1. Alexander Cooper (1609)

British Artist

Seventeenth-century English painter of Baroque miniatures. His work was very rare. The best-known series included Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth of Bohemia.

2. Grinling Gibbons (1648)

British Artist

Dutch-British sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, such as St Paul's Cathedral and Blenheim Palace.

3. George Stubbs (1724)

British Artist

Remembered for his oil paintings depicting horses and other animals, this eighteenth-century English artist is notable for works such as Whistlejacket (1762), Portrait of a Large Dog (1772), and The...

4. Thomas Banks (1735)

British Artist

English sculptor who made engravings and marble bas relief pieces. He sculpted Achilles Mourning the Loss of Briseis.

5. Samuel Palmer (1805)

British Artist

Landscape painter, etcher, and printmaker who was a key figure in the Romanticism movement in Britain. He was known for his visionary pastoral paintings.

6. Richard Dadd (1817)

British Artist

Victorian-era painter known for his supernatural subjects, such as faeries, and for his obsessive attention to detail. His watercolor "The Artist's Halt in the Desert" was thought lost until "Antiques...

7. Branwell Brontë (1817)

British Artist

English painter and poet who often wrote with his sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne on work that included number 1-3 of The Young Men's Magazine in 1830.

8. Felix Moscheles (1833)

British Artist

Rose to fame as the First President of the London Esperanto Club. He was a pacifist and an internationalist.

9. Percival Ball (1845)

British Artist

English sculptor who worked in Australia and was known for his use of marble. He was commissioned to create a facade for the national gallery at Sydney.

10. Allen Hutchinson (1855)

British Artist

English sculptor known for his busts of well known people. He made the plaster carving Profile of a Young Hawaiian Girl in 1892.

11. Jessie Lipscomb (1861)

British Artist

English sculptor who made terra-cotta pieces, such as Sans Souci, and a bust of the Italian model Giganti.

12. Harold Parker (1873)

British Artist

British-born sculptor who was raised in Australia but worked mainly in England. He sculpted Ariadne and Prometheus Bound.

13. Kathleen Scott (1878)

British Artist

English sculptor whose work was put on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

14. Augustus John (1878)

British Artist

Post-Impressionist painter known for his portraits of Colonel T. E. Lawrence and William Butler Yeats. He was the subject of the BBC documentary, 'The Mountain That Had to Be Painted,' from...

15. Stuart Semple (1980)

British Artist

Contemporary British artist and curator who is known for his large scale canvas work which incorporated both text and found imagery. 

16. Vanessa Bell (1879)

British Artist

English painter and interior designer who was a member of the Bloomsbury group and was the sister of writer Virginia Woolf.

17. Ralph Chubb (1892)

British Artist

British poet, print-maker, and artist who became known for An Appendix, The Cloud & the Voice, and other works. Two of his literary works -- The Day of St. Alban...

18. Stanley Spencer (1891)

British Artist

British modernist and Neo-Primitive artist remembered for Biblical images set in his hometown of Cookham, England. His paintings include Swan Upping at Cookham and The Resurrection, Cookham.

19. Rayner Hoff (1894)

British Artist

Sculptor who worked in Australia and is known for his war memorial work, such as the sculptures on the ANZAC War Memorial in Sydney.

20. Damien Hirst (1965)

British Artist

Unconventional artist and foremost member of the Young British Artists. Known for his death-themed works such as "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living," which was...

21. Chris Ofili (1968)

British Artist

English artist best known for incorporating elephant dung into his paintings. His paintings often attempt to use humor to draw attention to racial and sexual stereotypes.

22. Ronald Searle (1920)

British Artist

British cartoonist arguably most recognized for his Molesworth series. He was a two-time winner of the National Cartoonist's Society Advertising and Illustration Award (1959; 1965).

23. Anthony Caro (1924)

British Artist

English sculptor known for his abstract style and use of industrial items in his work. His style was of the modernist school.

24. Grenville Davey (1961)

British Artist

English sculptor who won the 1992 Turner Prize for his work HAL, made from two abstract steel objects. He also made a human-sized gold table.

25. Gillian Ayres (1930)

British Artist

English painter who produced paintings such as Anthony and Cleopatra in 1982 and A Midsummer Night in 1990 and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in...

26. Howard Hodgkin (1932)

British Artist

Painter and printmaker known for semi-abstract, bold-colored works such as "Dinner at Smith Square" from 1979.

27. John Hoyland (1934)

British Artist

Associated with Post-Painterly Abstraction, Color Field painting, and Lyrical Abstraction. His 2007 work, "Lebanon," was a prime example of his work.

28. Gerald Scarfe (1936)

British Artist

English cartoonist who has worked as a graphics artist for the music group Pink Floyd, an illustrator for The New Yorker, and an editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times.

29. Tommy Steele (1936)

British Artist

English pop idol who earned top five singles with "Singing the Blues," "Water, Water," and "Neon Sign."

30. Barry Flanagan (1941)

British Artist

Sculptor whose bronze hare statues, "Large Left-Handed Drummer" and "Large Mirror Nijinski," were erected in New York's Union Square and in Cologne's Skulpturen Park Köln.

31. Anthony Christian (1945)

British Artist

One of the youngest individuals admitted to study the Old Masters at the National Gallery in London. He began when he was 10.

32. Maggi Hambling (1945)

British Artist

British contemporary painter and sculptor who made the famous work Scallop, a steel sculpture on Aldeburgh beach.

33. Tony Cragg (1949)

British Artist

British-born sculptor and art professor who first exhibited his work at the Lisson Gallery in 1979. He also served as director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, having begun teaching there in...

34. Antony Gormley (1950)

British Artist

Artist best known for his installation piece "Angel of the North" from 1998, as well as "Another Place" for Crosby Beach near Liverpool.

35. Dennis Elliott (1950)

British Artist

Former drummer with the rock band Foreigner who changed careers and became a sculptor.

36. Cornelia Parker (1956)

British Artist

Sculptor and installation artist known for "Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" from 1991, "Subconscious of a Monument," and other works. Her 1995 "The Maybe" was a performance piece featuring...

37. Stephen Silver (1972)

British Artist

Though he was also employed by Warner Brothers, this animator is perhaps most famous for his work on the Disney Channel series Kim Possible and the Nickelodeon series Danny Phantom.

38. Joel Veitch (1974)

British Artist

Famous for his work on the B3ta online humor community, Veitch is also known for maintaining a popular animation and music website called RatherGood.com. Apart from his work as an...

39. Holly Johnson (1960)

British Artist

Lead singer of the British new wave band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the group that released the hit single "Relax" in 1983.

40. Grayson Perry (1960)

British Artist

Known for his pottery and tapestries, this cross-dressing visual artist often included images of his female identity, "Claire," in his artwork.

41. Matthew Crabb (1983)

British Artist

Known for his chainsaw-carved wooden sculptures, this British artist is particularly famous for works such as "Duelling Dinosaurs – Raptor v. Brachiasaurus" and a nine-meter-tall wooden statue of the Virgin...

42. Clarice Cliff (1899)

British Artist

Apprentice potter and eventual ceramic artist who is known for Crocus flower design among several others. She gained notoriety posthumously when the original Clarice Cliff Collectors Club was formed to...

43. Marc Quinn (1964)

British Artist

British artist who has been a part of the group Young British Artists. He sculpted the piece entitled Alison Lapper Pregnant and Self.

44. Lady Sarah Chatto (1964)

British Artist

Member of the royal family of England. She is the only daughter of Princess Margaret and the 1st Earl of Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones. In her free time she enjoys painting, and has...

45. Arthur Gaskin (1862)

British Artist

Arthur Joseph Gaskin RBSA was an English illustrator painter teacher and designer of jewellery and enamelwork. Gaskin and his wife Georgie Gaskin were members of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen...

46. Marc Potts (1991)

British Artist

Marc Potts is a British artist and illustrator working within the fantasy myth and folklore genres using both traditional technique and digital art. He lives close to the edge of...

47. Elizabeth Thompson (1846)

British Artist

Elizabeth Southerden Thompson Lady Butler was a British painter one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings especially military battle scenes at the end of that...

48. Philip Firsov (1985)

British Artist

Philip Firsov — British painter and sculptor of Russian origin. Born in Moscow in the family of two Russian composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov he left Russia in the...

49. Nicolas Ruston (1975)

British Artist

Nicolas Ruston is a British artist “most recognised for his silicone and mixed media works which explore the notion of artificial manipulation. Ruston's work is concerned with collective beliefs and...

50. Alfred Gilbert (1854)

British Artist

Sir Alfred Gilbert was an English sculptor and goldsmith who enthusiastically experimented with metallurgical innovations. He was a central — if idiosyncratic — participant in the New Sculpture movement that...