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| Hendrick van der Borcht Portrait of John Evelyn 1641 National Portrait Gallery, London |
The likeness (above) of John Evelyn (1620-1706) at the National Portrait Gallery in London makes a good reminder that badly painted portraits from the European past survive in far greater numbers than well-painted portraits. Useful to remember they exist in their multitudes, though seldom exhibited and seldom reproduced.
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| Carlo Ceresa Portrait of Bernardo Gritti, Proprefect of Bergamo 1646 Rijksmuseum |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Archbishop Fernando de Valdés ca. 1640-45 National Gallery, London |
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| Caesar van Everdingen Young woman wearing a sunhat ca. 1645-50 Rijksmuseum |
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| Bartholomeus van der Helst Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker ca. 1642 Rijksmuseum |
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| Anonymous painter Portrait of a girl with a parrot 1640s National Gallery, London |
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| Michael Janz van Mierevelt Portrait of Henrick Hooft 1640 Rijksmuseum |
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| Caesar van Everdingen Young woman warming her hands ("Allegory of Winter") ca. 1644-48 Rijksmuseum |
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| Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck Girl in blue 1641 Rijksmuseum |
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| attributed to Jacob van Oost the Elder Two boys before an easel ca. 1645 National Gallery, London |
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| Dirck van Santvoort Portrait of Clara Alewijn 1644 Rijksmuseum |
Princess Mary (below) was nine years old when her father Charles I of England arranged her marraige to Prince William of Orange, who was fourteen. Van Dyck painted the wedding portrait. In the succeeding double portrait by Honthorst, the princess is about sixteen and her husband twenty. He died of smallpox in 1650, and Mary became a widow at the age of nineteen.
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| Anthony van Dyck Wedding portrait of William of Orange & Mary Stuart 1641 Rijksmuseum |
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| Gerard van Honthorst Portrait of William of Orange & Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange 1647 Rijksmuseum |
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| Bartholomeus van der Helst Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange, as a widow dressed in white mourning 1652 Rijksmuseum |