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| c. 1759 |
| | | Portrait-painter Thomas Gainsborough moves from Suffolk to set up a studio in fashionable Bath | |
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| c. 1760 |
| | | German painter Johann Zoffany moves to England to find work as a painter of conversation pieces and portraits | |
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| 1763 |
| | | American artist Benjamin West settles in London, where he becomes famous for his large-scale history scenes | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Catherine the Great founds the Hermitage as a court museum attached to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg | |
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| 1768 |
| | | The Royal Academy is established in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first president | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Thomas Gainsborough moves from Bath to set up a studio in London | |
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| 1775 |
| | | John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London | |
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| 1778 |
| | | In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings | |
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| 1778 |
| | | 15-year-old Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun earns enough from painting portraits to support the rest of her family | |
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| 1783 |
| | | Jacques-Louis David, establishing a reputation with his severe classical paintings, is elected to the French academy | |
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