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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
Thomas Rowlandson
1756 – 1827English artist and caricaturist
AmsterdamCity of WestminsterParis1061 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
Henry Thomas Alken
1785 – 1851British artist
London444 works
Owen Jones
1809 – 1874British architect
City of WestminsterLondon436 works
Mark Catesby
1683 – 1749English naturalist, painter and etcher
England404 works
Walter Crane
1845 – 1915English artist and book illustrator
London356 works
William Jackson Hooker
1785 – 1865English botanist and botanical illustrator
Norwich328 works
Anna Atkins
1799 – 1871English botanist and photographer
Halstead Place310 works
Sawrey Gilpin
1733 – 1807British artist
296 works
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775 – 1851English painter and draftsman
City of WestminsterPragueVienna287 works
John Samuel Pughe
1870 – 1909American illustrator
279 works
Arthur Rackham
1867 – 1939English book illustrator
City of LondonLondon250 works
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723 – 1792English painter
AntwerpBrugesCity of Plymouth245 works
George Romney
1734 – 1802English painter
ParisParmaRome244 works
John Rubens Smith
1775 – 1849American artist
240 works
David Roberts
1796 – 1864Scottish painter
238 works
William Blake
1757 – 1827English poet and artist
Broadwick StreetCity of WestminsterFelpham232 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
James Ward
1769 – 1859English painter and engraver
London203 works
Percy J. Billinghurst
1871 – 1933illustrator
202 works
George Ashdown Audsley
1838 – 1925British-American architect, decorator, organ builder
Scotland201 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
Sir John Everett Millais
1829 – 1896British painter and illustrator
Chamonix-Mont-BlancCity of WestminsterLondon187 works
Paul Sandby
1731 – 1809British artist
183 works
Matthew Digby Wyatt
1820 – 1877British architect and art historian
181 works
Robert Smirke
1752 – 1845English painter and illustrator, specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature
174 works
Thomas Moran
1837 – 1926American artist
Lake Como172 works
Benjamin Robert Haydon
1786 – 1846English painter, specialising in grand historical pictures
City of WestminsterLondon159 works
John Constable
1776 – 1837English painter
City of WestminsterDedhamHampton157 works
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
1872 – 1898British illustrator and author
Brighton and HoveWestminster154 works
Archibald Thorburn
1860 – 1935British wildlife artist
151 works
John Hamilton Mortimer
1740 – 1779British artist
151 works
Thomas Sully
1783 – 1872American painter
BostonLondonPhiladelphia150 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
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
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