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| Jan de Beer St Jerome in a Landscape ca. 1520-25 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anthonie Blocklandt Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1560-70 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Francesco Bassano the Younger Study of Seated Woman ca. 1580 drawing Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Giovanni Baglione Virgin and Child with Angel ca. 1598 drawing Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Abraham Bosse Engraving Workshop 1642 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Sébastien Bourdon Holy Family with St Elizabeth and young St John the Baptist ca. 1650 oil on canvas Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Salomon de Bray St Helena with the True Cross ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Gerard ter Borch the Younger Woman with Wine Glass ca. 1656-57 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Samuel Bottschild Seated Oriental in Roundel ca. 1675 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| François Boucher Two Studies of a Youth seated on a Bank 1735 etching Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Adam von Bartsch after Palma il Giovane St John the Evangelist on Patmos 1782 etching and aquatint Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Joseph Boze Portrait of Jean-Paul Marat ca. 1793 oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Giuseppe Bernardino Bison Courtiers conversing in a Palace Courtyard ca. 1820 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Mathieu Ignace van Brée Death in 1640 of Peter Paul Rubens 1827 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Cecilia Beaux Henry James 1911 drawing National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Richard Benson Stones of Newport 1977-78 palladium print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Oscar De La Hoya, Phoenix 1993 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
A Farewell
'And if I did, what then?
Are you aggrieved therefore?
The sea hath fish for every man
And what would you have more?'
Thus did my mistress once
Amaze my mind with doubt;
And popped a question for the nonce,
To beat my brains about.
Whereto I thus replied:
'Each fisherman can wish
That all the seas at every tide
Were his alone to fish.
'And so did I, in vain,
But since it may not be,
Let such fish there as find the gain,
And leave the loss for me.
'And with such luck and loss
I will content myself,
Till tides of turning time may toss
Such fishers on the shelf.
'And when they stick on sands,
That every man may see,
Then will I laugh and clap my hands,
As they do now at me.'
– George Gascoigne (1573)