- William Turner
William Turner was an English painter who specialised watercolour landscape views, strongly rooted in Oxfordshire and the city of Oxford. He was a contemporary of the more famous artist J. M. W. Turner and his style was not dissimilar. He is often known as William Turner of Oxford or just Turner of Oxford to disambiguate him from his more well-known namesake. Many of Turner's paintings depicted the countryside around Oxford.
- Nicholas Serota
Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota (born April 27, 1946) is a curator, and is currently Director of the Tate Gallery, the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. As such he is often involved in controversy. He was the driving force behind the creation of Tate Modern.
- 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.
- Martin Creed
Martin Creed (born 1968) is an English artist noted for his works which hark back to the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. Creed was born in Wakefield and brought up in Glasgow. He studied art at the Slade School of Art in University College, London from 1986 to 1990. Since 1987, Creed has numbered each of his works, and most of his titles relate in a very direct way to the piece's substance.
- Henry Tate
Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet (March 11, 1819 - December 5, 1899) was an English sugar merchant from Chorley, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery in London. Tate was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the son of a clergyman. When he was 13, he became a grocer's apprentice in Liverpool. After a seven-year apprenticeship, he was able to set up his own shop. His business was successful, and grew to a chain of six stores by the time he was 35.
- J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism.
- Carl Andre
Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist. Andre was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated in Quincy public schools and at Philips Academy, Andover, where he became friends with Hollis Frampton and Michael Chapman. Andre served in the U.S. Army in North Carolina from 1955-56. He moved to New York City and in 1958 met Frank Stella in whose studio he developed a series of wooden "cut" sculptures.
- Patrick Heron
Patrick Heron, was an English painter, writer and designer, based in St. Ives, Cornwall.
- Julian Opie
Julian Opie (born 1958) is a leading contemporary English artist, who uses computerised imagery. He is a former trustee of the Tate Gallery.
- John Rothenstein
Sir John Knewstub Maurice Rothenstein CBE (1901-1992) was an English art historian. He grew up in London the son of Sir William Rothenstein. The family was connected to the Bloomsbury Set. John Rothenstein studied at Oxford University and became friends with T. E. Lawrence. From 1938 to 1964 he was director of the Tate Gallery.
- Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. The majority of his works feature abstract expressionist-influenced brushwork in white or off-white paint on square canvas or metal surfaces. In 1992, a major touring retrospective of Ryman's paintings was mounted by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery.
- Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker (born 1956) is an English sculptor and installation artist. She is generally associated with Britart. She was born in Cheshire; she studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (1974-75) and Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975-78). She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton in 2000. In 1997, she was a Turner Prize nominee.
- Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.
- Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae (born 1963) is a British artist and one of the "Young British Artists" (YBAs). She is a painter. She was born in Hong Kong and moved to England in 1970. She attended Croydon College of Art (1983-84) and Goldsmiths College (1984-1987). She was one of the artists in the seminal "Freeze" exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. Her work was subsequently bought by Charles Saatchi and shown in the major 1997 "Sensation" exhibition, …
- Alan Bowness
Sir Alan Bowness is a British curator and museum director. Between 1980 and 1988, Bowness was Director of the Tate Gallery realising the long desired expansion of the site at Millbank with the creation of the Clore Wing dedicated to the work of J.M.W. Turner. Bowness was also responsible for the creation of the outpost Tate Liverpool, both projects being achieved through gifts from charitable trusts. At a time when the public grant to the Tate had been capped, …
- Peter Doig
Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. He´s one of Europe's most expensive living painters.
- 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.
- 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.
- William Scott
William Scott was a British artist known for still life and abstract painting. Born in Greenock, Scotland, son of an Irish father and Scottish mother, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1958. Retrospective at the Tate Gallery 1972. Literature: Monaograph y Norbert Lynton published by Thames & Hudson.
- 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).
- Tomma Abts
Tomma Abts (born 1967) is a German artist and abstract painter living and working in London, England. Tomma Abts was born in Kiel, Germany. She is the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, having been selected for her solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, and greengrassi, London.
- Angus Fairhurst
Angus Fairhurst (born 1966) is an English artist working in installation, photography and video. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). Fairhurst was born in Pembury, Kent. He studied at Canterbury Art College 1985-1986 and graduated in 1989 in Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, where he was in the same year as Damien Hirst. The two became close friends and have collaborated on many projects.
- Sandy Nairne
Alexander Robert "Sandy" Nairne is a British museum director and writer and since 2002 Director of the National Portrait Gallery. The son of a senior civil servant, Nairne studied at University College, Oxford in the early 1970s and rowed for the Oxford University second crew Isis. Nairne came into contact with Nicholas Serota working at the Museum of Modern Art, …
- William Rothenstein
Sir William Rothenstein, (January 29 1872 - February 14 1945), was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on art. He was born in Bradford and studied at the Slade School of Art (his teachers including Alphonse Legros) and in Paris, where he met and was encouraged by Rex Whistler and Edgar Degas. He became known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and was an official war artist in both World War I and World War II.
- Malcolm Morley
Malcolm Morley (born June 7, 1931) is an English-born artist now living in the United States. Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison. After release, he studied art first at the Camberwell School of Arts and then at the Royal College of Art (1955-1957), where his fellow students included Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach.
- Jim Ede
Harold Stanley Ede (7 April 1895 - 15 March 1990) also known as 'Jim' Ede, was a British collector of art and friend to artists. Ede studied painting at Newlyn Art School between 1912-14 when he was called up in World War I. On returning from the Western Front he continued his studies at the Slade School of Art. In 1921 Ede got a job as assistant curator at the Tate Gallery in London whilst continuing to study part time at the Slade.
- Mary Kelly
Mary Kelly, American conceptual artist, teacher and writer. Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, she studied fine art and music at the College of Saint Teresa, and fine art and aesthetics at the Pius XII Institute, Florence, Italy (MA 1965). She later received a postgraduate certificate in painting at St. Martin’s School of Art, London. From 1968 Kelly worked in London as artist, teacher, curator, editor and writer.
- Mark Tobey
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 - April 24, 1976) was an American Abstract Expressionism Painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the others. Friend and mentor, Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions.
- Bryan Robertson
Bryan Robertson OBE (born April 1 1925 in London – died November 18 2002) was an English curator and arts manager described by "Studio International" as "the greatest Director the Tate Gallery never had". Robertson was educated at Battersea Grammar School and for three years curator at a gallery in Cambridge. From 1952 to 1968, as curator of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, …
- Paul Myners
Paul Myners is a London businessman, Chairman of the Guardian Media Group, publisher of "The Guardian" and "The Observer" newspapers, and Land Securities Group, Europe's largest quoted real estate group, and former Chairman of Marks and Spencer. He also holds a number of other important posts, including Chair of the Tate Gallery and The Low Pay Commission. He has compiled influential reports on institutional investment, …
- 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.
- John Wells
John Wells was an artist and maker of relief constructions, associated with the St Ives group. He was born in London, and trained as a doctor at University College Hospital. He learned to paint at evening classes at St Martin’s School of Art. From 1936 to 1945, he worked as a General Practitioner for the Scilly Isles. After the Second World War he decided to pursue a full-time career as an artist.
- Georgina Starr
Georgina Starr (born 1968) is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists. Georgina Starr was born in Leeds and now lives and works in London. She attended the Slade School of Art (1990-92) and the Rijksakademie Van Beelende Kunst, Amsterdam (1993-4). She works with found and collected objects to construct autobiographical installations. She has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions, including the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, …
- Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning (born August 25 1910) is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.
- Charles Saumarez Smith
Dr. Charles Robert Saumarez Smith (born May 28, 1954 in Redlynch, England) is an English art historian and museum director. He is director of the National Gallery and the secretary-designate of the Royal Academy of Arts, having announced his resignation from the National Gallery in March 2007. He was formerly President of the Museums Association. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London.
- James Barry
James Barry (October 11, 1741-February 22, 1806), Irish painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled "The Progress of Human Culture" in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts. Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, …
- Rebecca Warren
Rebecca Warren (born 1965 is a British sculptor, and a nominee for the 2006 Turner Prize. Rebecca Warren was born in London. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, University of London receiving a BA (Hons) (1989-92) before taking her MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art, London (1992-93). She then took on an artist in residence place at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, Oxford (1993 - 1994).
- Reg Butler
Reginald Cotterell Butler (28 April 1913 - 23 October 1981) was an English sculptor. He studied and lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1937 to 1939. After winning the 'Unknown Political Prisoner' competition in 1953 he became one of the best known sculptors during the 1950's and 1960's, and taught at the Slade School of Art. His later work is sometimes derided and consists of lifelike models of female figures, …
- David Hall
David Hall (born in 1937) is a significant British video artist. He began as a sculptor exhibiting internationally, winning 1st prize at the Paris Biennale in 1965. In 1966 he was represented in the seminal minimal art show, Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum, New York. In 1967 he began working with photography and film and in 1969-70 video (the technology then becoming available outside the broadcast industry).
- Paul Graham
Paul Graham (born 1956) is a British artist photographer. His work operates in the territory traditionally reserved for documentary photography but re-interprets and subverts that genre through exploring new visual approaches to photographic representation of the world. His subjects have included the conflict in Northern Ireland, the trauma of history in Western Europe and Japan, and more recently the social fabric of the United States.