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United Kingdom artists
Where artists of this country were born, trained and worked, what they painted and which of their works are in the catalogue. Pick a city, era or genre.
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John Gould
1804 – 1881English ornithologist
1356 works
Alfred Rudolph Waud
1828 – 1891American artist and illustrator
887 works
Leslie Matthew Ward
1851 – 1922British cartoonist
EtonLondon736 works
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833 – 1898British Pre-Raphaelite painter
BirminghamLondonOxford453 works
Kate Greenaway
1846 – 1901British artist
London450 works
Owen Jones
1809 – 1874British architect
City of WestminsterLondon436 works
Walter Crane
1845 – 1915English artist and book illustrator
London356 works
John Samuel Pughe
1870 – 1909American illustrator
279 works
Arthur Rackham
1867 – 1939English book illustrator
City of LondonLondon250 works
Sir John Tenniel
1820 – 1914British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist
City of Westminster227 works
David Young Cameron
1865 – 1945British artist
City of EdinburghGlasgow City210 works
Percy J. Billinghurst
1871 – 1933illustrator
202 works
George Ashdown Audsley
1838 – 1925British-American architect, decorator, organ builder
Scotland201 works
Edward Lear
1812 – 1888British artist, illustrator, author and poet
191 works
Sir John Everett Millais
1829 – 1896British painter and illustrator
Chamonix-Mont-BlancCity of WestminsterLondon187 works
Matthew Digby Wyatt
1820 – 1877British architect and art historian
181 works
Thomas Moran
1837 – 1926American artist
Lake Como172 works
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1872 – 1898British illustrator and author
Brighton and HoveWestminster154 works
Archibald Thorburn
1860 – 1935British wildlife artist
151 works
Charles Conder
1868 – 1909English-born Conder grew up in Sydney and Melbourne, joined the Heidelberg School circle and became famous for delicate, silk-painted fans and beach scenes before moving to Europe.
MelbourneSydney44 works
Tom Roberts
1856 – 1931English-born Roberts emigrated to Melbourne as a teenager and became the central figure of the Heidelberg School, best known for Shearing the Rams and Coming South.
MelbourneSydney26 works
Conrad Martens
1801 – 1878Martens sailed as artist on HMS Beagle with Darwin, settled in Sydney in 1835 and became the leading painter of Sydney Harbour and the colony's landscapes.
Sydney22 works
Julian Ashton
1851 – 1942English-born Ashton founded the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and urged his students to paint local life and scenery outdoors.
MelbourneSydney19 works
Hugh Ramsay
1877 – 1906Raised in Melbourne, Ramsay studied in Melbourne and Paris and painted striking portraits before dying of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight.
Melbourne18 works
Joseph Backler
1813 – 1895Transported to New South Wales as a convict in 1832, Backler became a portrait and landscape painter in Sydney, active from the 1840s to 1880.
Sydney14 works
Walter Withers
1854 – 1914English-born Withers settled in Melbourne in 1883 and painted the farms, creeks and storms of Heidelberg and Eltham as a Heidelberg School landscapist.
Melbourne14 works
Albert Henry Fullwood
1863 – 1930Fullwood moved to Sydney as a young man, illustrated the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, joined the Heidelberg painters at Sirius Cove and served as an Australian war artist.
MelbourneSydney13 works
Robert Hawker Dowling
1827 – 1886Raised in Tasmania, Dowling painted portraits and Aboriginal subjects in Launceston and Melbourne before moving to London in 1857.
LauncestonMelbourne12 works
S. T. Gill
1818 – 1880Gill documented colonial Australia in watercolours and lithographs, from Adelaide streets and exploring expeditions to the Victorian goldfields.
AdelaideMelbourne12 works