the Royal Academy Alexander Cozens (c. 1717 – 1786) – British landscape painter in watercolours and a published teacher of painting Charles Brooking (1723–1759) – English painter Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) – English painter specialising in portraits George Stubbs (1724–1806) – British painter especially of horses Francis Cotes (1726–1770) – English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) – English portrait and landscape painter Paul Sandby (1730–1809) – English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) – English animal painter Johann Zoffany (1733–1810) – German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England George Romney (1734–1802) – English portrait painter Joseph Wright (1734–1797) – English landscape and portrait painter Alexander Runciman (1736–1785) – Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects Mary Black (c.1737–1814) – English portrait painter Joseph Nollekens (1737–1823) – sculptor from London Francis Towne (1739/40–1816) – English watercolour painter Angelica Kauffman (1740–1807) – Swiss-Austrian painter Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) – English artist of French origin William Marlow (1740–1813) – English landscape and marine artist John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) – British Neoclassical painter especially of romantic paintings Matthew William Peters (1742–1814) English portrait painter James Barry (1741–1806) – Irish painter Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) – British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin Richard Cosway (1742–1821) – English portrait painter, miniaturist Ozias Humphry (1742–1810) – English painter of portrait miniatures John Robert Cozens (1752–1797) – English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) – English wood engraver and ornithologist Thomas Stothard (1755–1834 – English painter and engraver Prince Hoare (1755–1834) – painter and dramatist Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) – Scottish portrait painter Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) – English artist and caricaturist William Blake (1757–1827) – English poet, painter, and printmaker Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840) – Scottish portrait and landscape painter Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) – English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – English painter, mostly of portraits Charles Fairfield (1761?–1805) – English painter, mostly known as a copyist John Charles Felix Rossi (1762–1839) – sculptor Arthur William Devis (1762–1822) – English painter of history paintings and portraits George Morland (1763–1804) – English painter of animals and rustic scenes Joshua Cristall (1767–1847) – Cornish watercolour painter John Crome (1768–1821) – English artist, founder of the Norwich school of painters James Ward (1769–1859) – English painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) – English portrait and subject painter Henry James Richter (1772–1857) – engraver and painter François Hüet Villiers (1772–1813)