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| Anonymous painter Portrait of a man reading ca. 1660 Rijksmuseum |
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| John Michael Wright Portrait of John Dryden 1668 National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Samuel Cooper Miniature portrait of Frances Talbot ca. 1665 National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Peter Lely Double portrait of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York & James, Duke of York 1660s National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Herman Verelst Portrait of a woman 1667 Rijksmuseum |
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| Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo Portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa 1665-66 Prado |
The Infanta Margarita (above) had posed at age five as the central figure in what would eventually become one of Europe's most famous works of art, Las Meninas by the favorite painter at her father's court, Diego Velázquez. Both artist and king were recently dead when Margarita posed at fifteen, shortly before embarking for Austria to marry her uncle, the Holy Roman Emperor. The tiny figure in the deep background with escorts is possibly her three-year-old brother, the new King of Spain.
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| Charles & Henri Beaubrun Portrait of Queen Maria Teresa of France with the Dauphin ca. 1664 Prado |
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| Jan de Bray Portrait of the printer Abraham Casteleyn and his wife Margarieta van Bancken 1663 Rijksmuseum |
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| Jan Mytens Portrait of a woman 1660s Getty |
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| Gerard and Gesina ter Borch Memorial portrait of Moses ter Borch 1667-69 Rijksmuseum |
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| Ferdinand Bol Self-portrait 1669 Rijskmuseum |
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| Karel Dujardin Self-portrait 1662 Rijksmuseum |
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| Gerard ter Borch Portrait of Margaretha van Haexbergen ca. 1666-67 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Peter Lely Portrait of Barbara Villiers as the Madonna with her son, Charles Fitzroy ca. 1665 National Portrait Gallery, London |
Sir Peter Lely caused a predictable scandal in non-courtly circles when he painted Barbara Villiers as the Madonna embracing her illegitimate son, fathered by Charles II. This painting was inevitably interpreted as a gesture of libertine defiance emanating from the king himself.