- 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. - Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas (born August 3, 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist combining elements of Expressionism with conceptual art into ink and watercolour pieces and oil paints on canvas. Dumas studied at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975. The aim of her work is to show the relationships between art, female models and even pornography. Many of the starting points for her work are polaroid photographs of her friends and lovers, … - 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. - David Cox
David Cox (April 29, 1783 - June 7, 1859) was an English landscape painter. Cox was considered one of the prominent figures of British watercolour painting and at the time was rivalled only by John Constable in his portrayal of nature's moods. Cox was born in Deritend Birmingham, the son of a blacksmith. In around 1798, he was apprenticed to a maker of fancy articles named Fieldler, and soon learnt to paint portrait miniatures. - Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 - 8 August1959), born Elea Namatjira, was one of Australia's most acclaimed visual artists. He was a Western Arrernte man, an Indigenous Australian of the Western MacDonnell Ranges area. Though in his early career he painted a wide variety of subjects, he is best known for his watercolour Australian outback desert landscapes, a style which inspired the Hermannsburg School of Aboriginal art. - John Varley
John Varley (August 17, 1778-November 17, 1842), was an English watercolour painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake, the poet/painter/mystic. They collaborated in 1819-1820 on the book "Visionary Heads", written by Varley and illustrated by Blake. He was the elder brother of Cornelius Varley. He also wrote an astrological text entitled "A Treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy" in 1828. - Thomas Girtin
Thomas Girtin, was an English painter and etcher, who played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form. He was born in Southwark, London, the son of a well-to-do brushmaker of Huguenot descent in. His father died while Thomas was a child, and the widow married a Mr.Vaughan, a pattern-draughtsman. Girtin learnt drawing as a boy (attending classes with Thomas Malton), and was apprenticed to Edward Dayes (1763-1804), a topographical watercolourist. - John Sell Cotman
John Sell Cotman (May 16, 1782 - July 28, 1842), was an artist of the Norwich school and an associate of John Crome. He was born in Norwich, England and worked mainly in watercolour, but also produced architectural etchings. He spent virtually all his life in England, apart from three trips to Normandy financed by rich patrons. He moved to London at the age of sixteen, and was based there for the rest of his life. His sons, Miles Edward Cotman and John Joseph Cotman, … - Paul Sandby
Paul Sandby (1725 (this birth year seems most unlikely – 1730/1 seems more likely)9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the topographical drawing room of the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London in the early 1740s and in 1746 was tasked with mapping the remote Scottish Highlands. - Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings See Van Dyke for other uses of all spellings), (22 March 1599 - 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. - Hans Heysen
Sir Hans Heysen (October 8, 1877-July 2, 1968) was a well-known Australian artist. He was particularly recognised for his watercolours of the Australian bush. He won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting a record nine times. Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen was born in Hamburg, Germany. He migrated to Adelaide in South Australia with his family in 1884 at the age of 6. As a young boy Heysen showed an early interest in art. - Richard Parkes Bonington
Richard Parkes Bonington (October 25, 1802 - September 23, 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter. One of the most influential British artists of his time, the facility of his style was inspired by the old masters, yet was entirely modern in its application. - Edward Wesson
Edward Wesson (1910 - 1983) was an English watercolour artist. His work is known for both its simplicity and boldness, with Wesson's mastery of brushwork, and he is remembered by many painters as a very encouraging teacher. - 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. - William Heaton Cooper
William Heaton Cooper was an English landscape artist who worked predominantly in watercolours. He was born in Coniston in the English Lake District on 6 October 1903 as the third child to Norwegian mother, Mathilde, and the landscape artist Alfred Heaton Cooper. His paintings are mostly of Lake District landscapes and are of an impressionistic style. He died in 1995 and is buried in Grasmere in the Lake District. - Copley Fielding
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855) commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby and famous for his watercolour landscapes. Copley Fielding became at an early age a pupil of John Varley. In 1810 he became an associate exhibitor in the Watercolor Society, in 1813 a full member, and in 1831 president of that body. He also engaged largely in teaching the art, and made ample profits. His death took place at Worthing in March 1855. - Myles Birket Foster
Myles Birket Foster, (February 4 1825 - March 27 1899), was an English illustrator and watercolourist whose landscapes are typical of the Victorian age. He was perhaps the most successful British watercolorist of his generation, in a field crowded with talent. Born in North Shields, he moved to London as a child and became an apprentice wood engraver to Ebenezer Landells. - Carl Larsson
Carl Larsson (May 28, 1853-January 22, 1919) was a Swedish painter and interior designer. The Swedish artist Carl Larsson was born in Gamla stan, the old town in Stockholm. His parents were extremely poor and his childhood was not happy. However, at the age of thirteen his teacher at the school for poor children urged him to apply to the "principskola" of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and he was admitted. During his first years there, Larsson felt socially inferior, … - Lionel Lindsay
Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay was an Australian artist. Lindsay was born in the Victorian town of Creswick, the brother of artist Norman Lindsay and artist and critic Daryl Lindsay. Lionel Lindsay became a pupil-assistant at the Melbourne Observatory (1889-1892) and later studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. Lindsay taught himself etching and engraving in the 1890s while a student, immediately prior to his first trip to Spain and England. - John Crome
John Crome (December 22,1768 - 22 April,1821) was an artist in the Romantic era. Born in the English city of Norwich, John Crome is also known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his son, John Berney Crome, who was also a well-known artist. The son of a weaver, he was apprenticed to a coach painter or sign painter. It is said that he acquired his skills by copying Gainsboroughs and Hobbemas owned by Thomas Harvey of Old Catton, his patron from 1790. - Muirhead Bone
Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March, 1876 - 21 October, 1953) was a Scottish etcher, drypoint and watercolour artist. The son of a printer, Bone was born in Glasgow and trained initially as an architect, later going on to study art at Glasgow School of Art. He began printmaking in 1898, and although his first known print was a lithograph, he is better known for his etchings and drypoints. His subject matter was principally related to landscapes, … - Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon was an English artist, accomplished in Turner manner watercolours. Initially raised in Paris, he moved with his family to Oaklands, an estate near Sedlescombe, East Sussex, in 1832. He attended Harrow School, the École Privat, Geneva, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in mathematics. His father then wanted him to study law, but instead he left England and went to Rome to study music and art, … - Hubert von Herkomer
Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849 - 1914), British painter, was born at Waal, in Bavaria, and eight years later was brought to England by his father, a wood-carver of great ability. He lived for some time at Southampton and in the school of art there began his art training; but in 1866 he entered upon a more serious course of study at the South Kensington Schools, and in 1869 exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy. - Joseph Crawhall
Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913) was an English artist born in Morpeth , Northumberland. He was the fourth child and second son of Joseph Crawhall II and Margaret Boyd. Crawhall specialised in painting animals and birds. In the 1880s and 1890s, his work became associated with the Glasgow Boys. He was strongly influenced by the Impressionists, and, like them, his work was rejected by the Establishment, in his case in the form of the Royal Scottish Academy. - William McTaggart
Sir William McTaggart (1835 - 1910) was a Scottish landscape painter who was influenced by Impressionism. The son of a crofter, McTaggart was born in the small village of Aros in Kintyre. He moved to Edinburgh at the age of 16 and studied at the Trustees' Academy under Robert Scott Lauder. He won several prizes as a student and exhibited his work in the Royal Scottish Academy, becoming a full member of the Academy in 1870. - Louis Haghe
Louis Haghe (1806-1885) was a talented lithographer and watercolour artist. Together with William Day, (1797 - 1845) he formed Day & Haghe: The most famous early Victorian firm of lithographic printing in London in 1829. Day and Haghe printed lithographs dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as hunting scenes, topographical views and genre depictions. In 1838, Day and Haghe were appointed 'Lithographers to the Queen'. - Alison Watt
Alison Watt (born 1957) is a Canadian, writer, and painter. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. Watt studied biology at Simon Fraser University and botany at the University of British Columbia. She has worked as Education Coordinator at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver a tour leader in Central and South America, and a naturalist aboard the west coast schooner "Maple Leaf", sailing among British Columbia's Gulf Islands, … - 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. - Alfons Walde
Alfons Walde (8 February 1891 - 11 December 1958), an Austrian from Kitzbuhel in the Tyrol, was the first artist to successfully bring skiing as a subject into painting. These sporting scenes together with his winter landscapes and farming images, rendered in a unique tempera style with impastose colouring, complemented his other artistic gifts as both an architect and graphic artist. Many of his paintings can be seen in the Museum gallery in Kitzbuhel. - Nicholas Pocock
Nicholas Pocock (March 2, 1740 - March 9, 1821) was a British artist best known for his many detailed paintings of naval battles during the age of sail. Pocock was born in Bristol in 1740, the son of a seaman. He followed his father's profession and was master of a merchant ship by the age of 26. During his time at sea, he became a skilled artist by making ink and wash sketches of ships and coastal scenes for his log books. - Mike Bernard
Mike Bernard (born 1957 in Dover, Kent) is an English painter. His highly textured semi-abstract paintings are often executed in mixed media incorporating collage and acrylics; he also brings an experimental approach to watercolour and oils. Regular subjects include coastal and street scenes in the English West Country and Italy. "What attracts me most is the pattern of buildings, boats and similar features in a scene. - Kenneth Jack
Kenneth Jack AM MBE RWS, (born October 5 1924 - died June 10 2006) was an Australian watercolour artist who specialised in painting the images of an almost forgotten outback life; old mine workings, abandoned ghost towns, decaying farm buildings. He became a professional painter at the age of 39 after giving up his job as senior instructor at the Caulfied Institute of Technology. In 1977 he was elected to The Royal Watercolour Society and in 1982 was awarded the MBE, … - Edmund Blampied
Edmund Blampied (born Jersey 30 March 1886, died Jersey 26 August 1966) was one of the most eminent artists to come from the Channel Islands, yet he received no formal training in art until he was 16 years old. He was noted mostly for his etchings and drypoints published at the height of the print boom in the 1920s, but was also a lithographer, caricaturist, cartoonist, book illustrator and artist in oils, watercolours, silhouettes and bronze. - Tom Scott
Tom Scott RSA (1854-1927) was a painter, primarily a watercolourist born in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. Known as the 'Borders Painter', his historical paintings reflect his lifelong interest in the archaeology and history of the area. His highly accomplished work is mainly depictions of the landscapes of Southern Scotland, and illustrative tableaux derived from local Legend and story. Drawing from both the Arts and Crafts movement and the work of the Romantic School, … - Delphin Enjolras
Delphin Enjolras (May 13, 1857-1945) was a French academic painter. Enjolras painted portraits, nudes, interiors, and used mostly watercolours, oil and pastels. He is best known for his intimate portraits of young women performing mundane activities such as reading or sewing, often by illuminated by lamplight. Perhaps his most famous work is the "Young Woman Reading by a Window" (pictured right). - Abraham Bosse
Abraham Bosse (c.1602-4 - February 14 1676) was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour. - George Price Boyce
George Price Boyce (1826-1897) was a British watercolour painter of landscapes and vernacular architecture in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He was a patron and friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Originally trained as an architect after meeting David Cox, the watercolour landscape painter, in August 1849, he became a painter. - Louise Rayner
Louise Ingram Rayner (June 21, 1832, Matlock Bath - October 8, 1924, St Leonards-on-Sea) was a British watercolor artist. Her parents, Samuel Rayner and Anne Rayner (nee Manser) were both noted artists, the former Samuel having been accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy when he was 15. Four of Louise's sisters - Ann ("Nancy"), Margaret, Rose and Frances - and her brother Richard were also artists. - Achille Devéria
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria was a French painter and lithographer. His father was a civil employee of the navy and student of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Louis Lafitte (1770-1828). In 1822, he began exhibiting at the Paris Salon. At some point, he opened an art school together with his brother Eugène, who was also a painter. - Andrew Pitt
Andrew Pitt is an artist, demonstrator and writer for the Leisure Painter, working in Oil and watercolour. For many years Andrew Pitt painted exclusively in watercolour concentrating on East Anglia landscapes and particularly marine scenes. He now paints in both watercolour and oil and has greatly extended his range of subject matter.
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