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Ba edit
- John Staines Babb YP
- Guido R. Bach
- William Henry Bach
George Back- Edward Backhouse
- James Edward Backhouse
- Margaret Backhouse nee Holden, 1818-?, studied under Troivaux and Grenier; Society of Lady Artists
- Mary Backhouse, daughter of Margarety, married William Edward Miller (painter)
- John Henry Frederick Bacon
- Thomas Bacon (topographer) FSA
- Thomas Badeslade
- Richard Bagot (painter), 14th son of Sir Walter Bagot, 5th Baronet
- Henry Bailey (painter)
- John Bailey (agriculturist)
- Caroline Baillie (painter)
- William Baillie (engraver)
- Arthur Bainbridge
- Henry Baines (painter) 1823-1894
- Thomas Baines
- Nathaniel Hughes John Baird YP
- Anselm Baker
- Arthur Baker (painter)
- Blanche Baker (painter) 1844-1929
- Harry Baker (painter) son of Samuel Henry Baker
- Oliver Baker
- Richard Baker (painter) b. 1822, elder brother of Alfred Baker
- Samuel Henry Baker
- Thomas Baker of Leamington 1809-1869
- James Walsham Baldock YP, grandfather of Charles Edwin Markham Baldock
- John Kirby Baldrey
- Alfred Lys Baldry YP+ Draft:Alfred Lys Baldry
- Robert Baldwin (draughtsman), pupil of Matthew Brettingham
- Charles H. Baldwyn YP, i.e. Charles Henry Clifford Baldwyn or Charles Baldwyn 1859–1943
- Edwin Bale YP Art Director for Cassells
- Alice Blanche Balfour, sister of Arthur Balfour
- Louisa Ball, daughter of Amelia Noel
- Wilfrid Williams Ball
- Robert Michael Ballantyne
- Alexander Ballingall
- George Balmer
- Hurst Balmford YP, head of Morecambe School of Art
- Coplestone Warre Bampfylde
- Elias Mollineaux Bancroft
- John James Bannatyne YP
- Edward Bannister (painter)
- Charles Burton Barber
- Charles Vincent Barber
- Christopher Barber (painter)
- Joseph Barber
- Joseph Vincent Barber
- R. Barber illustrated Sterne, Sentimental Journey
- Reginald Barber YP
- Edgar Barclay YP
- Hugh Barclay (painter)
- J. Barclay
- James Maclaren Barclay
- William Barclay (businessman) 1850-1907
- William Bardwell (painter)
- Ann Baring daughter of John Baring (merchant)
- Henry Dawson Barkas YP
- Benjamin Barker (painter)
- Henry Aston Barker
- John Joseph Barker YP
- Robert Barker (painter)
- Thomas Barker of Bath
- William Dean Barker
- Emma L. Barkworth
- Francis Barlow (artist)
- John Barlow (painter)
- John Noble Barlow
- Catherine Barnard nee Locking
- Frederick Barnard (painter) i.e. Fred Barnard
- George Barnard (illustrator), pupil of James Duffield Harding
- William Henry Barnard
- Joseph H. Barnes of Hammersmith: Joseph Barnes (painter) is YP
- Robert Barnes (painter) 1840-1895; one of this name YP
- James D. Barnett
- Joseph Barney
- Joseph W. Barney, son of Joseph
- James Barnicle YP
- William Barr (major-general); one of this name YP
- John James Barralet
- John Melchior Barralet
- Reginald Barratt
- William Barraud
- George Barret, Sr.
- George Barret, Jr.
- James Barret YP
- John Barrett (painter)
- Mary Barret died 1836, daughter of George Barret, Sr.
- Thomas Barrett (painter)
- William Augustus Barron
- Joseph Charles Barrow, topographer and drawing master
- Charles Barry
- Frederick Barry (painter)
- Montague Barstow
- J. Barth
- Anne Charlotte Bartholomew DNB, nee Fayermann, c.1800-1862; married to Walter Turnbull then Valentine Bartholomew
- Valentine Bartholomew
- William Henry Bartlett
- Ezekial Barton
- Rose Barton
- John Barwell YP
- Stephen John Batchelder YP
- Charles Philip Butler Bateman
- William Bateman (engraver) 1806-1833
- David Bates (artist)
- Charles Bathurst (painter), son of Charles Bathurst
- Walter Daniel Batley YP
- Elizabeth Frances Batty, daughter of Robert Batty (physician)
- John Batty (painter)
- Robert Batty (physician)
- Robert Batty (artist)
- Ferdinand Lucas Bauer
- Thomas Baxter (painter)
- W. Baxter c.1855-1888, drew Ally Sloper
- Alfred Walter Bayes YP
- Walter John Bayes, son of Alfred Walter, Camden Town Group (ODNB) 1869-1956, head of Westminster Art School
- Fanny Jane Bayfield, flower painter in Norwich, taught Munnings
- Wyke Bayliss
- James Bayne
- Frederick Thomas Baynes, grandson of James Baynes
- James Baynes
- Thomas Mann Baynes
- Henry Baynton (painter) 1862-1926
Be edit
- Ernest George Beach 1865-post 1934
- Thomas Beach
- James Beale
- Mary Beale
- Sarah Sophia Beale
- Ainslie H. Bean
- Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
- Edward H. Bearne
- Mary Victoria Feodore Beatrice
- Diana Beauclerk
- William H. Beauford
- Albinus Beaumont
- Alfred Beaumont architect
- George Howland Beaumont
- Richard Beavis YP Draft:Richard Beavis
- Alexander Bridport Becher
- John W. Beck
- Edmund Becker (painter)
- Harry Becker
- Thomas Beckwith
- Francis Bedford
- Francis Donkin Bedford
- Frederick George Denham Bedford
- George Bedford YP 1849-1920
- John Bates Bedford
- Richard Brydges Beechey
- George Law Beetholme
- William Beilby
- Diana Belcher
- Dacres Thomas Charles Belgrave
- Percy Belgrave
- Isaac Mendez Belisario
- Alexander Carlyle Bell
- Arthur George Bell YP 1849-1916 illustrator for Nancy Meugens, his future wife
- Charles Bell
- John Anderson Bell i.e. Jonathan Anderson Bell
- John D. Bell
- Robert Anning Bell
- Robert Purves Bell YP 1841-1931 son of Robert Charles Bell
- Walford Thomas Bellairs
- William Bellers, Yr.
- Frank Belshaw
- Peter Paul Benazech
- Siegfried Detlev Bendixen
- Newton Benett
- Berenger Benger
- Mary Elizabeth Bennet
- Harriet M. Bennett
- John M. Bennett
- William Bennett
- William James Bennett
- William Minneard Bennett
- Charlotte E. Benson
- James Theodore Bent
- Robert H. Bentham or Robert Bentham YP 1822-1900 Guernsey
- Lady Charles Bentinck nee Anne Wellesley, wife of Lord Charles Bentinck, pupil of de Wint
- Charles Bentley (painter)
- Joseph Clayton Bentley DNB YP
- Richard Bentley (1708–1782)
- John Hodges Benwell
- Joseph Austin Benwell
- Gabriel Beranger DNB ?Gabriel Béranger
- Cecilia Melanie Beresford
- Charles Frederick Cobbe Beresford
- Berry Francis Berry
- Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough
- Charles Bestland
- John Beugo 1759-1841 friend of Burns
- Robert Polhill Bevan
- William Bevan (painter)
- William Roxby Beverly
- Robert Elliot Bewick
- Thomas Bewick
- William Bewick
Bi edit
- John Bidlake
- Sarah Biffin
- Angelo Maria Bigari
- Charles John Bigge
- Mary Backhouse Bigland b.1844, Backhouse banking family
- Charles Bigot
- Robert Williams Billings
- S. Bilston
- James George Bingley
- Graham Binny
- Samuel John Lamorna Birch
- Edward Bird
- Isaac Faulkner Bird YP Exeter
- John Bird of Liverpool 1768-1826
- S. Birkett
- Ada Kate Birley
- Henry Birtles
- Catherine Seaton Forman Bisschop nee Swift
Bl edit
- Andrew Black (painter) YP 1850-1916
- Jemima Blackburn
- Helena Blackburne
- William James Blacklock
- John Blair (painter)
- Fanny Blake pupil of de Wint
- William Blake
- William Blake of Newhouse pupil of Turner
- Nicholas Blakey DNB
- Beckwith Blanchard
- John H. Bland pupil of Henry Barlow Carter
- Conway Blatchford
- Charles Blatherwick
- Jonas Blaymire
- Jabez Bligh
- John Thomas Blight
- Edward Blore
- J. Bluck
- Anna E. Blunden or Anna Blunden, Mrs. Martino, b. 1829
- Henry Bala Blunt
- James Tillyer Blunt
- John Silvester Blunt
Bo edit
- Harriet Olivia Boddington
- William James Boddy
- Samuel Standige Boden
- Barbara Bodichon
- Frederick Boisseree
- Minna R. Bolingbroke
- Charles Newport Bolton
- James Bolton
- John Nunn Bolton
- William J. Bolton
- L. Bomford
- John Linnell Bond
- John Lloyd Bond
- Richard Sebastian Bond YP 1808-1886, relation of the next
- William John Joseph C. Bond
- Henry Pierce Bone
- Richard Parkes Bonington
- George Wilmot Bonnar
- Jacob Bonneau
- Thomas Bonner +
- Joseph Bonomi the Younger
- William Henry James Boot
- Richard Salvey Booth
- William Booth (painter)
- Frederick William Booty
- Charlotte Bosanquet
- J. Bosanquet, photographer in Cork, father of J. Claude Bosanquet
- John Bostock (painter)
- William Botham
- Walter Bothams
- Samuel Bough
- George Henry Boughton
- Thomas Boulger
- James Bourne (artist)
- Samuel Bourne (painter)
- Agnes Rose Bouvier
- Auguste Jules Bouvier
- Gustavus A. Bouvier
- Joseph Bouvier YP relation of next?
- Jules Bouvier
- Sarah Bowdich or Sarah Lee (DNB), wife of Thomas Edward Bowdich
- Owen Bowen YP 1873-1967
- Georgina Bowers
- Stephen J. Bowers
- Henry Alexander Bowler YP 1824-1893, taught at Somerset House
- Oldfield Bowles YP 1739-1810, Society of St. Peter the Martyr, father of Charles Oldfield Bowles
- Robert Bowyer
- Alfred Ashdown Box
- William Boxall
- George Price Boyce
- William Thomas Nicholas Boyce
- Alexander Stuart Boyd
- Alice Boyd 1825-1897 Penskill
- Edward Fenwick Boyd
- Michael Austin Boyd
- W. S. Boyd
- Eleanor Vere Boyle
- John Boyne (artist)
- Thomas Shotter Boys
Br edit
- Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
- Selina Bracebridge nee Mills
- Paul Braddon
- Louis King Bradford
- William Bradford (English painter)
- Basil Bradley YP 1842-1902, son of William Bradley
- Edward Bradley (writer)
- Gordon Bradley (painter)
- John Henry Bradley
- Mary Bradley (painter) RA 1811
- Robert Bradley (painter) YP 1813-c.1880 pub landlord in Nottingham
- William Bradley (painter)
- Edward Bragg (painter)
- John Bragg (painter)
- Edward Paxman Brandard brother of Robert
- Robert Brandard
- Henry Charles Brandling
- Michel Vincent Charles Brandoin
- J. Branegan
- Frank William Brangwyn ODNB
- Charles Branwhite
- Charles Brooke Branwhite, son of the above
- Nathan Cooper Branwhite
- Gabriel Bray YP
- William Thomas Bree 1754-1822 +
- John Brenan (painter) c.1796-1865, father of John Butler Brenan
- Michael G. Brennan
- Edward Pelham Brenton
- Jahleel Brenton
- John Edward Brett
- Joseph William Brett
- Peircy Brett
- Henry Charles Brewer
- Henry William Brewer
- John Brewer (painter) 1764-1816, brother of Robert Brewer (1775-1857)
- Edward Frederick Brewtnall
- Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
- John Bridden
- Frederick Lee Bridell
- James Bridges (painter) 1802-1865
- Thomas Bridgford
- Oswald Walters Brierly
- Ernest Edward Briggs
- Harry Bright (painter)
- Henry Bright (painter)
- George M. Brighty
- J. Paul Brinson
- Charles Brisbane
- Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol
- Edmund Bristow
- S. Bristow
- Charles Edward Brittan
- John Britton (antiquary)
- W. Broadbelt
- Henry Brocas
- Henry Brocas, the younger
- James Henry Brocas
- Samuel Frederick Brocas
- William Brocas
- Charles Edmund Brock
- Henry Matthew Brock
- William Brockedon
- Charles Brocky
- Karoly Brocky
- John Bromley (draughtsman)
- Valentine Walter Lewis Bromley great-grandson of the next
- William Bromley (artist)
- Arthur de Capell Brooke
- A. Newton Brooke
- John Brooke (painter) c.1802-c.1881 vicar of Shifnal
- Leonard Leslie Brooke
- William Henry Brooke
- Warwick Brookes (designer) 1808-1882
- Charles Brooking
- Robert Barnabas Brough
- Agnes Mary Brown
- Alexander Kellock Brown YP 1849-1922
- Alfred J. Warne-Brown
- David Brown (painter)
- Edward Archibald Brown YP 1866-1935
- Ford Madox-Brown
- Frederick Brown (painter) 1851-1941
- James Michael Brown
- John Brown (artist)
- John Brown (architect)
- John Brown (fl. 1792–1820)
- Lancelot Brown
- Oliver Madox-Brown
- Peter Brown (naturalist)
- Richard Brown (architect)
- Thomas Austen Brown YP 1857-1924
- Vandyke Brown
- William Brown (painter)
- William Beattie Brown YP 1831-1909
- William Fulton Brown
- Alexander Browne (17th-century painter) drawing-master to Mrs. Pepys
- Charles Henry Browne
- E. F. Browne
- George Frederick Browne, son of the next
- Hablot Knight Browne
- J. D. H. Browne on Mont Blanc with Goodall
- James Loxham Browne
- Philip Browne
- Thomas Arthur Browne illustrator
- Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning YP, son of Robert Browning
- Sophia, Countess Brownlow daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet
- Harry A. Brownsword c.1850-c.1910
- James Bruce
- Frederick Brueton YP
- Louis Burleigh Bruhl
- George Bryan Brummell
- Edgar Montgomery Brunden
- John Bryant (painter) of ships
- Joshua Bryant (engraver)
Bu edit
- Adam Buck
- Samuel Buck
- William Buck (painter)
- Mary Buckle
- John Buckler
- John Chessell Buckler
- William Buckler
- C. F. Buckley
- J. E. Buckley
- John Buckley (miniaturist) perhaps elder brother to the two previous
- William Buckley (painter) DNB
- Edwin Buckman
- Ernest Pile Bucknall
- Richard Bucknet
- George Budd (painter)
- Abel Bugler
- George Lawrence Bulleid
- Susannah Buller nee Yarde, wife of Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet, pupil of Francis Towne
- George Bullock (painter)
- Job Bulman
- James Bulwer
- Henry William Bunbury
- Myra Louisa Bunce, sister of Kate Elizabeth Bunce 1858-1927
- Edgar Bundy
- John Wharlton Bunney
- Sydney John Bunney
- Thomas Bunting (painter) YP 1851-1928 Aberdeenshire
- J. M. Burbank
- Arthur Burchett YP
- Lawrence Burd
- William Corbett Burder
- Adelaide Burgess Leamington, daughter of J. C. Burgess
- Henry William Burgess +, father of John Bagnold Burgess
- James Howard Burgess YP
- John Burgess (painter)
- John Burgess, younger 1814-1874, son of previous
- John Bagnold Burgess
- John Cart Burgess
- Thomas Burgess Yr. son of William Burgess
- William Burgess (painter)
- William Burgess of Dover
- Dorothy, Countess of Burlington 1699-1758, wife of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
- John Burlison
- Gerald Maurice Burn YP 1862-?
- Thomas F. Burn
- James M. Burnet
- John Burnet (painter)
- William Hickling Burnett
- Charles Parr Burney FRS
- Edward Francis Burney
- Robert Burns (artist)
- Margaretta Higford Burr
- G. Burr
- John P. Burr 1831-1893
- Charles Burrard 1793-1870 Admiral
- Albin Robert Burt
- Charles Thomas Burt YP
- Frederick William Burton
- William Paton Burton DNB
- William Shakespeare Burton
- Thomas Talbot Bury
- Flora Bush nee Hyland, married Reginald Edgar James Bush
- Thomas Bushby (painter) 1861-1918
- Robert William Buss
- Reuben Bussey YP 1818-1893
- Elizabeth Southerden, Lady Butler
- George Butler (schoolmaster)
- Mary E. Butler went to Natal
- Mildred Anne Butler
- Samuel Butler (novelist)
- Thomas Buttersworth
- Albert Sorby Buxton