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| William Larkin Portrait of a Young Lady 1617 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Nicholaes Eliasz Pickenoy Portrait of a Lady ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Cornelis de Vos Portrait of a Young Lady ca. 1635-51 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of a Man ca. 1635-45 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Diego Velázquez Lady with a Fan ca. 1640 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
from A Letter to Sir Robert Kerr
Your way into Spain was Eastward, and that is the way to the land of Perfumes and Spices; their way hither is Westward, and that is the way to the land of Gold, and Mynes. The Wise men, who sought Christ, laid down both their Perfumes, and their Gold, at the feet of Christ, the Prince of Peace. If All confer all to his glory, and to the peace of his Church, Amen. But now I consider in Cosmography better; they and we differ not in East and West: we are much alike Easterlie. But yet, Oriens nomen ejus, the East is one of Christ's names, in one Prophet; And, Filius Orientis est Lucifer, the East is one of the Devill's names, in another; and these two differ diametrically. And so in things belonging to the worship of God, I think we shall, Amen. But the difference of our scituation is in North and South; and you know, that though the labour of any ordinary Artificer in that Trade, will bring East and West together, (for if a flat Map be but pasted upon a round Globe, the farthest East, and the farthest West meet, and are all one) yet all this brings not North and South a scruple of a degree the nearer. There are things in which we may meet; and in that wherein we should not, my hope is in God, and in Him, in whom God doth so evidently work, we shall not meet, Amen. They have hotter daies in Spain than we have here, but our daies are longer; and yet we are hotter in our businesse here, and they longer about it there. God is sometimes called a Gyant, running a race; and sometimes is so slow-paced, as that a thousand years make but a day with God; and yet still the same God. He hath his purposes upon our noble and vehement affections, and upon their warie and sober discretions; and will use both to his glory, Amen.
– John Donne (1623)
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| Cornelius Johnson Portrait of a Lady 1633 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Adam Camerarius Young Man in a Fur Cap 1649 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Giovanni Bernardo Carboni Portrait of a Nobleman ca. 1650 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Willem Drost Young Woman in a Brocade Gown ca. 1654 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Willem Drost Portrait of a Young Man 1654 oil on canvas Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona |
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| Jürgen Ovens Portrait of a Girl ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Caspar Netscher Portrait of a Lady by an Orange Tree 1668 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| Gerard Soest Portrait of a Lady as a Sleeping Shepherdess ca. 1670 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| David Teniers the Younger Portrait of a Lady before 1690 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| Adriaen van der Werff Portrait of a Lady by a Fountain ca. 1693-97 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |