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| Steven van der Meulen Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde ca. 1560 oil on panel National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
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| Steven van der Meulen Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester before 1564 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| attributed to Steven van der Meulen Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ca. 1560 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Steven van der Meulen Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys (putative likeness) 1562 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| Steven van der Meulen Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys (detail) 1562 oil on panel Yale Center for British Art |
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| attributed to Steven van der Meulen John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley ca. 1560 oil on panel private collection |
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| attributed to Steven van der Meulen William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke ca. 1560 oil on panel National Museum of Wales, Cardiff |
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| Steven van der Meulen Lady Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex before 1564 oil on panel Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
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| Steven van der Meulen Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel ca. 1564 oil on panel National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Steven van der Meulen Gentleman of the Tichborne Family before 1564 oil on panel Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire |
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| Steven van der Meulen Eleanor Benlowes 1564 oil on panel St John's College, Cambridge |
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| attributed to Steven van der Meulen Sir John Gresham the Elder (putative likeness) ca. 1550 oil on panel National Trust, Dunham Massey, Manchester |
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| Steven van der Meulen Erik XIV, King of Sweden 1561 oil on panel Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
"Early in 1561 an English merchant, John Dymoch, brought with him to Sweden a "holändsk Konterfegare," Master Staffan. Dymoch's visit was in connexion with negotiations for the marriage of Erik XIV and [Queen] Elizabeth; and in March 1561 an audience was given for the painter to proceed with a portrait of the King. The King was much pleased with the result, and rewarded the painter with the gift of 100 daler. The portrait was taken to England by Nils Sture (as envoy extraordinary to the English Court) and Dymoch, and was presented to Queen Elizabeth at an audience in June 1561. The Queen is said to have been much impressed, and to have remarked that if the King was as handsome as the portrait, nobody could resist him."
– W.G. Constable, from a short article on The Famous Paynter Steven published in the Burlington Magazine (September, 1935)
(More recent scholarship has called into some doubt Steven van der Meulen's authorship of the group of portraits, mainly English, traditionally assigned to him, and has attempted to propose alternative painters as the actual "Master Staffan")
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| Steven van der Meulen Queen Elizabeth I ca. 1563 oil on panel Tate Britain |
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| Steven van der Meulen Queen Elizabeth I (detail) ca. 1563 oil on panel Tate Britain |