John Wollaston was an English painter of portraits who was active in the British colonies in North America for much of his career. He was one of a handful of painters to introduce the English Rococo style to the American colonies.
Portrait of a Woman, 1749/1752, oil on canvas, in the Art Institute of Chicago
Early Wollaston: Unidentified British Navy Officer, c. 1745, oil on canvas, in the National Gallery of Art
Mann Page and His Sister Elizabeth, John Wollaston, circa 1757. Virginia Historical Society
Warner Lewis II and Rebecca Lewis, on loan to Virginia Historical Society
Josef van Aken, known in England as Joseph van Aken and Joseph Van Aken of Heacken was a Flemish genre, portrait and drapery painter who spent most of his career in England. Initially successful in England with his fashionable conversation pieces and other genre scenes, he gradually specialised as a drapery painter. Drapery painters were specialist painters who completed the dress, costumes and other accessories worn by the subjects of portrait paintings. They worked for portrait painters with a large clientele. He was recognised as one of the foremost drapery painters active in mid-18th-century England and was employed in that capacity by many leading and lesser known portrait painters of his time.
Joseph Van Aken by Thomas Hudson, c. 1745
Saying Grace
Tea party, 1720s
The Old Stocks Market in London