Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a Frenchpainterof portraits,genre scenes, andhistory painting.
Dmytro Levytsky was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter.
David Morier was an Anglo-Swiss painter of portraits, military subjects and historical scenes around and after the time of the War of the Austrian Succession and the related Jacobite rising of 1745.
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.
Hendrik Voogd was a Dutch painter and printmaker, who was active in Italy.
Francisco Vieira, who choose the artistic name of Vieira Portuense, was a Portuguese painter, one of the introducers of Neoclassicism in Portuguese painting.
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century.
Lemuel Francis Abbott was an English portrait painter, famous for his likeness of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century.
Gilbert Charles Stuart was an American painter from Rhode Island who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Madame Lebrun or Madame Le Brun, was a prominent French portrait painter of the late eighteenth century.
José Campeche y Jordán, is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas.
Ralph Earl was an American painter known for his portraits, of which at least 183 can be documented.
Luis Paret y Alcázar was a Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
Anne Vallayer-Coster was an 18th-century French painter best known for still lifes.
John Russell RA was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.
Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist.
Benjamin West PRA was an Anglo-American history painter around and after the time of the American War of Independence and the Seven Years' War.
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov was a distinguished Russian painter who specialized in portraits.
Joseph, Baron Ducreux was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and resumed his career after the French Revolution.
George Romney was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson.
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution.
Francisco Bayeu y Subias was a Spanish painter, active in a Neoclassic style, whose main subjects were religious and historical themes.
Hubert Robert was a French painter, noted for his landscape paintings and capriccio, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism.
Carl-Ludwig Christinek was a Russian painter.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.
Thomas Gainsborough FRSA was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.
William Williams was an English/American painter who wrote a novel, The Journal of Llewellin Penrose, Seaman, considered by many to be the first American novel.
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis was a French painter known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits.
Johann Anton de Peters was a German painter and etcher.
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century.
Bernardo Bellotto,, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities.
Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter, was born at Montpellier. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791.
Richard Wilson RA was an influential Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy.
Allan Ramsay was a prominent Scottish portrait-painter. Allan Ramsay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest son of Allan Ramsay, poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd.
Carle or Charles-André van Loo was a French subject painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo.
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels. Among his most famous subjects were Voltaire, Rousseau, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour.
Jean-Étienne Liotard was a Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer. He is best known for his portraits in pastel, and for the works from his stay in Turkey.
François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style.
Pietro Longhi was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life. Pietro Longhi was born in Venice in the parish of Saint Maria, first child of the silversmith Alessandro Falca and his wife, Antonia.
George Lambert was an English landscape artist and theatre scene painter. With Richard Wilson he is recognised as a pioneer of English landscape in art, for its own sake.
William Hogarth FRSA was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain.
François Lemoyne or François Le Moine was a French rococo painter. He was a winner of the Prix de Rome, professor of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, and Premier peintre du Roi to Louis XV. He was tutor to Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game.
Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter, was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier, a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois, a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire.
Jean-Antoine Watteau, better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens.
Jean-Baptiste van Loo was a French subject and portrait painter. He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo, son of Jacob van Loo.
Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. It is for this that she was able to establish a career in portraiture.
Antoine Pesne was a French-born court painter of Prussia. Starting in the manner of baroque, he became one of the fathers of rococo in painting. His work represents a link between the French school and the Frederican rococo style.
Johann Georg Pinsel was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor of German or Czech origin active in Red Ruthenia.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities.
Giovanni Antonio Canal , better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of city views or vedute, of Venice, Rome, and London.
Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the second president, succeeding Tiepolo.
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, also known as Baciccio or Baciccia, was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods.