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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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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 – 1903American painter
ParisValparaísoWest Point704 works
John Singer Sargent
1856 – 1925American painter
CairoFlorenceJerusalem656 works
Alphonse Legros
1837 – 1911French painter, etcher and sculptor
AmsterdamDijonParis487 works
Vincent van Gogh
1853 – 1890Dutch painter
AntwerpCuesmesLondon289 works
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775 – 1851English painter and draftsman
City of WestminsterPragueVienna287 works
Charles Hamilton Smith
1776 – 1859British artist and naturalist
254 works
David Roberts
1796 – 1864Scottish painter
238 works
David Young Cameron
1865 – 1945British artist
City of EdinburghGlasgow City210 works
John Sell Cotman
1782 – 1842British artist
LondonNorwich196 works
Thomas Gainsborough
1727 – 1788English portrait and landscape painter
BathIpswichLondon196 works
Edward Lear
1812 – 1888British artist, illustrator, author and poet
191 works
Joseph Pennell
1857 – 1926American artist and author
LondonNetherlandsZaandam184 works
Paul Sandby
1731 – 1809British artist
183 works
Charles François Daubigny
1817 – 1878French painter
LondonParis172 works
Thomas Moran
1837 – 1926American artist
Lake Como172 works
John Constable
1776 – 1837English painter
City of WestminsterDedhamHampton157 works
Thomas Sully
1783 – 1872American painter
BostonLondonPhiladelphia150 works
William Simpson
1823 – 1899Scottish artist and war correspondent
148 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
John Glover
1767 – 1849An established English landscape painter who emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1831, Glover is often called the father of Australian landscape painting.
Launceston44 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
Eugene von Guérard
1811 – 1901Austrian-born von Guérard worked in Australia from 1852 to 1882 and painted finely detailed landscapes of Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania in the Düsseldorf tradition.
Melbourne20 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
David Davies
1864 – 1939Associated with the Heidelberg School, Davies painted soft evening and moonlit views around Templestowe before settling in Cornwall.
Melbourne14 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
George Grosvenor Thomas
1856 – 1923Sydney-born Grosvenor Thomas moved to England and painted impressionist landscapes and still lifes.
Sydney13 works