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Combining some of these, he contributed 31 pictures to a 1744 edition of Shakespeare's plays by Sir Thomas Hanmer, and later portrayed many leading contemporary actors in Shakespearean roles, including David Garrick as Richard III ( 1760 ).

He also illustrated Pamlela, a novel by Samuel Richardson, Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Smollet's translation of Don Quixote, and other well-known work.

In the 1760s Hayman was commissioned by Jonathan Tyers, proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens, to paint a series of large-scale history paintings depicting British victories in the Seven Years ' War.