Claude Rogers
- William Coldstream
- Isobel Heath
- Norman Hepple
- Victor Pasmore
- Stella Schmolle
- Carel Weight
- Francis Bacon – born in Ireland
- Dorothea Braby
- Thomas Carr
- Leonard Daniels
- Paul Lucien Dessau
- Harold Frank Hoar
- Gwynneth Holt – ivory sculptor
- Leslie Hurry
- Eric Taylor
- Geoffrey Tibble
- Isabel Alexander
- Pamela Drew
- Bernard Hailstone
- Rodrigo Moynihan
- Rosemary Allan
- Phyllis Bray
- John Kingsley Cook
- Anthony Devas
- Roger Hilton
- Nicolette Macnamara
- Gwen Barnard
- Andrew Freeth
- Erlund Hudson
- Georgina Hunt
- Keith Vaughan
- Reg Butler
- Raymond Teague Cowern
- Joan Hutt
- Leonard Rosoman
- Lynn Chadwick
- Harold Hitchcock
- Frances Macdonald
- Charles Mozley
- Frank Roper – sculptor
- Doris Blair
- Dennis Flanders
- Wendy F. Walsh – Illustrator and botanical artist
- Norman Whitehead
- Eileen Aldridge
- John Bridgeman
- Margaret Thomas, painter
- James Lawrence Isherwood
- John Kashdan
- Anthony Robert Klitz
- John Minton
- Mona Moore
- Estella Campavias
- John Kyffin Williams
- Peter Lanyon
- Richard Vicary – printmaker
- Eden Box
- Mary Audsley
- Norman Cornish
- Colin Hayes
- Cliff Holden
- Peter Wright
- Michael Ford
- Patrick Heron
- Robert Tavener
- Françoise Taylor – born in Belgium, British by marriage
- Derek Chittock
- Lucian Freud
- Richard Hamilton
- Eduardo Paolozzi
- Miles Richmond
- Pamela Ascherson
- William McLaren
- Anthony Caro
- Anthony Earnshaw
- Erich von Götha de la Rosière
- Keith Sutton
- Beryl Cook
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Michael Edmonds
- Leon Kossoff
- Edna Mann
- Tom McGuinness
- Patrick Swift – born in Ireland
- Michael Andrews
- John Copnall
- Dora Holzhandler – born in Paris to Polish parents but lived in London
- Elizabeth Jane Lloyd
- Dorothy Mead
- Joe Tilson
- John Scanes
- Victor Willing
- Barbara Balmer
- Zelda Nolte
- Mardi Barrie
- Robyn Denny
- David Gentleman
- Donald Pass
- John Ambrose
- Frank Auerbach
- Dennis Creffield
- Malcolm Morley – first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984
- Bridget Riley
- Valerie Thornton
- Audrey Barker
- Peter Blake
- Howard Hodgkin
- Norman Douglas Hutchinson – royal painter
- Ken Howard
- R. B. Kitaj – born in the United States
- Euan Uglow
- Marc Vaux
- Ian Weatherhead
- Richard Allen
- John Furnival – artist of visual and concrete poetry
- Vincent Haddelsey
- John Hoyland
- Jeremy Moon
- Garth Evans – sculptor
- Rose Wylie – painter
- Paula Rego – born in Portugal
- Frank Bowling
- Patrick Caulfield
- David Hall
- David Hockney
- Allen Jones
- Tom Phillips
- Margot Perryman
- Carole Steyn
- William Tillyer
- Terry Atkinson
- Rose Frain
- Anthony Green
- Patrick Hughes
- Ian Hunter – Dean of Saint Martin's School of Art
- John Walker – painter and printmaker
- John Byrne
- Peter Liddle
- Barry Flanagan
- Yvonne Hutton
- Geoffrey Key
- Robert Lenkiewicz
- Ruth Rix
- Alan Aldridge
- Grange Calveley
- Errol Lloyd
- Osi Rhys Osmond
- Graham Ovenden
- Valerie Wiffen
- Zacron – multimedia artist, writer, broadcaster
- Robert Perry
- Lindsay Bartholomew
- Bruce McLean
- David Paskett
- Ali Omar Ermes
- Maggi Hambling
- Ed Herring
- Geoffrey Humphries
- David Imms
- Richard Long
- Val Archer
- Lewis Blake
- Paul Dash
- Rose Garrard
- Winston Branch
- Shelagh Cluett – sculptor
- Richard Cook
- Tam Joseph
- Vikki Slowe – printmaker and painter
- Linda Sutton
- Godfrey Blow
- Richard Deacon – 1987 Turner Prize Winner
- Paul Wager – painter and sculptor
Born 1950 and later
- Sam Ainsley
- Pete Gilbert – graphic designer and painter
- Antony Gormley
- Edward Allington
- Paul Kenny
- Humphrey Ocean
- Richard Spare
- Colin Nichols
- Jeremy Henderson – artist and painter
- Stephen Pusey
- Alan Rankle – landscape painter
- Jane Boyd
- Chris Gollon
- Ingrid Pollard
- Melinda Camber Porter – painter, writer, filmmaker, journalist for The Times; lived in London, Paris, and New York
- Charles Thomson
- Martin Yeoman
- Michael Clark
- Lubaina Himid
- Aidan Hughes
- Anish Kapoor
- Vivien Blackett
- David Tress
- Denzil Forrester
- Errol Francis
- James Dodds
- Jeremy Gardiner
- Fiona Graham-Mackay – portraits of the royal family
- Thomas Hodges – photographic and mixed media artist
- Panayiotis Kalorkoti
- Willard Wigan
- Sokari Douglas Camp
- Keith Coventry
- Lennie Lee – born in South Africa
- Jake Tilson
- Andy Dog Johnson
- Claudette Johnson
- Hew Locke – born in Scotland
- Bruce Munro
- Keith Salmon – Scottish landscape painter born in England
- Suzzan Blac
- Eddie Chambers
- John Foulger
- Isaac Julien
- Grayson Perry
- Nick Fudge
- Keith Piper
- Julie Brook
- Sonia Boyce
- Jonathan S Hooper
- Marion Kalmus
- Sarah Lucas
- Paul Mellia
- Nick Miller – Irish painter born in England
- Janette Parris
- Nasser Azam
- Nicola Bealing
- Tracey Emin
- Robert Fogell
- Janette Parris
- Dean Stalham
- Barbara Walker
- Gillian Wearing – 1997 Turner Prize winner
- Rachel Whiteread – 1993 Turner Prize winner
- Frances Aviva Blane
- Simon Gales
- Chris Hipkiss
- Rachel Ara
- Tom Cartmill
- Adam Chodzko
- Marion Coutts
- Guy Denning
- Damien Hirst
- Jonathan Huxley
- Robert Priseman
- Fiona Banner
- Fiona Crisp – photographer
- Ian Davenport
- Juno Doran
- Christian Furr
- Igor Kufayev
- Maria Marshall
- Elizabeth Price – 2012 Turner Prize winner
- Peter Brown
- Serena de la Hey, sculptor
- Andy Lomas
- Virginia Nimarkoh
- Paul Rooney
- Chris Ofili
- Suling Wang
- Brita Granström
- Chantal Joffe
- Jonathan Myles-Lea – painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes
- Michael Gustavius Payne
- Alexander Talbot Rice – society portrait painter
- Justin Mortimer
- Nina Murdoch – tempera painter
- Mandy Wilkinson
- Jonathan Kearney
- Anna Barriball – mixed media artist
- Dee Ferris
- Peter Liversidge
- Banksy
- Tom Palin
- Stephen Wiltshire – savant artist
- Graham Nicholls
- Lucy Skaer
- Amanda Ansell
- Reuben Colley
- Adelaide Damoah
- Maryam Hashemi
- Conrad Shawcross
- Claire Hooper
- Angela Wakefield
- Hannah Rickards
- Fuller
- Nick Gentry
- Conor Harrington
- Edward Kluz
- Polly Morgan
- Stuart Semple
- Chris
- Anna King
- Anthony Smith – bronze sculptor
- Sarah Maple – feminist artist, first New Sensations winner
- Emma Cousin
- Johan Andersson
- Nathan Wyburn – food artist
- Pogus Caesar – born in St Kitts
- Banksy
- Bruce Munro