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| Anonymous French Artist Portrait of a Gentleman in a Library ca. 1760-61 oil on canvas Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Essex |
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| François de Troy Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old Pretender" as an adolescent in exile) 1701 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Joseph Highmore Portrait of a Gentleman in a Brown Velvet Coat 1747 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Prince Hoare George Fulke Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Westcote of Ballymore 1784 oil on canvas National Trust, Stourhead, Wiltshire |
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| John Hoppner Portrait of Hugo Meynell ca. 1789 oil on canvas Temple Newsam House, Leeds |
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| Thomas Hudson William Howard, Viscount Andover ca. 1745 oil on canvas Kenwood House, London |
from Contemporaries and Snobs
There's a structure for idiocy – lamplight –
all over the nation; it's an illumination
with such sheer creative force it is misrecognized genius.
I have misunderstood people's duplicitous ways – their lightbulbs –
as righteous forms of complexity;
not calculated obfuscations.
Much like the voice in a poem that insists it sing
the most important seer of light.
Am I providing this luxury as well?
– Prageeta Sharma (2013)
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| Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Étienne-François, duc de Choiseul-Stainville 1786 oil on canvas National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire |
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| Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Louis de Visme ca. 1760 oil on canvas Christ Church, University of Oxford |
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| Arthur Pond Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan ca. 1750 oil on canvas Oriel College, University of Oxford |
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| Allan Ramsay Portrait of King George III ca. 1760-65 oil on canvas Bank of England Museum, London |
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| attributed to Francesco Trevisani George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal ca. 1710-12 oil on canvas University of Aberdeen, Scotland |
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| Pieter van der Werff Portrait of a Gentleman 1704 oil on canvas Fairfax House, York |
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| Jean-Baptiste Van Loo Portrait of James Burrow ca. 1742 oil on canvas The Royal Society, London |
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| Jan van Rymsdyk Portrait of Dr William Barrett 1764 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| attributed to John Wootton John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy, 3rd Earl Breadalbane ca. 1730 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |