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| Antoine Coysevox Marie Serre 1706 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Austrian Artist Portrait Bust of a Man in Armour ca. 1710-20 marble Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Jean-Louis Lemoyne Jacques-Rolland Moreau 1712 marble Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Michiel van der Voort the Elder Jacobus Franciscus van Caverson ca. 1713 marble Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| David Le Marchand King George I ca. 1714 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Giuseppe Mazzuoli Cardinal Bernardino Panciatichi 1714 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
"He that stands to contemplate the crowds that fill the streets of a populous city will see many passengers whose air and motion it will be difficult to behold without contempt and laughter; but if he examines what are the appearances that thus powerfully excite his risibility, he will find among them neither poverty nor disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect. The disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mien, by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance."
"It has, I think, been sometimes urged in favor of affectation that it is only a mistake of the means to a good end, and that the intention with which it is practiced is always to please. If all attempts to innovate the constitutional or habitual character have really proceeded from public spirit and love of others, the world has hitherto been sufficiently ungrateful, since no return but scorn has yet been made to the most difficult of all enterprises, a contest with nature; nor has any pity been shown to the fatigues of labor which never succeeded, and the uneasiness of disguise by which nothing was concealed."
"It seems therefore to be determined by the general suffrage of mankind that he who decks himself in adscititious qualities rather purposes to command applause than impart pleasure; and he is therefore treated as a man who by an unreasonable ambition usurps the place in society to which he has no right. Praise is seldom paid with willingness even to incontestable merit, and it can be no wonder that he who calls for it without desert is repulsed with universal indignation."
– Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (3 December 1751)
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| Camillo Rusconi Study for Bust of Pope Gregory XIII ca. 1718 terracotta Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Robert Le Lorrain Portrait Bust of a Young Girl ca. 1720 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli Peter the Great 1723-29 bronze Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| attributed to François Coudray Prince Eugene of Savoy 1724 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Carl August von Lücke Portrait Bust of a Lady ca. 1725-30 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Guillaume Coustou the Elder Samuel Bernard ca. 1727 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Michael Rysbrack Alexander Pope 1730 marble National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Peter Anton von Verschaffelt Bust of an Englishman in Rome 1740 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| workshop of Henry Cheere Colley Cibber ca. 1740 painted plaster National Portrait Gallery, London |