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| 1632 |
| | | Van Dyck moves to London and becomes portrait painter to the British court and aristocracy | |
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| 1636 |
| | | A painted ceiling by Rubens, celebrating the Stuart dynasty, is installed in the Banqueting House in Whitehall | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Wood-carver Grinling Gibbons arrives from Holland to begin an immensely successful career in England | |
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| c. 1720 |
| | | Canaletto begins to specialize in views of the Venetian canals, finding his main customers among the British | |
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| 1731 |
| | | The Flemish-born sculptor Michael Rysbrack creates a momument to Newton in Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1740 |
| | | Jack Broughton, champion of England, opens an academy to teach 'the mystery of boxing, that wholly British art' | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English gardener Lancelot Brown sets up in business as a freelance 'improver of grounds', and soon acquires the nickname Capablity Brown | |
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| 1757 |
| | | English painter Joseph Wright sets up a studio in his home town, Derby | |
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| c. 1758 |
| | | Joshua Reynolds, by now the most fashionable portrait painter in London, copes with as many as 150 sitters in a year | |
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| 1758 |
| | | Liverpool-born artist George Stubbs sets up in London as a painter, above all, of people and horses | |
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