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| Robert Fagan Bacchic Celebrations (after an antique relief in marble) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Robert Fagan Dionysus, Bacchus, Ampelos, Silenus and Maenad (after an antique relief in marble) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Francis Hayman Emperor Constantine sacrificing to Diana (after relief-figures on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) before 1776 oil on panel National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norwich |
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| Robert Fagan Personification of Autumn with Hercules carrying the Cretan Bull (after an antique relief in marble) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Robert Fagan Marriage of Peleus and Thetis (after an antique relief in marble) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Francis Hayman Emperor Trajan sacrificing to Mars Victorious (after relief-figures on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) before 1776 oil on panel National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norwich |
"In the second half of the eighteenth century a traveller could write that "Rome is the first world which we have known, and a world which History, Eloquence, Poetry and all the most seductive arts vied with each other to embellish. It is a world in which the only foreigners are those who are foreigners to letters and all useful and agreeable knowledge," and he quoted the famous lines of Montaigne's Essays written nearly two hundred years earlier: "I was familiar with the affairs of Rome long before I was with those of my own house. I knew the Capitol and its position before I knew the Louvre, and the Tiber before the Seine. I have meditated more on the conditions and fortunes of Lucullus, Metellus and Scipio than I have about many of our own men."
– Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique (Yale University Press, 1981)
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| Robert Fagan Paetus and Arria (after an antique sculpture group) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Robert Fagan Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus, known as Pasquino Group (after an antique sculpture group) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Francis Hayman Figures crowning a statue of Hercules (after relief-figures on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) before 1776 oil on panel National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norwich |
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| Robert Fagan Orestes and Electra (after an antique sculpture group) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Robert Fagan Castor and Pollux (after an antique sculpture group) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Francis Hayman Mercury delivering a Message to Jupiter and Juno, with Neptune in attendance (after an antique relief in Museo Angelonio, Rome) before 1776 oil on panel National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norwich |
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| Robert Fagan Cupid and Psyche (after an antique sculpture group) ca. 1793-95 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Francis Hayman Sacrifice to Apollo (after relief-figures on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) before 1776 oil on panel National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norwich |
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| George Barret the Younger and William Barret Bacchus enthroned, served by Boys with attendant Bacchantes (after an antique relief in marble) 1795 oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |