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This is a list of notable artists born in Scotland and/or well known for their work in Scotland, arranged alphabetically by surname and by period.
Born before 1700
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- John Alexander
(died 1733), painter and
engraver
- Arnold Bronckhorst
(fl. 1565?1583),
Dutch
painter, the first King's Painter of Scotland
- William Gouw Ferguson
(1632/3 ? c. 1689),
still life
painter, active in France and Italy
- Gawen Hamilton
(1698?1737), painter largely working in London
- George Heriot
(1563?1624), Scottish
goldsmith
and
jeweler
- George Jamesone
(or Jameson, c. 1587?1644), Scotland's first eminent portrait painter
- David Paton
, active 1660?1700, painter of
miniatures
- Francois Quesnel
(c. 1543?1619), Scotland-born French painter
- John Michael Wright
(1617?1694), portrait painter in the
Baroque
style
Born 1700?1799
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- Cosmo Alexander
(c. 1724?1772), noted North American portrait painter
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- David Allan
(1744?1796), painter of historical subjects
- Andrew Bell
(1726?1809), engraver and printer, co-founder of
Encyclopædia Britannica
- John Zephaniah Bell
(1794?1883), painter
- John Brown
(1752?1787), artist
- Thomas Campbell
(1790?1858), sculptor
- Alexander Carse
(c. 1770?1843), painter known for scenes of Scottish life
- Robert Edmonstone
(1794?1834), painter
- Robert Freebairn
(1765?1808), landscape painter
- Andrew Geddes
(1783?1844), portrait painter and etcher
- John Watson Gordon
(1788?1864), painter
- Gavin Hamilton
(1723?1798), Scottish
neoclassical
history painter
- David Ramsay Hay
(1798?1866), artist, interior decorator and
colour theorist
- Andrew Henderson
(1783?1835), portrait painter
- John Kay
(1742?1826),
caricaturist
and engraver
- William Home Lizars
(1788?1859), painter and engraver
- William Miller
(1796?1882), engraver
- Jacob More
(1740?1793), landscape painter
- William Mossman
, 1793?1851, sculptor
- Alexander Nasmyth
(1758?1840), landscape painter
- Patrick Nasmyth
(1787?1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
- Jane Nasmyth
(1788?1867), landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
- Barbara Nasmyth
(1790?1870), landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
- Anne Nasmyth
(1798?1874), landscape painter, daughter of Alexander
- Henry Raeburn
(1756?1823), portrait painter
- Allan Ramsay
(1713?1784), painter
- David Roberts
(1796?1864), painter and
lithographer
- Alexander Robertson
(1772?1841), painter, brother of Andrew and Archibald
- Andrew Robertson
(1777?1845), miniaturist painter
- Archibald Robertson
(1765?1835), painter
- Alexander Runciman
(1736?1785), painter of historical and mythical subjects
- John Runciman
(1744?1768/9), painter known for Biblical and literary scenes, brother of Alexander
- Patrick Syme
(1774?1845), flower-painter and color theorist
- Archibald Skirving
(1749?1819), portrait painter
- Reverend John Thomson
(1778?1840), landscape painter and
minister
of
Duddingston Kirk
- William John Thomson RSA
(1771?1845), portrait and miniaturist painter
- George Watson
(1767?1837), painter
- David Wilkie
(1785?1841), painter
- Hugh William Williams
(1773?1829), landscape painter
- William Yellowlees
(1796?1855), portrait painter
Born 1800?1899
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- John Brown Abercromby
(1843?1929), painter ranging from traditional portraiture to avant-garde modernism
- Patrick Adam
(1852?1929), painter
- Robert Adamson
(1821?1848), photographer
- John Macdonald Aiken
(1880?1961), water-colourist and oil painter
- Lena Alexander
(1899?1983), painter
- Jessie Algie
(1859?1927), flower painter
- Andrew Allan
(1863?1942), lithographer
- Robert Weir Allan
(1851?1942), water-colour and oil painter of landscape and marine subjects
- Marion Ancrum
(fl. 1885?1919), water-colour painter
- Hazel Armour
(1894?1985), sculptor and medallist
- James Arroll
(1862?1936), painter
- George Bain
(1881?1968), art teacher whose writing revived interest in
Celtic
and
Insular art
- James Ballantine
(1806?1877), artist and author
- Penelope Beaton
(1886?1963), painter
- Jemima Blackburn
(1823?1909), painter and illustrator
- John Blair
(c. 1849?1934), painter
- Muirhead Bone
(1876?1953),
etcher
- Phyllis Bone
(1894?1972), sculptor
- William Bonnar
(1800?1863), portraitist and history and
genre painter
- William Brodie
(1815?1881), sculptor
- Robert Brough
(1872?1905), painter
- John Crawford Brown
(1805?1867), landscape artist
- William Kellock Brown
(1856?1934), sculptor
- Elizabeth York Brunton
(1880 ? c. 1960), painter
- Robert Bryden
(1865?1939), artist, sculptor and engraver
- Thomas Stuart Burnett
(1853?1888), sculptor
- Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
(1883?1937), member of the
Scottish Colourists
school
- James Cadenhead
(1858?1927), painter
- Alexander Milne Calder
(1846?1923), sculptor known for the
architectural sculpture
of
Philadelphia City Hall
- Sir
David Young Cameron
(1865?1945), painter and etcher
- Mary Cameron
(1865?1921), portraitist
- George Paul Chalmers
(1833?1878), painter
- Thomas J Clapperton
(1879?1962), sculptor
- James Cowie
(1886?1956), painter
- Hugh Adam Crawford
(1898?1982), painter
- William Crozier
(1893?1930), landscape painter
- Jessie Alexandra Dick
(1896?1976), painter and teacher
- Sir William Fettes Douglas
(1822?1891), painter
- Thomas Millie Dow
(1848?1919), painter, member of the Glasgow Boys school
- Jack M. Ducker
(born 1890), painter specializing in Highland landscapes
- Ian Fairweather
(1891?1974), Scottish/Australian painter
- Christian Jane Fergusson
(1876?1957), Dumfries and Galloway landscape and still-life painter
- John Duncan Fergusson
(1874?1961), member of the
Scottish Colourists
school
- Henry Snell Gamley
(1865?1928), sculptor specialising in
war memorials
and tombs
- Robert Gavin
(1827?1883), painter
- William Geissler
(1894?1963), water-colourist of the natural world
- David Cooke Gibson
(1827?1856), painter and poet
- James William Giles
(1801?1870), Scottish landscape painter
- Sir William George Gillies
(1898?1973), landscape and still-life painter
- Constance Frederica "Eka" Gordon-Cumming
(1837?1924), travel writer and painter
- Mary Grant
1831?1908, sculptor
- Norah Neilson Gray
(1882?1931),
Glasgow School
artist
- Herbert James Gunn
(1893?1964), portraitist
- James Guthrie
(1859?1930), painter
- Maggie Hamilton
(1867?1952), painter
- Peter Alexander Hay
(1866?1952)
- John Henderson
(1860?1924), painter and Director of
Glasgow School of Art
- Joseph Henderson
(1832?1908), Scottish landscape painter
- George Henry
(1858?1943), painter, one of the most prominent of the Glasgow School
- Joseph Morris Henderson
(1863?1936), Scottish landscape painter
- Amelia Robertson Hill
(nee Paton, 1821?1904), sculptor and artist, wife of David Octavius
- David Octavius Hill
(1802?1870), painter and photography pioneer as Hill & Adamson
- Edward Atkinson Hornel
(1864?1933), painter of landscapes, flowers and foliage with children
- Anna Hotchkis
(1885?1985), painter
- John Kelso Hunter
(1802?1873), portrait painter and book author
- George Leslie Hunter
(1877?1931), painter and Scottish Colourist
- Beatrice Huntington
(1889?1988), artist, sculptor and musician
- John Hutchison
, (1832?1910), sculptor
- Alexander Johnston
(1815?1891), painter known for genre and history subjects
- Dorothy Johnstone
(1892?1980), painter of landscapes and portraits, especially children
- Jeka Kemp
(1876?1966), painter
- Annabel Kidston
(1896?1981), painter
- Jessie M King
(1875?1949), illustrator mainly of children's books, designer of jewellery and fabric
- Thomson Kirkwood
(1820?1902), painter of landscapes and rural scenes
- Annie Rose Laing
(1869?1946), painter
- Robert Scott Lauder
(1803?1869), artist and portrait painter
- Andrew Law
(1873?1967), artist and portrait painter
- William Mustart Lockhart
(1855?1941), artist mainly of Glasgow-area landscapes in water-colours
- John Henry Lorimer
(1856?1936), portraitist and genre painter, brother of architect
Robert Lorimer
- Robert Macaulay Stevenson
(1854?1952), painter
- Robert Walker Macbeth
(1848?1910), painter, water-colourist and print-maker
- Henry Macbeth-Raeburn
(1860?1947), painter and print-maker
- Dugald MacColl
(1859?1948)
- Frances MacDonald
(1873?1921),
Glasgow School
artist, sister of Margaret
- Margaret MacDonald
(1865?1933),
Glasgow School
artist, wife of
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- James MacGillivray
(1856?1938), sculptor
- William York Macgregor
(1855?1923), landscape artist
- Esther Blaikie MacKinnon
(1885?1934), painter and engraver
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
(1868?1928), architect, designer, husband of
Margaret MacDonald
- Chica Macnab
(1889?1980), painter and wood engraver
- James Herbert MacNair
(1868?1955),
Glasgow School
artist, designer and teacher
- Harrington Mann
(1864?1937), portraitist and decorative painter, member of the Glasgow Boys movement
- George Manson
(1850?1876), water-colourist
- James McBey
(1883?1959), painter, etcher and war artist
- Horatio McCulloch
(1806?1867), landscape painter
- R. R. McIan
(1803?1856), painter
- William McTaggart
(1835?1910), landscape painter
- Arthur Melville
(1858?1904), painter remembered for Oriental subjects
- James Coutts Michie
(1859?1919), landscape and portrait painter
- Thomas Corsan Morton
(1859?1928), artist known as one of the Glasgow Boys
- James MacLauchlan Nairn
(1859?1904), Glasgow-born painter who influenced late 19th-century New Zealand painting
- Charlotte Nasmyth
(1804?1884), landscape painter, daughter of
Alexander Nasmyth
- Jessie Newbery
(1864?1948),
Glasgow School
artist and embroiderer
- James Campbell Noble
(1846?1913), landscape and marine painter
- Robert Noble
, (1857?1917), painter of landscapes, first President of the
Society of Scottish Artists
- Emily Murray Paterson
(1855?1934), painter
- James Paterson
(1854?1932), landscape and portrait painter associated with The Glasgow Boys movement
- Viola Paterson
(1899?1981), painter, wood engraver
- Sir
Joseph Noel Paton
(1821?1901), painter of religious subjects
- Samuel John Peploe
(1871?1935), member of the Scottish Colourist school of painting
- John Pettie
(1839?1893), painter
- Sir George Pirie
(1863?1946), artist associated with the Glasgow Boys in the 1880s
- John Quinton Pringle
(1865?1925), painter influenced by
Jules Bastien-Lepage
and associated with the Glasgow Boys
- Annie Pirie Quibell
(1862?1927), artist and archaeologist
- Arabella Rankin
(1871 ? c. 1935) painter and coloured woodcut artist
- Anne Redpath
(1895?1967), artist best known for still life works
- Sir George Reid
(1841?1913), landscape and portrait painter
- John Robertson Reid
(1851?1926), painter
- John Stevenson Rhind
(1859?1937), sculptor
- Robert Sivell
(1888?1958), painter
- Sir John Robert Steell
RSA (1804?1891), sculptor, including the statue of Sir Walter Scott at the
Scott Monument
- David Watson Stevenson
(1842?1904), sculptor of portraits and monuments in marble and bronze
- William Grant Stevenson
(1849?1919), sculptor and painter
- David Macbeth Sutherland
(1883?1973), painter of Scottish and Breton landscapes, and of portraits
- Adam Bruce Thomson
(1885?1976),
The Edinburgh School
artist, landscape and portrait painter
- Ottilie Maclaren Wallace
(1875?1947), sculptor
- Edward Arthur Walton
(1860?1922), painter of landscapes and portraits
- Cecile Walton
(1891?1956), painter, illustrator and sculptor
- George Fiddes Watt
(1873?1960), portrait painter and engraver
- James Cromar Watt
(1862?1940), artist, architect and jeweller
- Saul Yaffie
(1898?1957), Jewish artist later known as Paul Jeffay
Born 1900?1949
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- David Annand
(born 1948), sculptor
- Gordon Robert Archibald
(1905?1980), painter
- Eric Auld
(1931?2013), painter
- Robert Bain
(1911?1973), sculptor and art professor in South Africa
- Edward Baird
(1904?1949), painter
- Barbara Balmer
(1929?2017), painter
- Mardi Barrie
(1930?2004), painter
- John Bellany
(1942?2013), painter
- Helen Biggar
(1909?1953), sculptor, film-maker and theatre designer
- Douglas Robertson Bisset
(1908?2000), sculptor
- Sam Black
(1913?1997)
- Robert Henderson Blyth
(1919?1970)
- Leonard Boden
(1911?1999), portrait painter
- Margaret Boden
(1912?2001), painter
- John Boyd
(1925?2018), milliner
- Mary Syme Boyd
(1910?1997), artist and sculptor
- Jimmy Boyle
(born 1944), sculptor, author and convicted murderer
- Mark Boyle
(1934?2005)
- Howard Butterworth
, painter working in
Aberdeenshire
since the 1960s
- John Byrne
(born 1940)
- W. Lindsay Cable
(1900?1949), illustrator for
Punch
and Enid Blyton
- Robert Colquhoun
(1914?1962), painter and print-maker
- Henry Robertson Craig
(1916?1984) landscape and flower painter
- Victoria Crowe
(born 1945)
- Richard Demarco
(born 1930), artist and promoter of visual and performing arts
- David Abercrombie Donaldson
(1916?1996), painter and limner to Her Majesty The Queen
- Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay
(1902?1968), sculptor and modeller
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
(1925?2006), sculptor and installation artist
- Hannah Frank
(1908?2008), artist and sculptor
- Alison Cornwall Geissler
MBE, (1907?2011), glass engraver
- Marianne Grant
(1921?2007), artist
- Tom Gourdie
(1913?2005), artist
- Alasdair Gray
(1934?2019), artist and writer
- Thomas Symington Halliday
(1902?1998), painter and sculptor
- Alison Kinnaird
M.B.E (born 1949), glass artist, musician, teacher and writer
- Hew Lorimer
(1907?1993), sculptor and brother of architect
Robert Lorimer
- Edwin G Lucas
(1911?1990), painter
- Robert MacBryde
(1913?1966), painter and theatre-set designer
- Hamish MacDonald
(1935?2008), artist
- Rory McEwen
(1932?1982), artist and musician
- George McGavin
(1915?2004), painter
- William MacTaggart
(1903?1981), landscape painter
- John Maxwell
(1905?1962), painter of landscapes and imaginative subjects
- David Michie
(1928?2015), painter
- James Morrison
(1932?2020), landscape painter
- John Lowrie Morrison
(born 1948), expressionist oil painter of Scottish landscapes
- Alberto Morrocco
(1917?1998), artist
- Eduardo Paolozzi
(1924?2005), sculptor
- James McIntosh Patrick
(1907?1998), painter of landscapes and portraits
- Ronald Rae
(born 1946), granite sculptor and artist
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- Pat Semple
(1939?2021), landscape artist
- Pamela So
(1947?2010), multimedia artist and photographer
- Ancell Stronach
(1901?1981), artist
- Alan Sutherland
(1931?2019), portrait painter
- Alasdair Taylor
(1934?2007), sculptor
- Sylvia Wishart
(1936?2008),
Orcadian
landscape artist
- George Wyllie
MBE (1921?2012), sculptor known for public art
Born 1950?1999
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- Crawfurd Adamson
(born 1953), figurative artist
- Charles Avery
(born 1973), artist
- David Batchelor
(born 1955)
- Karla Black
(born 1972), sculptor nominated for 2011 Turner Prize
- Martin Boyce
(born 1967), sculptor
- Hugh Buchanan
(born 1958), water-colourist
- Roderick Buchanan
(born 1965), artist working in film and photography
- Paul Carter
(1970?2006) artist known for constructions
- Stephen Conroy
(born 1964)
- Andrew Cranston
(born 1969), painter
- Ken Currie
(born 1960), English-born member of New Glasgow Boys
- Helen Denerley
(born 1956), sculptor often reusing scrap
- Alan Dimmick
(born 1956), photographer of the Glasgow art scene.
- Helen Douglas (book artist)
(born 1952), book artist
- Kate Downie
(born 1958), painter and print-maker
- Erica Eyres
(born 1980), Canadian-born artist
- Lizzie Farey
(born 1962), willow sculptor and artist
- Michael Fullerton
(born 1971), portrait painter based in London
- Anya Gallaccio
(born 1963), creator of minimalist installations
- Douglas Gordon
(born 1966), winner of 1996 Turner Prize
- Andrew Grassie
(born 1966), painter in
tempera
- Claire Harrigan
(born 1964), painter
- Peter Howson
(born 1958), painter and official war artist
- Richard Johnson
(born 1966), Scotland-born and educated war artist
- Anna King
(born 1984), painter
- Henry Kondracki
(born 1953), painter
- David Mach
(born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
- John McKenna
(born 1964), public artist, statue and monument creator
- Abigail McLellan
(1969?2009), artist
- Susan Philipsz
OBE (born 1965), sound installation artist, winner of 2010 Turner Prize
- Andy Scott
(born 1964), figurative sculptor
- Lucy Skaer
(born 1975), sculptor and painter
- Carol Rhodes
(1959?2018), painter
- Evlynn Smith
(1962?2003), artist, designer and furniture maker
- Alexander Stoddart
(born 1959), neoclassical sculptor
- Thomson & Craighead
(Alison Craighead born 1971), works with video and internet
- Jack Vettriano
(born 1951), painter
- Alison Watt
(born 1965), painter
Born 2000 and after
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See also
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References
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- ^
Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607?1896
. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
- ^
David Buckman (1998).
Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L
. Art Dictionaries Ltd.
ISBN
0 95326 095 X
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