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| Domenico Duprà Portrait of an English Gentleman on the Grand Tour 1741 oil on canvas Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara |
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| Jean-Baptiste Van Loo Portrait of Sir Thomas Hales ca. 1740 oil on canvas Canterbury Museums and Galleries, Kent |
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| William Hogarth Portrait of a Lady ca. 1740 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Domenico Duprà Portrait of James Carnegie of Boysack on the Grand Tour 1739 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
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| John Vanderbank Portrait of a Woman in White 1738 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of Giambattista Sartori 1737 pastel Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of Lucietta Sartori 1737 pastel Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo Portrait of Cecilia Guardi Tiepolo 1737 pastel Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
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| John Vanderbank Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield 1736 oil on canvas National Trust, Plas Newydd, Wales |
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| Jonathan Richardson, Senior Portrait of the artist's son, Jonathan Richardson, Junior in his Study ca. 1734 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Jacobus Houbraken after Hendrik van den Bos Portrait of artist Romeyn de Hooghe 1733 engraving Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection, Rijswijk |
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| Christian Friedrich Zincke Portrait of Mrs John Vanderbank, wife of the painter ca. 1730 enamel miniature Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| John Vanderbank Portrait of Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, later 7th Duke of Somerset ca. 1720 oil on canvas National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex |
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| Benedetto Luti Head of a Woman 1719 pastel Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Trevisani Self Portrait ca. 1710 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
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| Bernard Picart Self Portrait ca. 1710 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"Portrait painting ever has and ever will succeed better in this country [England] than in any other; the demand will be as constant as new faces arise; and with this we must be contented, for it will be in vain to attempt to force what can never be accomplished; or at least can never be accomplished by such institutions as Royal Academies on the system now in agitation. Upon the whole, it must be acknowledged that the artists and the age are fitted for each other. If hereafter the times alter, the arts, like water, will find their level."
"Among other causes that militate against either painting or sculpture succeeding in this nation, we must place our religion; which, inculcating unadorned simplicity, doth not require, nay absolutely forbids, images for worship, or pictures to excite enthusiasm. Paintings are considered as pieces of furniture, and Europe is already overstocked with the works of other ages. These, with copies, countless as the sands on the sea shore, are bartered to and fro, and are quite sufficient for the demands of the curious; who naturally prefer scarce, expensive, and far-fetched productions, to those which they might have on low terms at home."
– William Hogarth, from Of Academies (ca. 1760)