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Designers from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

31 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Charles Frederick WorthDesigner · FashionCharles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th…
Christopher DresserDesigner · Modern designChristopher Dresser (4 July 1834 – 24 November 1904) was a British designer and design theorist, now widely known as one of the first and most important independent designers.
Clifford EllisDesigner · Modern designClifford Wilson Ellis (1907–1985) was a British printmaker, painter, designer and art teacher.
Duncan GrantDesigner · Modern designDuncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Edna Clarke HallDesigner · Modern designEdna Clarke Hall (née Waugh; 29 June 1879 – 16 November 1979) was a watercolour artist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman who is mainly known for her many illustrations to Wuthering…
Edward Burne-JonesIllustrator · IllustrationSir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (28 August 183317 June 1898), was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Edward MaufeDesigner · Modern designIllustration — Maufe, photographed by Howard Coster
Eva McKeeDesigner · Modern designEva McKee (28 July 1890 – 1955) was an Irish craftswoman and designer, known for her involvement with the Irish Decorative Art Association.
Ford Madox BrownArtist · PaintingsFord Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the…
Frances MacDonaldIllustrator · IllustrationFrances Macdonald MacNair (24 August 1873 – 12 December 1921) was a Scottish artist whose design work was a prominent feature of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) during the…
Gerald HoltomDesigner · Modern designGerald Herbert Holtom (20 January 1914 – 18 September 1985) was an English artist and designer.
Harry EcclestonDesigner · Modern designHarry Norman Eccleston, OBE (21 January 1923 – 30 April 2010) was an artist from Coseley, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), England.
Henry Herbert CollierDesigner · Modern designHenry Herbert Collier (1859–1926) was one of the first British motorcycle designers, inventor and founder of the Matchless Motorcycle Company.
James WyattDesigner · Modern designJames Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect who was a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles.
Jocelyn HerbertDesigner · Modern designJocelyn Herbert RDI (22 February 1917 – 6 May 2003) was a British stage designer.
John Byam Liston ShawIllustrator · IllustrationJohn Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872 – 26 January 1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher.
Joseph WhitworthDesigner · Modern designSir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist.
Laura AshleyDesigner · FashionLaura Ashley (née Mountney; 7 September 1925 – 17 September 1985) was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer.
Laurence BradshawEngraver · PrintsOfficial war artist for the Norwegian government during WWII.
Lawson WoodDesigner · Modern designLawson Wood, sometimes Clarence Lawson Wood, (23 August 1878 – 26 October 1957), was an English painter, illustrator and designer.
Millicent Jane TaplinArtist · CeramicsIllustration — Millicent Taplin at Wedgwood
Oskar KokoschkaIllustrator · IllustrationOskar Kokoschka (lang; 1 March 188622 February 1980) was an Austrian (though, at times during his life, he had also Czech and British citizenship) artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best…
Owen JonesIllustrator · IllustrationOwen Jones (15 February 1809 – 19 April 1874) was a British architect. A versatile architect and designer, he was also one of the most influential design theorists of the nineteenth century.
Paul NashEngraver · PrintsPaul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art.
Philip WebbDesigner · Modern designPhilip Speakman Webb (12 January 1831 – 17 April 1915) was a British architect and designer sometimes called the Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture.
Richard HamiltonDesigner · Modern designRichard William Hamilton (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011) was an English painter and collage artist.
Theyre Lee-ElliottDesigner · Modern designTheyre Lee-Elliott (28 May 1903 – 24 December 1988) was an English artist who created notable Art Deco logos such as the Speedbird and painted the ballet and religious art.
Thomas Matthews RookeDesigner · Modern designIllustration — A Vanished Corner of Old Chiswick, 1896
Vernon SteeleDesigner · Modern designVernon Steele (born Arturo Romeo Antonietti; 18 September 1882 – 23 July 1955) was a Chilean-born British actor known for his appearances on the Broadway stage and in American films.
Walter CraneDesigner · Modern designWalter Crane (15 August 184514 March 1915) was an English artist, book illustrator, and prominent advocate for anti-authoritarian democratic socialism among British socialists and in the…
Walter WhiteheadDesigner · Modern designWalter Whitehead, FRCSE, FRSE, (12 October 1840–August 1913) was a surgeon at various hospitals in Manchester, England, and held the chair of Clinical Surgery at the Victoria University of…

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