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Morpheus, c. 1771 Jean-Bernard Restout 

Cornerstones of the same gateway painted by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778)

Miss Nelly O'Brien, 1764, Joshua Reynolds

Medium: oil,canvas

Moses Mendelssohn by Anton Graff (1771). Jewish Museum Berlin.

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (c. 1788) by Anton Graff. Broomhall House, Fife.

Portrait of Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1797) by William Beechey. Royal Collection.

Prospero Lambertini aka Pope Benedict XIV (1746) by Pierre Subleyras. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (c. 1705) by Godfrey Kneller. National Portrait Gallery.

Lady Amelia Anne Hobart, later Marchioness of Londonderry (1794) by Thomas Lawrence. Blicking Hall, Norfolk.

Pinkie (1794) by Thomas Lawrence. Huntington Library.

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Hannover (1789) by Thomas Lawrence. National Gallery.

Princess Louise of Prussia (1770-1836) (1801) by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Baronne de Crussol (1785) by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. Musée des Augustins de Toulouse.

Self-portrait in a straw hat (c. 1782) by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. National Gallery.

Portrait of Countess Natalya Vladimirovna Saltykov (1780) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Hermitage Museum.

Portrait of Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1775) by Anton Graff. Neue Pinakothek.

Portrait of Olympe de Gouges by Alexander Kucharsky (Couaski) (1741-1819). Private collection.

George Nassau Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper (1738-1789) by Johann Zoffany.

The Artist's Studio (1760) by Hubert Robert. Städelsches Kunstinstitut.

Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767) by Louis-Michel van Loo. Musée du Louvre.