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View of a Venetian canal with a bell tower, gondolas, and workers among stone blocks under a cloudy sky.

Venice: Saint Vidal Square and Santa Maria Della Carità Church

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1725

Portrait of a woman with three young sons, one infant in her lap, with a red macaw on a pedestal and red drapery behind.

Lady Cockburn and her Three Eldest Sons

Joshua Reynolds, 1773

Candlelit scene of a scientist demonstrating an air pump experiment on a bird in a glass globe, watched by an attentive group

An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright 'of Derby', 1768. The original is in The National Gallery, Lo…

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768

Painting of Eton College's Gothic chapel across a river, with figures on the bank and a rowing boat in the foreground.

Eton College

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1746

Three women in period dress garland a classical bust with flowers beside a gilded urn in a wooded setting.

Three Ladies Adorning a Herm of Hymen

Joshua Reynolds, 1773

Pastel portrait of a young girl in a blue dress holding a grey kitten against a blue background.

A Girl with a Kitten

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, 1743

Hogarth interior with four figures, a seated gentleman, a standing woman in black and red, a man in brown, a girl, and skelet

Marriage A-la-Mode: 3, The Inspection

William Hogarth, 1743

Man in black cloak holds lamp and covers his mouth, startled by shadowy horse-like forms in a dark room.

The Bewitched Man

Francisco Goya, 1798

Chestnut horse rearing on hind legs against a plain olive background, with a flowing pale tail and mane.

Whistlejacket

George Stubbs, 1762

Interior scene of an 18th-century aristocratic morning reception with musicians, a hairdresser, and elegantly dressed figures

Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette

William Hogarth, 1743

Painting of a man reading a scroll to a laurel-crowned ruler while a swooning woman is supported in a columned Roman hall.

Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia

Jean-Joseph Taillasson, 1787

Painting of a crowd hauling a large white wooden horse on wheels through a city with stone walls and classical buildings.

The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1760

Hogarth interior scene: a woman slumps in a chair with a child, attended by men and an old woman, a dog at a table by a windo

Marriage à la Mode, Plate 6, (The Death of the Countess)

William Hogarth, 1743

Portrait of a standing man and seated woman in a landscape with an oak tree, wheat sheaves and a dog beside them.

Mr. und Mrs. Andrews

Thomas Gainsborough, 1750

Painting of peers in red robes crowding around a collapsed man in a dim, ornate chamber with a canopied throne.

The Collapse of the Earl of Chatham in the House of Lords, 7 April 1778

John Singleton Copley, 1779

Painting of a fashionable couple in a disordered drawing room, with a man by the fireplace and a woman at a tea table.

Marriage A-la-Mode: 2, The Tête à Tête

William Hogarth, 1743

Painting of a wooded landscape with tall trees, a dirt path, small figures resting, and a stormy grey sky.

Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk

Thomas Gainsborough, 1748

View through a stone arch of Venice's Piazza San Marco with the basilica, bell tower and strolling figures.

Venice: Piazza San Marco

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1758

Loose painted portrait of a smiling young woman in a wide-brimmed hat and white bonnet, with a shawl.

The Shrimp Girl

William Hogarth, 1740

Couple walking a woodland path with a white dog; the woman wears a large black feathered hat and pale gown.

Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk')

Thomas Gainsborough, 1785

Painting of a crowded regatta on the Venice Grand Canal, with gondolas, decorated boats and palazzi lined with spectators.

Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1735

Hogarth's 1743 interior scene of gentlemen and a woman at a table with papers, dogs and gilt-framed paintings on the wall.

Marriage A-la-Mode: 1, The Marriage Settlement

William Hogarth, 1743

Watteau painting of a man playing lute beside a seated woman reading sheet music in a wooded garden with a bust.

The Scale of Love

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1717

Painting of a festive regatta on a broad canal lined with palaces, with gondolas, decorated boats and crowds of spectators.

A Regatta on the Grand Canal

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1740

Dimly lit interior with a kneeling woman, a wounded man clutching his side, a dropped sword, and a lantern-bearing figure at

Marriage A-la-Mode: 5, The Bagnio

William Hogarth, 1743

Oil portrait of a woman in a straw hat with flowers and feathers, holding a painter's palette against a blue sky.

Self Portrait in a Straw Hat

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1782

Painting of fashionable visitors in an ornate circular rotunda with a central pavilion, chandeliers and a musicians' gallery.

London: Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1754

Painting of a brick city gate with soldiers, a friar carrying a large beef joint, and ragged figures in a crowded street.

The Roast Beef of Old England, also called The Gate of Calais, was painted by Hogarth in 1748

William Hogarth, 1748

Painting of women in a colonnaded hall, one raising a sword as a bearded man points, with a helmet and lyre on the floor.

Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes - Angelica Kauffmann (National Gallery NG6710)

Angelica Kauffmann, 1787

Painting of Venice's Piazza San Marco with St Mark's Basilica, a tall campanile, arcade and elegantly dressed figures.

Venice: The Piazza San Marco

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1756