List of Scottish artists

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 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 Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724–1772), noted North American portrait painter 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 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 Louisa Ellen Perman (1854-1921), floral painter with a focus on roses 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

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)