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| Allan Ramsay Portrait of Miss Janet Shairp 1750 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery |
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| Arthur Devis Portrait of Mary Cawthorne (Mrs. Morley Unwin) ca. 1750 oil on canvas National Trust, Knightshayes Court, Devon |
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| Richard Wilson Portrait of Sir Edward Lloyd 1750 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Thomas Lister ca. 1752 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| François Boucher Setting of the Sun 1752 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Francis Hayman Robert Lovelace preparing to abduct Clarissa Harlowe (scene from Samuel Richardson's Clarissa) 1753 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire |
from Clarissa
"I knew that the whole stupid family were in a combination to do my business for me. I told thee that they were all working for me, like so many underground moles, and still more blind than the moles are said to be, unknowing that they did so – I myself the director of their principal motions, which (falling in with the malice of their little hearts) they took to be all their own. Did I say my joy was perfect? Oh no, it receives some abatement from my disgusted pride, for how can I endure to think that I owe more to her relations' persecutions than to her favour to me, or even, as far as I know, to her preference of me to another man? But let me not indulge this thought. Were I to do so, it might cost my charmer dear. Let me rejoice that she has passed the Rubicon, that she cannot return, that, as I have ordered it, the flight will appear to the implacables to be altogether with her own consent, and that, if I doubt her love, I can put her to trials as mortifying to her niceness as glorious to my pride. For let me tell thee, dearly as I love her, if I thought there was but the shadow of a doubt in her mind whether she preferred me to any man living, I would show her no mercy. Take care! Take care, oh beloved of my soul, for jealous is the heart in which love has erected a temple to thee."
– Samuel Richardson (1748)
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| Pompeo Batoni Portrait of James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount Charlemont ca. 1753-56 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Joseph Boze Marie-Joséphine-Louise de Savoie, comtesse de Provence (later Queen of France) 1753 oil on canvas National Trust, Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire |
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| Joseph Boze Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, comte de Provence (later Louis XVIII, King of France) 1753 oil on canvas National Trust, Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire |
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| Nathaniel Hone Portrait of David Colyear, Viscount Milsington 1755 oil on canvas National Trust, Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, Wales |
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| François-Hubert Drouais The Prince de Guémenée and Mademoiselle de Soubise (dressed as Grape Harvesters) 1757 oil on canvas National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire |
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| François-Hubert Drouais The Prince and Princess Condé (dressed as Gardeners) 1757 oil on canvas National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire |
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| Anton Raphael Mengs Robert Stewart, later 1st Marquess of Londonderry ca. 1758 oil on canvas National Trust, Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland |
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| Gavin Hamilton James Dawkins and Robert Wood discovering the Ruins of Palmyra 1758 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Tilly Kettle Portrait of Doctor Daniel Lysons 1759 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |