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| Otto van Veen Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma ca. 1585 oil on copper Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Otto van Veen Archduke Albrecht VII 1596-97 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Otto van Veen Nicolaas Rockox 1600 oil on panel Rubenshuis, Antwerp |
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| Otto van Veen Alonso de Idiaquez, 1st Duke of Ciudad Real before 1629 oil on panel (fragment of triptych) Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Otto van Veen Mystic Marriage of St Catherine before 1629 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Otto van Veen Mystic Marriage of St Catherine 1589 oil on panel Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Otto van Veen Brinno standing on the Shield (from series, The Revolt of the Batavians against the Romans) before 1613 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Otto van Veen St Michael Archangel weighing Souls ca. 1575-1600 oil on paper, mounted on canvas (grisaille) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Otto van Veen Exodus of the Hebrews before 1629 oil on panel (grisaille) Musée Ingres, Montauban |
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| Otto van Veen The Lamentation ca. 1590-1600 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Otto van Veen Suffer the Little Children to come unto Me before 1629 oil on canvas National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana |
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| Otto van Veen Allegory of the Temptations of Youth before 1629 oil on panel Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Otto van Veen The Persian Women ca. 1597-99 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Plutarch tells the story of Persian women on the battlefield observing the defeat of their country's soldiers. "Whither are you rushing so fast, you biggest cowards in the whole world? Surely you cannot, in your flight, slink in here whence you came forth?" Thus shamed, the men turned back and were victorious.
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| Otto van Veen Family Portrait ca. 1625 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Otto van Veen The Artist, surrounded by his Family 1584 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
Otto van Veen (1556-1629) – Painter, draughtsman and author of several emblem books. Pupil of Isaac Swanenburgh in Leiden, of Domenicus Lampsonius and Jean Ramey in Liège (c. 1572). Between 1575-1580 in Italy. In 1585 he was in Brussels as court-painter of Alexander Farnese. In 1593 in Antwerp, where Peter Paul Rubens was his pupil.
– from the biography at the British Museum