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| Abraham van den Tempel Minerva crowns the Maid of Leiden 1648-51 oil on canvas (commissioned by the Leiden Drapers' Guild) Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Abraham van den Tempel The Maid of Leiden welcomes the Nering (the 'Nering' personifies the textile industry) 1648-51 oil on canvas (commissioned by the Leiden Drapers' Guild) Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Mars banishes the Nering from Leiden 1648-51 oil on canvas (commissioned by the Leiden Drapers' Guild) Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Granida and Daifilo (scene from the pastoral play Granida by Pieter Hooft) before 1672 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Abraham van den Tempel The Finding of Moses before 1672 oil on panel private collection |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of a Family (in the guise of Volumnia before Coriolanus) ca. 1648-50 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of Albertine Agnes, Princess of Orange with her Children 1668 oil on canvas Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of David Leeuw, Cornelia Hooft and their Children 1671 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of Jan van Amstel and his daughter Anna Boxhoorn 1671 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of Sir William Davidson of Curriehill with his son Charles ca. 1664 oil on canvas (child added later by another hand) Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of Pieter de la Court 1667 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of a Lady 1670 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of a Gentleman 1670 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of Jacquemijna Le Pla ca. 1666 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Abraham van den Tempel Portrait of Johannes Antonides van der Linden 1660 oil on canvas Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
Abraham van den Tempel (1622/23-1672) – is best known for his restrained and elegant portraits of prominent Dutch citizens from the third quarter of the seventeenth century. . . . The son of the Leeuwarden painter, art dealer and Mennonite preacher Lambert Jacobsz (ca. 1598-1636), Abraham van den Tempel lost his father at an early age, and proceeded with his artistic training under Jacob Backer (a fellow Mennonite who had in turn been his father's pupil). The practice of Backer also embraced portraiture and genre themes, but focused on history painting. . . . Tempel initially aspired to history painting, as seen in one of his earliest independent efforts, the well-known series on the cloth trade for the Drapers' Guild in Leiden, painted in the years 1648-51, which remains one of his best known works. [These three large mytho-allegorical paintings (seen at the top of this post) remain today on display in the same building in Leiden where they were initially installed.]
– David de Witt, excerpted from an article on Tempel's draughtsmanship published in the journal Oud Holland (2006)