Peter Howson

Peter Howson OBE (b. 1958) is a Scottish painter. He was the British official war artist in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War.

His work has encompassed a number of themes. His early works are typified by very masculine working class men, most famously in The Heroic Dosser (1987). Later he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum of London, to be the official war artist for the Bosnian/Hercegovina under Serbian and Croatian aggression in 1993.