List of Scottish artists

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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 jeweller
* George Jamesone (or Jameson, c. 1587–1644), Scotland's first eminent portrait painter
* David Paton, active 1660–1700, painter of miniatures
* François 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[1]
* 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 specialising 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 (née 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 the 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
* John Maclauchlan Milne (1885 - 1957), landscape 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 (1940-2023)
* 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 the 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[2]
* 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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* Art in Scotland
* List of Scottish women artists

## References

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1. ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
2. ^ 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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