- Henry Moore
Henry Moore (1831-95) was an English marine and landscape painter, a brother of Albert Joseph Moore, born in York. He was the pupil of his father, William Moore, and studied also at the York School of Design and the Royal Academy schools. At first an excellent animal and landscape painter, he gave himself after 1857 almost entirely to marine subjects. In rendering of wave movement, in veracity of color and texture, and in subtle atmospheric effects he has few rivals. - David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. - Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July, 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). She has succeeded in equalling, if not surpassing, Damien Hirst among the YBAs in terms of notoriety among the general public. A drunken outburst on a Channel 4 TV discussion, and "My Bed" — an installation in the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition, … - Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was the most important and influential of 18th century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769. - Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people. He was born in Guildford, near London, and went to the Royal College of Art. However, in 1991, the tutors refused to give him the final degree because of his show, called "Cave", which consisted of a whitewashed studio space, … - John Constable
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". His most famous paintings include "Dedham Vale" of 1802 and "The Hay Wain" of 1821. - Mary Fedden
Mary Fedden (born 14 August 1915 in Bristol) is a British artist. She is among Britain's finest and best loved contemporary painters. - John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 - August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. - Elizabeth Blackadder
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, DBE, RA (born 1931) is a Scottish painter and printmaker. She is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. Born in Falkirk, she studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art, where she lectured from 1962 until her retirement in 1986. Her early works are principally landscapes, influenced by her visits to Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia. - Norman Rosenthal
Sir Norman Rosenthal (born 1944) is a British curator. The child of Jewish refugees from Nazi occupied Europe, Rosenthal grew up in North London. After studying history at the University of Leicester he took a job for an art dealer and for a time was Exhibitions Officer at the Institute of Contemporary Arts where he promoted new work from Germany. In 1979 he was appointed Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy. - Edward Bawden
Edward Bawden CBE RA (1903-1989) was a British painter, illustrator and graphic artist. During the Second World War, Edward Bawden served as one of the official war artists for Britain. He made many evocative watercolor paintings recording the war effort in Iraq. His paintings show the unique life led by the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq, particularly their majestic dwellings made of reeds. He was also famous for his prints, book covers, posters, … - Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (April 13, 1769 - January 7, 1830), was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits. He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Thomas was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim speeches from Milton. In 1779 the elder Lawrence had to leave Devizes, … - William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 - 7 September 1910) was a British painter. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Hunt's intended middle name was "Hobman", which he disliked intensely. He chose to call himself Holman when he discovered that his middle name had been misspelled this way after a clerical error at his wedding at the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Ewell. - Terry Frost
Sir Terry Frost (born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost was an English artist noted for his abstracts. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, in 1915, he did not become an artist until he was in his 30s. During his army service in World War II, he met and was taught by Adrian Heath while a prisoner of war. Subsequently, he attended Camberwell School of Art and the St Ives School of Art. In 1951, he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. - John Russell
John Russell was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques. Born in Guildford, Surrey, he trained under the tutelage of Francis Cotes RA, one of the pioneers of English pastel painting, and – like Cotes – became an admirer of the pastel drawings of Rosalba Carriera. Russell set up his own studio in 1767. Although nominally based in London, Russell travelled extensively around Britain, … - Sandra Blow
Sandra Blow studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1941 to 1946, at the Royal Academy Schools from 1946 to 1947, and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome from 1947 to 1948. She travelled to Spain and France in the late 1940s, worked in Cornwall for a year from 1957 to 1958 and went on to teach at the Royal College of Art from 1960. An abstract painter who has also used materials such as polyethylene, and willow cane to construct pictures. - Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 - 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. - Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (January 8, 1836, Dronrijp, the Netherlands.- June 25, 1912 Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the finest and most distinctive of the Victorian painters. Dutch born, he moved to London in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. He was a classical-subject painter and became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, … - Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the "Turner Prize". Whiteread is one of the so-called Young British Artists, and exhibited at the Royal Academy's "Sensation" exhibition in 1997. She is probably best known for "Ghost", a large plaster cast of the inside of a room in a Victorian house, … - Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton (born February 24 1922) is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled "Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?", produced for the "This is Tomorrow" exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by some critics and historians to be the first work of Pop Art. - John Martin
John Martin (July 19, 1789-February 17, 1854), English painter, was born at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a quarrel the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed under Bonifacio Musso, an Italian artist, father of the enamel painter Charles Musso. With his master, Martin removed from Newcastle to London in 1806, where he married at the age of nineteen, … - Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. - Arthur M. Sackler
Arthur M. Sackler was an American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D. In 1960 Sackler started publication of "Medical Tribune", a weekly medical newspaper. He established the Laboratories for Therapeutic Research in 1938. - George Henry
George Henry (1858-1943) was a Scottish painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School. He was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, later in Macgregor's studio, but learned most from his nature studies at Kirkcudbright. He was influenced also by his collaboration with E. A. Hornel in such works as "The Druids" (1887), Grosvenor Gallery, London. - Joseph Wright Of Derby
Joseph Wright (September 3, 1734 - August 29, 1797), styled Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter - he has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the industrial revolution." - George Stubbs
George Stubbs (born in Liverpool on August 25, 1724 - died in London July 10, 1806) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Stubbs was the son of a currier. Information on his life up to age thirty-five is sparse, relying almost entirely on notes made by fellow artist Ozias Humphry towards the end of Stubbs's life. Stubbs was briefly apprenticed to a Lancashire painter and engraver named Hamlet Winstanley, … - Hugh Casson
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, KCVO, RA, RDI, (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and influential writer and broadcaster on 20th century design. He is particularly noted for his role as director of architecture at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank. Casson's family originated from Wales. He was the nephew of actor, Sir Lewis Casson. Hugh Casson studied at Eastbourne College in East Sussex, then St John's College, … - Nicholas Grimshaw
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE (born 9 October, 1939) is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including the international railway terminal at London's Waterloo Station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. In late 2004, he was elected President of the Royal Academy. - Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter. Born in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, he grew up in Newport and was tutored by Cosmo Alexander, a Scottish painter. Stuart moved to Scotland with Alexander in 1771 to finish his studies. His mentor died in Edinburgh the following year. Attempting briefly and without success to earn a living as a painter, he returned to Newport in 1773. - John Frederick Lewis
John Frederick Lewis (July 14, 1805 - August 15, 1876) was an English painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes and often worked in watercolour. Lewis lived in Spain between 1832 and 1834. He lived in Cairo between 1841 and 1850, where he made numerous sketches that he turned into paintings even after his return to England in 1851. He lived in Walton-on-Thames until his death. - Thomas Rowlandson
Thomas Rowlandson was an English caricaturist. He was born in Old Jewry, in the City of London, the son of a tradesman or city merchant. On leaving school he became a student at the Royal Academy. At the age of sixteen, he lived and studied for a time in Paris, and he later made frequent tours to the Continent, enriching his portfolios with numerous jottings of life and character. - George Romney
George Romney (December 26, 1734 - November 15, 1802) was a noted English portrait painter. He was born on Boxing Day 1734 in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, and apprenticed to his father as a cabinet-maker. In 1755 he went to Kendal to learn painting from a Cumberland artist by the name of Christopher Steele, and within two years was becoming well-known as a portraitist. He fell ill during his apprenticeship and was nursed back to health by Mary Abbott, … - Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE FRA (March 7 1924 - April 22 2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist. Paolozzi was born in Leith in north Edinburgh, the eldest son of Italian immigrants. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1943, briefly at the St Martin's School of Art in 1944, and then at the Slade School of Art in London from 1944 to 1947, after which he worked in Paris, France. - R. B. Kitaj
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (born October 29, 1932) is an American-born artist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied at Cooper Union in New York City and, after a short stint in the United States Army, at The Ruskin (1958-59) and the Royal College of Art (1959-61) in London. He subsequently settled in England, and through the 1960s taught at the Ealing Art College, the Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991. - Kyffin Williams
Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA (May 9 1918 – September 1 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey. He was born in Llangefni, Anglesey into an old landed Anglesey family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School before joining the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers as a lieutenant in 1937. After failing a British Army medical examination in 1941 (due to epilepsy), doctors advised him to become an artist, … - Ron Mueck
Ron Mueck was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1958. Significantly, his parents, originally both from Germany, were toymakers. From 1979-83 he worked in children's television. He moved to London in 1986, working on special effects for film and television. He collaborated with David Bowie on the film Labyrinth and also worked for Jim Henson on Sesame Street and The Muppets . - Mat Collishaw
Mat Collishaw is an artist based in London. Collishaw attended Goldsmiths College of Art, London (1986-9), alongside the likes of Damien Hirst and other prominent YBAs. He has shown work internationally in many important exhibitions including “Freeze” at Surrey Docks in London, “Controlled” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, “The Parable Show” at Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich, … - William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. - John Lee
John Lee (active 1850-1870) was a British painter, part of a group of Liverpool artists, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style. Very little is known about Lee's life and only four paintings have been attributed to him with any certainty. He exhibited at the Liverpool Academy from 1859-67 and at the Royal Academy from 1863-67. - Edward Poynter
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet, KB (March 20 1836 - July 26 1919) was a British painter, designer, draughtsman and art administrator. The son of Ambrose Poynter, an architect, he was born in Paris. He was educated at Ipswich School and Brighton College before studying in London, in Rome (where he became a great admirer of Michelangelo) and with Charles Gleyre in Paris (where he met James McNeill Whistler).
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