Members, Associates and Honorary Members of the Royal Watercolour Society
Patron Her Majesty The Queen
Election to Associateship of Membership does not necessarily mean that this membership was held until the death of the individual. The title 'Royal' was granted in July 1881. Those artists who died or ceased membership before this date should be styled AOWS (Associate) or OWS (Member). Those who lived after this date should be styled ARWS (Associate) or RWS (Member).
To view the list of artists in the present day Membership only, please see Artists
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Name
Associate
Member
Edwin Austin Abbey RA 1895 Norman Adams RA 1987 (Hon) Edwin Alexander 1899 1910 Gregory Alexander 1984 1987 Herbert Alexander 1905 1927 HM Queen Alexandra 1881 (Hon) Robert Weir Allan 1887 1896 Helen Allingham 1875 1890 Henry Curzon Allport 1813 1818 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1873 1875 George Henry Andrews 1856 1878 Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey 1945 (Hon) Leonard Lloyd Annois 1952 1958 Frank Joseph Archer 1971 1976 Edward Ardizzone 1952 Diana Armfield 1977 1983 Maxwell Ashby Armfield 1937 1941 John Augustus Atkinson 1808 1808 Robert Sargent Austin RA 1930 1934 Samuel Austin 1827 1834 Stanley Roy Badmin 1932 1939 Fay Ballard 2007 2010 Gerry Baptist 2017 2019 Charles Vincent Barber 1812 Robert Barnes 1876 Reginald Barratt 1901 1912 George Barret Jnr 1805 Mary Barret 1823 Valentine Bartholmew 1835 Charles Bartlett 1959 1970 Rose Maynard Barton 1893 1911 Bernard Philip Wynn Batchelor 1967 1974 Bernard William Roland Batchelor 1957 1966 James Bateman RA 1949 Edward Bawden RA 1943 1988 (Hon) Richard Bawden 1995 1997 Walter Bayes 1900 1931 Clifford John Bayly 1981 1984 Richard Beavis 1882 1892 Robert Anning Bell RA 1901 1904 William James Bennett 1820 1825 Charles Bentley 1834 1843 June Berry 1989 1994 Akash Bhatt 2005 2008 Lorna Emily Binns 1973 1977 Samuel John 'Lamorna' Birch RA 1912 1914 Christie Bird 2018 Elizabeth Blackadder RA 1992 (Hon) William Blackshaw 2000 (Hon) G John Blockley 1984 Sir Muirhead Bone 1943 (Hon) John Bostock 1851 Dennis Adrian Roxby Bott 1981 1983 Francis Bowyer 1987 1991 William Bowyer RA 1964 1974 George Price Boyce 1864 1877 Basil Bradley 1867 1881 Henry Charles Brandling 1853 Charles Branwhite 1849 Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA 1921 1952 (Hon) David Brayne 2001 2004 Edward Frederick Brewtnall 1875 1883 Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale 1901 1919 Sir Oswald Walter Brierley 1872 1880 Robert Brown 1959 Edwin Buckman 1877 George Lawrence Bulleid 1889 Lionel Bulmer 1959 1974 John Burgess Jnr 1851 Averil Burliegh 1939 Sir Edward Coley Burnes-Jones RA 1864 1868 John Burr 1883 Sir Frederick William Burton 1853 1886 (Hon) Adrian Bury 1956 1960 Elizabeth Butler 1996 2000 George Butler 1956 1957 Mildred Anne Butler 1896 1937 Anne Frances Byrne 1806 1809 John Byrne 1827 Patricia Cain 2015 John Callow 1849 William Callow 1838 1848 Sir David Young Cameron RA 1904 1915 George Howard 9th Earl of Carlisle 1891 (Hon) David Carpanini 1996 (Hon) Jane Carpanini 1978 1983 Thomas James Carr 1947 1959 David Cass 2017 Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson PRA 1970 (Hon) George Cattermole 1829 1834 John James Chalon RA 1806 1807 Arthur Neville Chamberlain 1938 (Hon) Joseph Chamberlain 1899 (Hon) George Chambers 1834 1835 Michael Chaplin 1993 1996 HRH Charles Prince of Wales 1982 (Hon) Helga Chart 2005 2008 Harold Cheesman 1965 1974 Charles Sidney Cheston 1929 1933 Alexander Chisholm 1829 Jean Manson Clark 1965 1972 John Cosmo Clark RA 1950 1952 Norman Alexander Clark 1953 1960 Sir George Clausen RA 1889 1898 Katherine Clauson 1931 Luke Clennel 1812 1812 Thomas Coates 1983 1985 Dorothy Coke 1935 1942 William Collingwood 1855 1884 Mcihael Collins 2008 2013 Philip Connard RA 1932 1934 Julie D. Cooper 2015 2018 Mario Cooper 1978 (Hon) Jane Corsellis 1990 1995 John Sell Cotman 1825 Raymond Teague Cowern 1940 1947 Geoffrey Clement Cowles 1962 1974 Frank Cadogan Cowper RA 1904 1911 David Cox 1812 1812 David Cox Jnr 1848 Elizabeth Frances Cramp 1970 1976 Jonathan David Cramp 1974 1978 Walter Crane 1888 1902 David Alexander Robert Lindsay 28th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres 1938 (Hon) Mary Ann Criddle 1849 Joshua Cristall 1805 Henry Edgar Crockett 1905 1913 John Crossley 2015 2017 Victoria Crowe 1991 Charles Ernest Cundall RA 1935 1941 Claire Dalby 1973 1977 Thomas Danby 1867 1886 Alfred Daniels 1972 1978 Charles Grant Davidson 1855 1858 Louis Davis 1898 Sir Edward Guy Dawber RA 1938 Nelson Dawson 1921 1941 Charles Ernest Deacon 1958 William Wood Deane 1870 Roger De Grey PRA 1985 (Hon) William Alfred Delamotte 1806 Claire Denny 2019 Robert Stanley Gorrell Dent 1983 1986 Peter De Wint 1810 1811 Ernest Michael Dinkel 1939 1957 Williams Charles Thomas Dobson RA 1870 1875 Francis Dodd RA 1923 1929 George Haydock Dodgson 1848 1852 John Charles Dollman 1906 1934 Edmund Dorrell 1809 1809 Sir Philip Manning Dowson 2001 (Hon) John Doyle 1977 1983 William Dring RA 1942 1957 Catherine Ducker 1997 2001 George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier 1881 Jim Dunbar 2013 2015 Edward Duncan 1848 1849 Walter Duncan 1874 Keith Dunkley 1968 1978 Harry Norman Eccleston OBE 1964 1975 Mildred Elsie Eldridge 1942 1956 Alfred Edward Emslie 1888 Richard Hamilton Essex 1823 Samuel Thomas George Evans 1858 1897 Williams 'of Bristol' Evans 1845 William 'of Eton' Evans 1828 1830 Anthony Eyton RA 1985 1988 Wilfred Fairclough 1961 1967 Suzy Fasht 2018 James Faure Walker 2013 2014 Walter Field 1880 Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding 1810 1812 Mary Anne Fielding 1821 Thales Fielding 1829 Francis Oliver Finch 1822 1827 Sheila Anne Macfarlane Findlay 1969 1982 David Firmstone 2000 2003 Dennis Flanders 1970 1976 Bernard Fleetwood-Walker RA 1940 1945 Francis Russell Flint 1955 1968 Robert Purves Flint 1932 1937 Sir William Russell Flint RA 1914 1917 Elizabeth Adela Stanhope 1899 Mary Forster 1884 Myles Birket Foster 1860 1862 Trevor Frankland 1997 1999 Robert Freebairn 1805 Hubert Andrew Freeth RA 1948 1955 Chloe Fremantle 2018 Alfred Downing Fripp 1844 1846 Charles Edwin Fripp 1891 George Arthur Fripp 1841 1845 Arthur Malcolm Fry 1959 (Hon) Christa Gaa 1986 1989 Cameron Galt 2009 2012 Tom Gamble 1987 1989 William J. Clare Gaskell 1955 1961 Henry Gastineau 1821 1823 Charles March Gere RA 1921 1926 Sir John Gilbert RA 1852 1854 Margaret Gillies 1852 William Sawrey Gilpin 1804 Phyllis Ethel Ginger 1952 1958 Charles Ginner ARA 1938 1945 William Ewart Gladstone 1873 (Hon) Arthur Glennie 1837 1858 Henry Gillard Glindoni 1883 John Glover 1804 David Gluck 1985 1988 Janet Golphin 1992 1996 Edward Angelo Goodall 1858 1864 Walter Goodall 1853 1861 Albert Goodwin 1871 1881 Ronald 3rd Baron Gorrell 1939 1939 (Hon) Edith Granger-Taylor 1936 Ronald Gray 1934 1941 John Greensmith 1976 1983 Ernest Greenwood 1962 1972 Charles Gregory 1882 1883 Anthony Gross 1948 Carl Haag 1850 1853 Alfred Hackney 1964 1972 Isla Hackney 1993 1997 Thomas Arthur Hackney 1951 1957 William Matthew Hale 1871 1881 Bill Henderson 2007 2010 Arthur Henderson Hall 1958 1970 Oliver Hall RA 1916 1919 Charlotte Halliday 1971 1976 David Hamilton 2016 2018 Martin Hardie 1943 (Hon) James Duffield Harding 1820 1821 John Jessop Hardwick 1882 Heywood Hardy 1885 Jean Harper 1960 1966 Josephine Harris 1967 1974 George Henry Harrison 1845 Maria Harrison 1847 Archibald Standish Hartrick 1910 1920 William Havell 1804 Meredith William Hawes 1956 1970 Susan Hawker 1975 1982 Emma Haworth 2015 Alfred Robert Hayward 1960 Thomas Heaphy 1807 1807 Julie Held 2002 Charles Napier Hemy RA 1890 1897 Allan Keith Henderson 1930 1937 Thomas Barclay Hennell 1938 1942 John Henry Henshall 1883 1897 Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA 1893 1897 Sir Prescott Gardiner Hewett 1893 (Hon) Alfred Heyworth 1959 1960 Robert Hills 1804 Samuel John Hodson 1882 1890 Eileen Hogan 1986 1989 Douglas Hamilton Holden 1953 1961 Harold Henry Holden 1945 1953 Edgar Thomas Holding 1920 1929 Frank Holl RA 1883 James Holland 1835 1857 Sarah Holliday 1993 1996 Sir Charles John Holmes 1924 1929 James Holmes 1813 Brenda Holtam 1987 1991 James Holworthy 1804 Arthur Hopkins 1877 1896 Henry Silkstone Hopwood 1896 1908 Arthur Boyd Houghton 1871 James Kenneth Howard RA 1979 1983 Sue Howells 2016 2018 Erlund Hudson 1939 1949 Edward Robert Hughes 1891 1895 Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton RA 1909 1915 Alfred William Hunt 1862 1864 Cecil Arthur Hunt 1919 1925 William Henry Hunt 1824 1826 William Holman Hunt 1869 1887 Jim Hunter 2017 2018 Evelyn Grace Ince 1937 Arne Isacsson 1998 (Hon) Kenneth Jack 1977 1983 Mary Jackson 1995 2001 Samuel Jackson 1823 Samuel Phillips Jackson 1853 1876 Wendy Jacob 2005 2008 Francis Edward James 1908 1916 Norman Janes 1957 1967 Joseph John Jenkins 1849 1850 Edgar Owen Jennings 1943 1950 Beatrice Johnson 1957 1969 Edward Killingworth Johnson 1866 1876 Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston 1904 (Hon) Evelyn Joll 1991 (Hon) Barry Owen Jones 1982 1986 David Jones 1960 (Hon) Cecil Jospe 2000 Percy Hague Jowett 1936 1938 Michael Kauffman 1989 Pamela Kay 1983 1986 Janet Kerr 1995 1997 Philip King 2001 (Hon) Charles Knight 1933 1935 Dame Laura Knight RA 1909 1928 Sophie Knight 1990 1995 Thomas Reynolds Lamont 1866 Karolina Larusdottir 1992 1996 Sonia Lawson RA 1985 1989 Sidney Lee RA 1942 1945 William Lee-Hankey 1925 1936 Stewart Lees 1991 1995 Baron Frederic Leighton PRA 1886 Jill Leman 2009 2012 Martin Leman 2010 2013 Jane Lewis 2016 2018 John Frederick Lewis RA 1827 1829 Moffatt Peter Lindner 1917 1930 Sir Daryl Lindsay 1938 1965 Vincent Lines 1939 1945 John Linfield 1988 1994 Alan Carr Linford 1949 1956 John Linnel 1813 Robert Little 1892 1899 Thomas James Lloyd 1878 1886 William Ewart Lockhart 1878 Arthur Lockwood 2006 2009 Dorothy Margaret Lockwood 1969 1974 Charles Longbotham 1969 1974 John Henry Lorimer 1908 1932 HRH Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll 1878 (Hon) Egron Seliff Lundgren 1864 1865 Anne Lynch 2019 Robert Walker Macbeth RA 1871 1901 Douglas Sutherland MacColl 1943 (Hon) Leonard McComb RA 1996 (Hon) Joseph McCulloch 1944 Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA 1926 Michael McGuinness 1989 1994 Frederick Mackenzie 1822 1822 Ronald Maddox 1992 (Hon) Jean-Baptiste Madou 1873 (Hon) Monique Malivoir 1991 (Hon) Henry Stacy Marks RA 1871 1883 Arthur Hardwick Marsh 1870 Herbert Menzies Marshall 1879 1883 Edith Martineau 1888 Sir John Stirling Maxwell 1937 Caroline McAdam Clark 2008 2011 Angus McEwan 2009 2012 Paul Mellon 1987 (Hon) Arthur Melville 1888 1900 Adolph Friedrich Erdmann Menzel 1881 (Hon) Colin Merrin 2009 2013 Paul Methuen 4th Baron RA 1944 1952 Robert Flavell Micklewright 1961 1976 Julia Midgley 2017 2019 Derek Millard 1996 (Hon) Rodney Thomas Millard 1987 (Hon) Stuart Milner 1947 1955 Gerald Edward Moira 1917 1932 Sir Walter Thomas Monnington PRA 1975 (Hon) Clara Montalba 1874 1892 Albert Joseph Moore 1884 Bridget Moore 2013 2015 Charles Moore 1822 Henry Moore RA 1876 1880 Henry Moore 1982 (Hon) Douglas Morison 1844 Harry Morley ARA 1927 1931 Peter John Morrell 1976 1983 Charles Alfred Morris 1943 1949 David Muirhead ARA 1924 Claude Muncaster 1931 1936 Paul Sandby Munn 1806 Sir Alfred James Munnings PRA 1921 1929 Sir David Murray RA 1886 Alison Musker 2000 2003 Maud Naftel 1887 Paul Jacob Naftel 1850 1859 John Lynch Naimaster 1974 (Hon) Frederick Nash 1810 1810 Joseph Nash 1834 1842 Jean Claude Nattes 1804 Norman Neasom 1978 1984 William Andrews Nesfield 1823 1823 John Newberry 1990 1994 Rika Newcombe 2019 Paul Newland 1989 1994 Alfred Pizzey Newton 1858 1879 Iain Nicholls 2015 Francis Nicholson 1804 Job Nixon 1928 1934 John Willian North ARA 1871 1883 Octavius Oakley 1842 1844 John O'Connor 1974 1982 Kenneth Herbert Oliver 1956 1974 Arnold Palmer 1957 (Hon) Samuel Palmer 1843 1854 Claire Parrish 2016 John Parker 1876 1881 Alfred William Parsons RA 1899 1905 David Paskett 2000 2001 James Paterson 1898 1908 David Payne 2009 2012 Henry Arthur Payne 1912 1920 William Payne 1809 1813 Muriel Alice Pemberton 1959 1974 Brian Hubert Perrin 1959 Colin Bent Phillip 1886 1898 Patrick Phillips 1968 1975 Constance Phillott 1882 Harry Philp 1957 (Hon) Simon John Pierse 2003 2007 Richard Pikesley 1997 2001 Wilmot Pilsbury 1881 1908 Geoffrey Pimlott 2006 2009 George John Pinwell 1869 1870 Neil Pittaway 2002 2005 John Piper 1980 (Hon) Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA 1957 1958 Thomas Plunkett 2008 2011 Nicholas Pocock 1804 Sir Francis Powell 1867 1876 Sir Edward John Poynter PRA 1883 1883 David Prentice 1998 William Lake Price 1837 Patrick Procktor RA 1981 (Hon) Margaret Fisher Prout ARA 1938 1945 Samuel Prout 1819 Augustus Charles de Pugin 1807 1812 Salliann Putman 1997 2000 George Pyne 1827 William Henry Pyne 1804 Peter Quinn 2007 2011 Arthur Rackham 1902 1908 Edward Radford 1875 Mark Raggett 2011 2013 Lady Patricia Ramsey 1940 1942 Nancy Rayner 1850 Samuel Rayner 1845 Samuel Read 1857 1880 Anne Redpath ARA 1962 Ramsey Richard Reinagle RA 1806 1806 Paul Regan 2019 David Remfry RA 1983 1987 Sir Albert Edward Richardson PRA 1953 (Hon) Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr 1843 1851 Robin Richmond 2018 Henry James Richter 1813 Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud 1805 Cuthbert Rigby 1877 Henry Parsons Riviere 1852 Jacqueline Lesley Rizvi 1983 1986 John Vivian Roberts 1958 1983 Charles Robertson 1885 1891 Stuart Robertson 2005 2008 William Palmer Robins 1948 1955 Frederick Cayley Robinson ARA 1911 1918 George Fennel Robson 1813 John Lewis Roget 1905 (Hon) Thomas Matthews Rooke 1891 1903 George Frederick Rosenberg 1847 Sir Henry Rowntree 1922 1926 Kenneth Rowntree 1943 Sula Rubens 2019 Sir Henry Rushbury RA 1922 1926 James Rushton 1987 1994 John Ruskin 1873 (Hon) James Allen Russell 2001 Sir Walter Westley Russell RA 1921 1930 Albert Daniel Rutherston 1934 1941 John Singer Sargent RA 1904 1908 Randolph Schwabe 1938 1942 Hans Schwarz 1982 1983 Mary (Mrs Brockbank) Scott 1823 William Henry Stothard Scott (of Brighton) 1811 Elizabeth Scott-Moore 1966 1975 Edward Brian Seago 1957 1959 Richard Harding Seddon 1972 1977 Baron Frederic Seebohm 1987 (Hon) Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac 1960 (Hon) William Selby 1987 1991 Prudence Eaton Seward 1967 1977 Paul Spencer Sharp 1956 1960 Eliza Sharpe 1829 Louisa Sharpe 1829 John Byam Liston Shaw 1913 Margaret Shaw 1962 1974 Nevil Shaw 1976 1983 Samuel Shelley Philip Desmond Shepherd 1977 1982 Maurice Raymond Sheppard 1974 1977 Claude Allin Shepperson ARA 1910 Frederick James Sheilds 1865 William Augustus Sillince 1949 1958 Lucien Jeanne Simon 1941 (Hon) Charles Sims RA 1911 1914 Charles Skilton 1973 (Hon) Joseph Edward Slater 1965 1974 Frederick Smallfield 1860 Arthur Reginald Smith 1917 1925 David Murray Smith 1916 1933 Erik Smith 1960 1971 John 'Warwick' Smith 1806 Stanley Smith 1987 1991 William Collingwood Smith 1843 1849 Lionel Percy Smythe RA 1892 1894 Minnie Smythe 1901 1937 Agathe Sorel 1998 2002 Alan Sorrell 1937 1942 Elizabeth Sorrell 1958 1966 Richard Sorrell 1975 1978 Joseph Edward Southall 1925 1931 Gilbert Spencer RA 1943 1949 Michael Spender 2000 (Hon) Sara Sproule 1968 1983 Leonard Russell Squirrell 1935 1941 James Stephanoff 1819 Francis Stevens 1806 1809 Charles Adrian Scott Stokes RA 1920 1926 Marianne Stokes 1923 Frank Stone RA 1833 1842 Trevor Stubley 1991 1995 Edmund Joseph Sullivan 1903 1929 Alice Macallan Swan 1903 1929 John Macallan Swan RA 1896 1899 Betty Swanwick RA 1976 John Frederick Tayler 1831 1834 Norman Tayler 1878 Jane Taylor 1985 1988 John Leslie Thomson 1910 1912 Baron George Edward Peter Thorneycroft 1982 (Hon) John Thurston 1806 Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd ARA 1929 1937 Francis William Topham 1848 1848 Lisa Traxler 2015 2017 Janet Treloar 2005 2008 Henry Scott Tuke RA 1904 1911 Katherine Turner 1914 William 'of Oxford' Tuner 1808 1808 Thomas Uwins RA 1809 1810 Cornelius Varley 1804 John Varley 1805 Joan Vernon-Cryer 1970 1976 Alexander Vorobyev 2005 2007 Sidney Curnow Vosper 1906 1914 William John Wainwright 1883 1905 Robert Thorne Waite 1876 1884 Frederick Walker ARA 1864 1866 William Walker 1820 William Eyre Walker 1880 1866 Sir Richard Wallace 1873 (Hon) Henry Wallis 1878 1880 Edward Arthur Walton 1917 John Ward RA 1952 1986 Thomas William Ward 1950 1957 Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow 1880 1894 Harry Watson 1915 1920 John Dawson Watson 1865 1870 Thomas J Watson 1880 Otto Weber 1876 Norman Webster 1966 1975 Ann Wegmuller 2001 2007 John Reinhard Weguelin 1894 1897 Carel Weight RA 1985 (Hon) William Frederick Wells 1804 Joseph Walter West 1901 1904 William Westall ARA 1810 1812 Henry Clarence Whaite 1872 1882 Grace Wheatley 1945 1952 Jenny Wheatley 1984 1987 John Wheatley ARA 1943 1947 Sir Charles Wheeler PRA 1957 (Hon) Charles John Mayle Whichelo 1823 David Whitaker 2001 Ethelbert White 1933 1939 James William Whittaker 1862 1864 Michael Whittlesea 1982 1985 Charles Wild 1809 1821 William Ainsworth Wildman 1939 Norman Wilkinson 1955 (Hon) Annie Williams 2003 2007 Charles Williams 2007 2010 Joan Williams 1971 1982 Penry Williams 1828 1833 Henry Brittan Willis 1862 1863 Andrew Wilton 1986 (Hon) Joseph Winkelman 1996 (Hon) William Thomas Wood 1913 1918 Leslie Charles Worth 1958 1967 John Masey Wright 1824 1824 John William Wright 1831 1824 Andrew Newell Wyeth 1986 (Hon) Gertie Young 2017 2018
