Gray's circle

Thomas Ashton: Portrait (1763) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

Richard Bentley: Portrait by John Giles Eccardt (d. 1779) - in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Charles Victor de Bonstetten: Portrait of the sitter as Hamlet, artist unknown - in the possession of M. Wolfgang de Reding-Biberegg

John Chute: From a painting (1758) by Gabriel Mathias (1719-1804) - in the Further Drawing Room at the Vyne, The National Trust

John Chute: Portrait by Johann Heinrich Müntz (1727-1798) - The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London

William Cole: From an engraving by Georg Siegmund Facius (c. 1750-1814) - after a painting by Thomas Kerrich (1748-1828)

William Mason: Detail of a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

William Mason: Silhouette of the sitter copying the Venus de Medici by Francis Mapletoft - Courtauld Institute of Art

William Mason: Portrait of the sitter holding a copy of the epitaph on his wife - from a painting possibly by Peter Falconet, in the possession of Viscount Harcourt

Henrietta Jane Speed: Portrait by Peter Falconet, in the possession of Dr Brian Rhodes - the painting obviously depicts her as she looked later in her life as Comtesse de Viry, many years after her first meeting with Gray in 1750 when she was 22

Richard Stonhewer: Portrait (1775) by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) - in the possession of the Duke of Grafton

Horace Walpole: Painting of the sitter aged 10 (1727-28) by William Hogarth (1697-1764) - The Bridgeman Art Library

Horace Walpole: Portrait by John Giles Eccardt (d. 1779) - in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Horace Walpole: Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) - in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Horace Walpole: Sitter in the library at Strawberry Hill, by Johann Heinrich Müntz (1727-1798) - from the water-colour drawing, 1756, in the possession of Com. Colin Campbell-Johnston (1960)

Horace Walpole: Painting of the sitter (c. 1741) by Rosalba Giovanni Carriera (1675-1757) - The Bridgeman Art Library

Horace Walpole: From a pastel by Rosalba Giovanni Carriera (1675-1757) - in the possession of Lord Walpole

Horace Walpole: From a painting (c. 1734) by Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) - in the possession of the Earl of Waldegrave