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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 Singer Sargent
1856 – 1925American painter
CairoFlorenceJerusalem656 works
Henry Thomas Alken
1785 – 1851British artist
London444 works
Edwin Austin Abbey
1852 – 1911American illustrator and painter
LondonNew HavenPhiladelphia411 works
Peter Paul Rubens
1577 – 1640Flemish painter
AffligemBrusselsCambridgeshire388 works
James Tissot
1836 – 1902French painter and illustrator
LondonParisRamsgate299 works
Vincent van Gogh
1853 – 1890Dutch painter
AntwerpCuesmesLondon289 works
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723 – 1792English painter
AntwerpBrugesCity of Plymouth245 works
George Romney
1734 – 1802English painter
ParisParmaRome244 works
Henri Matisse
1869 – 1954French artist
Bohain-en-VermandoisIssy-les-MoulineauxLondon238 works
Alice Pike Barney
1857 – 1931American painter
LondonParisWashington, D.C.222 works
Benjamin West
1738 – 182018th- and 19th-century English painter
LondonNew HavenNew York City204 works
Thomas Gainsborough
1727 – 1788English portrait and landscape painter
BathIpswichLondon196 works
Anthony van Dyck
1599 – 1641Flemish Baroque artist
AntwerpBlackfriarsParis190 works
Sir John Everett Millais
1829 – 1896British painter and illustrator
Chamonix-Mont-BlancCity of WestminsterLondon187 works
Alexandre Jacovleff
1887 – 1938Russian painter
LondonMoscowSaint Petersburg155 works
Thomas Sully
1783 – 1872American painter
BostonLondonPhiladelphia150 works
Frederic Leighton
1830 – 1896English painter and sculptor
Bezirk MitteBrusselsCity of Westminster148 works
Samuel Howitt
1756 – 1822British artist
147 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
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
David Davies
1864 – 1939Associated with the Heidelberg School, Davies painted soft evening and moonlit views around Templestowe before settling in Cornwall.
Melbourne14 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
Benjamin Duterrau
1767 – 1851Duterrau emigrated to Hobart in 1832 and painted portraits and early history pictures of Tasmania, including images of Aboriginal Tasmanians.
Hobart12 works