Artists
- Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724–1772), noted portraitist in the United States
- John Alexander ( -1733), painter and engraver
- David Allan (1744–1796), painter of historical subjects
- Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher
- Mark Boyle (1934–2005)
- Robert Brough (1872–1905), painter
- John Byrne (born 1940)
- James Cadenhead (1858–1927), painter
- George Paul Chalmers (1836–1878), painter
- Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)
- Jack M. Ducker (1890-unknown), painter who specialized in highland landscapes
- Ian Fairweather (1891–1974), Scottish/Australian painter
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), sculptor and installation artist
- John Watson Gordon (1788–1864), painter
- James Guthrie (1859–1930), painter
- George Heriot (1563–1624), Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist
- Peter Howson (born 1958)
- John Kelso Hunter (1802–1873), self-taught portrait painter and author of two books
- Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
- John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948)
- James McBey (1883-1959) painter, etcher and war artist
- Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)
- Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)
- Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- James MacGillivray, sculptor (1856–1938)
- David Mach (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
- William MacTaggart (1903–1981), landscape painter
- R. R. McIan (1803–1856), painter
- William McTaggart (1835–1910), landscape painter
- William Miller, engraver (1796–1882)
- Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), landscape painter
- Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
- John Pettie (1839–1893), painter
- Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), portrait painter
- John Robertson Reid (1851–1926), painter
- Alexander Runciman (1736–1785), painter of historical and mythological subjects
- Archibald Skirving (1749–1819), Scottish portrait painter
- Reverend John Thomson (1778–1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
- Jack Vettriano (born 1951)
- Alison Watt (1965- ), painter
- David Wilkie (1785–1841), painter
- Christopher Wood (born 1962), contemporary abstract landscape painter
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“The past is interesting not only for the beauty which the artists for whom it was the present were able to extract from it, but also as past, for its historical value. The same goes for the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty in which it may be clothed, but also from its essential quality of being present.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“When ... did the word “temperament” come into fashion with us?... whatever it stands for, it long since became a great social asset for women, and a great social excuse for men. Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“of artists dying in childbirth, wise-women charred at the stake,
centuries of books unwritten piled behind these shelves;
and we still have to stare into the absence
of men who would not, women who could not, speak
to our life—this still unexcavated hole
called civilization, this act of translation, this half-world.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)