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| Thomas Duncan Group of Casts of Famous Antique Sculptures ca. 1830 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Thomas Bromley Blacklock Head of the Venus de' Medici (from a Cast) ca. 1890 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| G.B. Wilson Study of a Cast of the Venus de Milo 1922 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Ivor Williams Cast of a Classical Female Head ca. 1930-50 oil on canvas Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries, Wales |
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| Ivor Williams Cast of a Statue of a Kneeling Angel ca. 1930-50 oil on canvas Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries, Wales |
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| Anthony Devas Study of a Mask (after a Cast) 1933 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| John Turner Satyr (after a Cast from the Antique) 1942 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Sylvia Lake Armstrong The Discobolus (after a Cast from the Antique) 1945 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
"Since antiquity, plaster has been used to replicate art works, in particular sculptures in the round and reliefs. To this purpose a mold (negative) is taken from the object (positive). . . . Mold-making is the most complicated, work-intensive and expensive step in the production of a plaster cast. . . . The process of casting itself is much less work-intensive. The mold is filled with plaster powder dissolved in water. Once the plaster has hardened and the mold been removed, a same-scale replica of the original has been created. This process can be repeated numerous times with near-identical results. . . . From the 15th century, casts were commonly included in the private collections of scholars, artists, aristocrats and royal figures in Europe. These replicas constituted an early canon of what came to be seen as masterworks of the ancient Greek and Roman world. Such collections were central to the establishment of royal and courtly academies of art, and to the broader evolution of European art education."
– from an anonymous article describing the cast collection at Cornell University
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| Celia Margaret James Study of a Torso (after a Cast) 1947 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Charles Oakley Study of Casts after the Antique 1951 oil on panel University College London Art Museum |
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| Frank Walton Study of Casts of Renaissance Portrait Busts 1951 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
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| Cordelia Margaret Jones Study of a Cast of the Borghese Gladiator 1957 oil on panel University College London Art Museum |
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| Michael Wharton Study of Casts after the Antique 1958 oil on panel University College London Art Museum |
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| Gwendoline Sally Martinez Torso (after a Cast) 1961 oil on panel University College London Art Museum |
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| Victor Davidson Study of a Cast after the Antique 1970 oil on panel Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |