Before passing on to the period of Hogarth and the creation of the English school, we may mention a few names of painters in England. These were JOHN RILEY (1646--1691); JAMES PARMENTIER (1658--1730); WILLIAM AIKMAN (1682--1731); MARY BEALE (1632--1697); JOHN CLOSTERMANN (1656--1713); MICHAEL DAHL (1656--1743); GERARD VON SOEST (1637--1681); JOHN VANDERBANK (1694?--1739); WILLIAM WISSING (1656--1687); JOSEPH MICHAEL WRIGHT (1625?--1700?), a pupil of Jamesone; JONATHAN RICHARDSON (1665--1745), a pupil of Riley; CHARLES JERVAS (1675--1739), a follower of Kneller, and the friend of Pope, who, with the fulsome flattery of the day, compared him to Zeuxis. GEORGE KNAPTON (1698--1778) was famous for crayon portraits; a large group, in oils, representing the Princess of Wales and her family, by his hand, is at Hampton Court. In the middle of the eighteenth century, THOMAS HUDSON (1701--1779) became the fashionable portrait painter. His chief remaining claim to fame is that he was the first master of Joshua Reynolds. FRANCIS HAYMAN (1708--1776) lived long enough to write himself R.A. among the earliest members. His _Finding of Moses_ may be seen at the Foundling Hospital; and his own portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. He seems to have been highly esteemed, and, among other works, executed some for Vauxhall Gardens. His fame is now almost as extinct as the lamps of that once famous place of entertainment. [Illustration] CHAPTER III. ENGLISH ART IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY--WILLIAM HOGARTH.