Heins, John Theodore, Sr., A Music Party at Melton Constable, 1734. Oil on canvas. National Trust, Seaton Delaval.

Gainsborough, Thomas, Study of a Music Party (inscribed “Portraits of Himself, His Two Daughters, and [Carl Friedrich] Abel by Gainsborough”), c. 1765–70. Red chalk on paper. British Museum, London.

Unknown artist, A Family Being Served with Tea, c. 1745. Oil on canvas. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

Attributed to Sigmund Freudenberger (1745–1801), Duet for Violin and Harpsichord (n.d.). Pen and black ink and watercolor on paper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Ekels, Jan II, Portrait of an Unknown Family, 1785. Oil on canvas. Whereabouts unknown (sold Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 16 November 1994, lot 84).

Dequevauviller, François Nicolas Barthélemy, after Nicolas Lavreince, Gathering at the Concert, 1784. Etching and engraving. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

della Croce, Johann Nepomuk, Portrait of the Mozart Family, 1780–81. Oil on canvas. Mozarteum Stiftung, Salzburg.

Delacroix, Eugène, Musical Gathering, 1808–63. Pencil on paper. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Chodowiecki, Daniel, “Singing,” from Occupation des dames, 1781. Engraving published in Almanac de Berlin (Berlin, 1781).

Chodowiecki, Daniel, “Music,” from Occupation des dames. Engraving published in Almanac de Berlin (Berlin, 1781).