Find out more about the greatest British Artists, including Banksy, William Blake, Damien Hirst, Cynthia Lennon and Anish Kapoor.
Ant Anstead29 February 1979
Television Presenter
William Blake28 November 1757
Painter
John Ruskin08 February 1819
Art Critic and Painter
David Hockney09 July 1937
Painter
J. M. W. Turner23 April 1775
Romanticist landscape painter
Damien Hirst07 June 1965
Artist
Tracey Emin03 July 1963
Artist, Painter
John Constable11 June 1776
Romantic Painter
Thomas Gainsborough14 May 1727
Landscape painter
John Berger05 November 1926
Novelist
Barbara Hepworth10 January 1903
Artist
Lawrence Alma-Tadema08 January 1836
Painter
Alfred Sisley30 October 1839
Impressionist Landscape Painter
Sophie Gengembre Anderson1823 AD
Painter
Jack Butler Yeats29 August 1871
Irish artist
Allen Jones01 September 1937
Artist
Dusty Springfield16 April 1939
Singer, Artist, Cleric
Cynthia Lennon10 September 1939
Film maker
PJ Harvey09 October 1969
Singer-songwriter, Composer, Artist, Singer,
Leo Sayer21 May 1948
Artist, Singer-songwriter, Singer
Stephen Wiltshire24 April 1974
illustrator, artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti12 May 1828
Poet, Illustrator, Painter, Writer, Artist,
Lucian Freud08 December 1922
Painter, Illustrator, Printmaker
Holly Johnson09 February 1960
Singer, Writer, Artist, Guitarist, Painter
Anish Kapoor12 March 1954
Sculptor, Visual artist, Painter, Architect
John Everett Millais08 June 1829
Painter, Illustrator
Charles Rennie Mackintosh07 June 1868
Architect, Painter, Designer, Sculptor
John William Waterhouse06 April 1849
Painter
William Hogarth10 November 1697
Painter, Caricaturist, Illustrator, Graphic artist
Derek Jarman31 January 1942
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Diarist,
L. S. Lowry01 November 1887
Painter
Grayson Perry24 March 1960
Artist
Frieda Hughes01 April 1960
Painter, Poet, Writer, Children's writer
Antony Gormley30 August 1950
Sculptor, Artist
Dave Lee Travis25 May 1945
Photographer, Television presenter, Radio
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Louis Wain05 August 1860
Artist, Painter
Vanessa Bell30 May 1879
Painter
Bridget Riley24 April 1931
Painter
Joshua Reynolds16 July 1723
Painter
Thomas Cole01 February 1801
Painter
Eric Gill22 February 1882
Type designer, Sculptor, Graphic designer,
Peter Greenaway05 April 1942
Theatre director, Film director, Writer,
Elizabeth Siddal25 July 1829
Painter, Poet, Art model, Visual artist, Model
Branwell Brontë26 June 1817
Painter, Poet, Writer
Gerald Scarfe01 June 1936
Caricaturist, Illustrator, Designer, Animator,
Graham Sutherland24 August 1903
Painter, Artist
Oskar Kokoschka01 March 1886
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Edward Burne-Jones28 August 1833
Painter
Jay Jopling1963 AD
Art dealer
Henry Fuseli07 February 1741
Writer
William Holman Hunt02 April 1827
Painter, Artist
Arthur Rackham19 September 1867
Painter, Illustrator
Stevie Starr07 July 1966
Stage magician
Jack Vettriano17 November 1951
Painter
Eduardo Paolozzi07 March 1924
Sculptor, University teacher, Painter
Augustus John04 January 1878
Painter, Etcher
E. H. Shepard10 December 1879
Artist, Illustrator, Painter
Jenny Saville07 May 1970
painter
Yinka Shonibare09 August 1962
painter, Photographer
Wyndham Lewis18 November 1882
Painter, Writer, Journalist, Editor, Novelist
Linder Sterling1954 AD
photographer
Richard Dadd01 August 1817
Painter, Illustrator
Rachel Whiteread20 April 1963
Sculptor
Brian Froud1947 AD
painter, illustrator
Gertrude Jekyll29 November 1843
Horticulturist, Painter, Gardener, Non-fiction
Angelica Kauffman30 October 1741
Painter
Joseph Wright of Derby03 September 1734
Painter, Artist
Dora Carrington29 March 1893
Painter
Peter Scott14 September 1909
Ornithologist, Illustrator, Painter, Postage stamp
John Atkinson Grimshaw06 September 1836
Painter
Chris Ofili10 October 1968
Painter, Sculptor, Artist, Visual artist
Roger Fry14 December 1866
Curator, Art historian, Painter, University
Stanley Spencer30 June 1891
Painter
Peter Doig17 April 1959
Painter
Edmund Leighton21 September 1852
Painter
John William Godward09 August 1861
Painter
Ford Madox Brown16 April 1821
Painter
Frank Auerbach29 April 1931
Painter
Ben Nicholson10 April 1894
painter, sculptor
George Stubbs24 August 1724
painter, non-fiction writer
Elizabeth Thompson03 November 1846
Painter
George Frederic Watts23 February 1817
Painter, Sculptor
Godfrey Kneller08 August 1646
Painter
Thomas Lawrence13 April 1769
painter
Laura Knight04 August 1877
Painter, Autobiographer
Stanley Donwood29 October 1968
Artist, Writer
Marc Quinn08 January 1964
Artist, Sculptor
Thomas Rowlandson13 June 1756
caricaturist, painter, illustrator, artist,
Nicholas Hilliard1547 AD
painter
Kate Perugini29 October 1839
Painter
Henry Scott Tuke12 June 1858
Painter
Richard Billingham25 September 1970
Photographer
Evelyn De Morgan30 August 1855
Painter
Andy Kershaw09 November 1959
Disc jockey
Eric Ravilious22 June 1903
painter, illustrator
Edward Gordon Craig16 January 1872
Actor, Director, Illustrator, Scenographer,