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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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| 1759 |
| | Staffordshire potter Josiah Wedgwood sets up a factory of his own in his home town of Burslem | |
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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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| 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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| 1789 |
| | England's champion pugilist, the Jewish prize-fighter Daniel Mendoza, publishes The Art of Boxing | |
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| 1790 |
| | English painter J.M.W. Turner is only 15 when a painting of his, a watercolour, is first exhibited at the Royal Academy | |
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| c. 1792 |
| | Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch | |
| | Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating (detail) National Gallery of Scotland
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