1756 Portrait of Maria Theresa of Habsburg, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and their Thirteen Children (detail). By Martin van Meytens - Uffizi Gallery.

1750 Portrait of Ambassador PG Chernyshev with his Family. By David Luders.

1754 Portrait of an English Gentleman. By Anton Raphael Mengs - Rhode Island School of Design Museum.

1755-1760 french robe à la française (back view). Made of ivory silk brocade, lace, passementerie. Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

1753-1755 Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress. By unknown Dutch School artist - Bowes Museum.

1753 Jean-Baptiste Oudry. By Jean-Baptiste Perronneau.

1754 Portrait of James Adam. By Allan Ramsay - Laing Art Gallery.

1757 William Fermor. By Anton Raphael Mengs - Ashmolean Museum.

1757 Anastasia Ivanovna, Countess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya. By Alexander Roslin - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

1755-1760 Family in an Interior with Squirrels, possibly the Burton Family from Eltham, Kent. By Philippe Mercier - Louvre Museum.

1758 Miss Maria Elizabeth Boothby. By Joshua Reynolds - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

c. 1755? Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount Irwin and His Wife Anne. By Philippe Mercier - Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums and Galleries.

1745-1755 Portrait of a Gentleman writing in a book by French School Bowes Museum.

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1757- An official Boston document notes the "great Number of poor... who can scarcely procure, from day to day daily Bread for themselves & Families."

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