List of People From Kent - Artists

Artists

  • William Woollett (1735–1785) – engraver
  • William Alexander (painter) (1767–1816) – painter and illustrator
  • J. M. W. Turner (c. 1775–1851) – landscape painter
  • Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902) – painter
  • Elizabeth Gould (illustrator) (1804–1902) – illustrator
  • Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) – landscape painter
  • Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – painter
  • John Hassall (illustrator) (1868–1948) – illustrator
  • Mary Tourtel (1874–1948) – artist and creator of Rupert Bear
  • Hugh Cecil (1889—c. 1939) – photographer
  • Compton Bennett (1900–1974) – film director and producer
  • Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971) – Tony Award winning theatre director
  • Don Potter (1902–2004) – sculptor
  • Michael Powell (director) (1905–1990) – film director
  • Peter Rogers (born 1914) – film producer of the Carry On film series
  • Oliver Postgate (born 1925) – animator and co-creator of Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine
  • Peter Firmin (born 1928) – animator and co-creator of Basil Brush, Bagpuss and The Clangers
  • Frank Auerbach (born 1931) – painter
  • Peter Blake (artist) (born 1932) – pop artist, designer of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve
  • Mary Quant (born 1934) – fashion designer and inventor of the miniskirt and hot pants
  • Antoinette Sibley (born 1939) – ballerina
  • Zandra Rhodes (born 1940) – fashion designer
  • Tim Page (born 1944) – Vietnam War photo-journalist
  • Roger Dean (born 1944) – album cover artist
  • Dick Pope (cinematographer) (born 1947) – cinematographer
  • Bill Lewis (born 1953) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
  • Mike Bernard (painter) (born 1957) – painter
  • Gary Hume (born 1962) – painter
  • John Hutton (born 1948) – abstract painter
  • Tracey Emin (born 1963) – Royal Academy artist
  • Tacita Dean (born 1965) – visual artist
  • Angus Fairhurst (born 1966) – photographic and visual artist
  • Joe Machine (born 1973) – founder member of the Stuckists art group
  • Remy Noe (born 1974) – founder member of the Stuckists art group

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