Artists from Edinburgh

The list Artists from Edinburgh includes Jemima Blackburn, Samuel Peploe, Joyce W. Cairns, Alexander George Fraser and Jo Fraser. The list consists of 221 members and 3 sublists.

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Edinburgh

Capital of Scotland

Architects from Edinburgh
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Painters from Edinburgh
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Photographers from Edinburgh
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Stuart Sutcliffe

British painter and musician (1940–1962)

Overview: Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962), known as Stu Sutcliffe, was a Scottish painter and musician better known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band the B ...

Date of birth: 23 June 1940

Date of death: 10 April 1962

Age: 21 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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People educated at Prescot Grammar School 11T

Male bass guitarists 788T

English male painters 2,044T
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Eduardo Paolozzi

British artist

Overview: Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA (, 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art.

Date of birth: 7 March 1924

Date of death: 22 April 2005

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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People from Thorpe-le-Soken 7T

20th-century British printmakers 200T

Scottish male sculptors 77T
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Donald Cammell

British film director

Overview: Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film Performance, which he wrote ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1934

Date of death: 24 April 1996

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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1996 suicides 54T

Male suicides 1,509T

People educated at Westminster School, London 1,115T
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Jemima Blackburn

British artist

Overview: Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn (1 May 1823 – 9 August 1909) was a Scottish painter whose work gives us an evocative picture of rural life in 19th-century Scotland. One of the most popular illustrators in ...

Date of birth: 1 May 1823

Date of death: 9 August 1909

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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19th-century British women artists 388T

20th-century British women artists 1,115T

Wedderburn family 12T
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Ottilie Maclaren Wallace

British sculptor

Overview: Ottilie Helen McLaren (or MacLaren) Wallace (2 August 1875 – 16 October 1947) was a Scottish sculptor, a pupil of Auguste Rodin and an Associate Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Date of birth: 2 August 1875

Date of death: 16 October 1947

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Sculptor

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Joyce W. Cairns

Scottish painter and printmaker

Overview: Joyce W. Cairns is a Scottish painter and printmaker based in Aberdeen.

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Painter

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21st-century British women artists 353T

20th-century British women artists 1,115T

20th-century British printmakers 200T
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Alexander George Fraser

Scottish genre and domestic painter

Overview: Alexander George Fraser (1786–1865) was a Scottish genre and domestic painter who exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy in London for many years. His son, Alexander Fraser (1827-1899), was also ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1786

Date of death: 15 February 1865

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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19th-century male artists 2,737T

Scottish male painters 350T

19th-century Scottish painters 240T
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Robert Gavin

painter

Overview: Robert Gavin, R.S.A. (1827 – 5 October 1883) was a Scottish painter.

Date of birth: 1827

Date of death: 5 October 1883

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Scottish male painters 350T

19th-century Scottish painters 240T

Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art 284T
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Peter Doig

Artist

Overview: Peter Doig ( DOYG; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's ...

Date of birth: 17 April 1959

Age: 66

Nationality: British

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Scottish male painters 350T

Trinidad and Tobago people of Scottish descent 3T

Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art 226T
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Jo Fraser

British artist

Overview: Jo Fraser (born 12 December 1986) is a Scottish painter. She won the BP Portrait Award Travel Award 2011 in London.

Date of birth: 12 December 1986

Age: 38

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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21st-century British women artists 353T

21st-century women artists 2,023T

21st-century Scottish painters 54T
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Hew Locke

Artist

Overview: Hew Donald Joseph Locke (born 13 October 1959) is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London. In 2000 he won a Paul Hamlyn Award and the EASTinternational Award.

Date of birth: 13 October 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: British

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Freya Blackwood

Australian illustrator

Overview: Freya Blackwood (born 1975) is an Australian illustrator and special effects artist. She worked on special effects for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy from 2001 to 2003 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal ...

Date of birth: 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Australian women illustrators 36T

Australian children's book illustrators 30T

The Lord of the Rings (film series) 9T
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Alexander Dickson (botanist)

Scottish morphological botanist and botanical artist

Overview: Prof Alexander Dickson FRSE LLD (21 February 1836 – 30 December 1887) was a Scottish morphological botanist and botanical artist.

Date of birth: 21 February 1836

Date of death: 30 December 1887

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Doctor

Gender: Male

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19th-century male artists 2,737T

Scottish male painters 350T

19th-century British artists 57T
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Wendy McMurdo

British photographer

Overview: Wendy McMurdo (born 1962) specialises in photography and digital media. In 2018 she was named as one of the Hundred Heroines, an award created by the Royal Photographic Society to showcase the best of ...

Date of birth: 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: British

Occupation: Artist

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Senior Fellows of the Higher Education Academy 6T

21st-century women photographers 411T

21st-century British women artists 353T
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Sholto Johnstone Douglas

British artist

Overview: Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas (3 December 1871 – 10 March 1958), known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish figurative artist, a painter chiefly of portraits ...

Date of birth: 3 December 1871

Date of death: 10 March 1958

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Scottish male painters 350T

19th-century Scottish painters 240T

20th-century Scottish painters 287T
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J. Massey Rhind

American artist

Overview: John Massey Rhind (9 July 1860 – 1936) was a Scottish-American sculptor. Among Rhind's better known works is the marble statue of Dr. Crawford W. Long located in the National Statuary Hall Collection ...

Date of birth: 9 July 1860

Date of death: 1936

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Scottish male sculptors 77T

National Sculpture Society members 106T

British male sculptors 446T
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Sandra Alland

Scottish-Canadian writer, artist, publisher, performer, filmmaker and curator

Overview: Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, filmmaker and curator. Alland's work focuses on social justice, language, humour and ...

Date of birth: 17 April 1973

Age: 52

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

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Non-binary writers 83T

Writers with disabilities 44T

Artists with disabilities 72T
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Errol Étienne

British artist

Overview: Errol Herbert Russel Étienne (1941–2011) was an artist in many media including watercolor, oil and acrylic painting. His watercolors can be found in museums, travelling exhibitions as well as in private ...

Date of birth: 28 April 1941

Date of death: 22 April 2011

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Artist

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2011 deaths 8,708T

Scottish artists 239T

People from Edinburgh 1,878T
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Hew Lorimer

British artist

Overview: Hew Martin Lorimer, OBE (22 May 1907 – 1 September 1993) was a Scottish sculptor.

Date of birth: 22 May 1907

Date of death: 1 September 1993

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Scottish male sculptors 77T

British male sculptors 446T

20th-century British sculptors 417T
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Samuel Peploe

British artist

Overview: Samuel John Peploe (pronounced PEP-low; 27 January 1871 – 11 October 1935) was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that ...

Date of birth: 27 January 1871

Date of death: 11 October 1935

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Académie Colarossi alumni 255T

Scottish male painters 350T

19th-century Scottish painters 240T