47 British women illustrators

Anne Anderson was a prolific Scottish illustrator, primarily known for her art nouveau children's book illustrations, although she also painted, etched and designed greeting cards. Her style of painting was influenced by her contemporaries, Charles Robinson, and Jessie Marion King, and was similar to that of her husband, Alan Wright (1864-1959).

Honor Charlotte Appleton (1879–1951) was a British illustrator of children's books, including The Children's Alice. She had a delicate watercolour style, influenced by Kate Greenaway and others.

Amy Maud Tindal Atkinson was an English artist, active in the 20th century, who exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy. She had no children and it is unknown if she at any time was married.

Mary Elizabeth Barber was a pioneering British-born amateur scientist of the nineteenth century. Without formal education, she made a name for herself in botany, ornithology and entomology. She was also an accomplished poet and painter, and illustrated her scientific contributions that were published by learned societies such as the Royal Entomological Society in London, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, and the Linnean Society of London.

Pauline Diana Baynes was an English illustrator, author and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than two hundred books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrator of some of J. R. R. Tolkien's minor works and of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.The hallmarks of her work were a talent for lively, imaginative designs; the ability to create a sense of energy and animation; a confident fluidity of line; a bold use of vibrant, gem-like colours and the subtle employment of negative space.

Jane Sarah Roberts Bell (1798-1873) was a British illustrator. Her illustrations of the African softshell turtle and pale-throated sloth's bone structures were published in A Monograph of the Testudinata and Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.

Clara Birnberg was a British artist, illustrator, portraitist and sculptor. After her marriage to the artist Stephen Weinstein, they changed their surname to Winsten and both became Quaker humanists.

Lauren Child is an English children's author and illustrator. She is known for her book series, such as the Charlie and Lola picture books, the Clarice Bean series and the Ruby Redfort novel series. Influences include E. H. Shepard, Quentin Blake, Carl Larsson, and Ludwig Bemelmans.

Adelaide Sophia Claxton was a British painter, illustrator, and inventor. She was one of the first women artists to make a major part of her living through the commercial press, selling satirical and comic illustrations to more than half a dozen periodicals.

Florence Kate Kingsford Cockerell, known variously as Florence Kingsford and Kate Cockerell, was a British illustrator and calligrapher who specialized in creating illuminated manuscripts. She worked with the Ashendene Press, the writer Olive Schreiner, and the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, among others. She is considered a leading illuminator of the British Arts and Crafts movement, with one authority holding that her originality as an illuminator was greater even than that of William Morris. She also designed some sets and costumes for opera and ballet.

Babette Cole was an English children's writer and illustrator.

Beryl Cook, OBE was a British artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until her thirties. She was a shy and private person, and in her art often depicted the flamboyant and extrovert characters she would have liked to have been.

Marianne Croker (1791–1854) was an English watercolour painter and author of the 19th century.

Jane Mary Dealy was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books.

Jessie Mabel Pritchard Dearmer was an English novelist, dramatist and children's book author/illustrator. She was a committed pacifist who died caring for the war wounded in Serbia.

Alice Heighes Donlevy was a 19th-century British-born American artist and writer on art who specialized in wood engraving and illumination. She served as the art editor of Demorest's Magazine.

Sarah Anne Drake (1803–1857) was an English botanical illustrator who worked for John Lindley and collaborated with Augusta Innes Withers, Nathaniel Wallich and others.

Nelly Erichsen was an English illustrator and painter. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, she was born into a wealthy professional Danish family. After studies at the Royal Academy of Art in the 1880s, she pursued a successful career as an illustrator and writer, working with a number of publishing firms including J.M. Dent and Macmillan, and jointly publishing travel books with Janet Ross, a prominent member of the Anglo-Tuscan pre-War community. In July 2018 "Nelly Erichsen - A Hidden Life", a biography of Erichsen by Sarah Harkness was published.

Edith Farmiloe (1870–1921) was a British children's book author and illustrator, active from the late 1890s to about 1905.

Barbara Firth (1928-2013) was a British illustrator of children's books, best known for her work on Martin Waddell's Little Bear books. She won the 1988 Kate Greenaway Medal

Annie Fish was a British cartoonist and illustrator. Her illustration of "Eve" in The Tatler spawned films, theatre and books.

Maria Flaxman (1768–1833) was an English painter and illustrator.

Barbara Constance Freeman was an English writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults.

Margery Jean Gill was a British illustrator of children's books.

Catherine Greenaway was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from South Kensington School of Art and the Royal Female School of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning holiday card market, producing Christmas and Valentine's cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer, Edmund Evans, printed Under the Window, an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s.

Gillian (Jill) Greenwood, Baroness Greenwood of Rossendale, was an English artist, illustrator and designer, co-creator of The Ministry of Information's Make Do and Mend pamphlet series and an important early member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

Christiana Mary Demain Hammond was an English painter and illustrator. She was a member of the Cranford School of illustration, and illustrated reissues of classic English texts from the 19th century. Her illustrations were frequently found in Cassell's Magazine, the Quiver, and St. Paul's. She exhibited occasionally at the Royal Academy and Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

Edith Hume (1843–1906) was a British painter and illustrator.

Catharine Johnston was an English botanical illustrator who had a species of marine animal named in her honour.

Jessie Marion King was a Scottish illustrator known for her illustrated children's books. She also designed bookplates, jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery. King was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls.

Celia Levetus also known as C. A. Nicholson and Diana Forbes (1874-1936) was a Canadian-English author, poet and illustrator of the Birmingham School.

Helen Grace Culverwell Marsh-Lambert or HGC Marsh-Lambert was a British writer and illustrator of children's books and postcards.

Frances Talbot, Countess of Morley was an English author and illustrator, best known as a correspondent of Jane Austen. By her marriage to John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley, she became the Countess of Morley.

Mary Moser was an English painter and one of the most celebrated women artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, Moser painted portraits but is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers.

Marjorie (Courtney) Quennell (1884–1972) was a British historian, illustrator and museum curator.

Annie Abernathie Pirie Quibell (1862–1927) was a Scottish artist and archaeologist.

Nellie Roberts was an English botanical and scientific illustrator from Lambeth. She was the first and longest serving Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) orchid artist. Roberts was employed to paint orchids that had gained RHS awards and built a reference collection of images of cultivars and hybrids for the Society. She was awarded the RHS Gold medal in 1900 and a silver Veitch Memorial Medal in 1954 for the quality of her art.

Stella Ross-Craig was an English illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora.

Elsie Wilkins Sexton was an English zoologist and biological illustrator.

Charlotte Caroline Sowerby (1820–1865) was a 19th-century British scientific illustrator and a member of the extensive Sowerby family of naturalist-illustrators.

Lavinia Spencer, Countess Spencer was a British illustrator.

Emily Stackhouse was a 19th-century Cornish botanical artist and plant collector. She collected and painted flowers and mosses throughout the British isles, and her work was widely reproduced in a series of popular books issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Many of her watercolours show that she had collected and depicted specific plants years earlier than their accredited discovery in Cornwall, and it is now acknowledged that she collected and classified nearly all of the British mosses.

Anne Stokes is a fantasy artist whose early work has appeared in role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons.

Margaret Winifred Tarrant was an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She was known for her children's books, postcards, calendars, and print reproductions.

Franciszka Themerson was a Polish, later British, painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.

Cecile Walton, was a Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor. She and her husband Eric were two of the moving spirits of the Edinburgh chapter of the Symbolist movement in the early 20th century.

Antonia Yeoman born Beryl Botterill Thompson sometimes known as Anton was an Australian-English cartoonist and illustrator.