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| Charles Martin Portrait of Nicolas de Droullin ca. 1620 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Frans Hals Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1637 oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Palace of the Legion of Honor) |
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| Edmund Ashfield Portrait of Edward Stuart ca. 1680 pastel and gouache on paper- Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, California |
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| Pompeo Batoni Portrait of James Bruce of Kinnaird 1762 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Jean-François Colson Portrait of chemist Balthazar Sage 1777 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
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| Jan Kupecký Portrait of Michael Kreisinger of Eckersfeld 1700 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn Portrait of Reynier Pauw van Nieuwerkerck 1633 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Joshua Reynolds Portrait of art collector John Julius Angerstein in Van Dyck Fancy Dress 1765 oil on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Rembrandt Portrait of Anthonie Coopal 1635 oil on panel Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of Philip William, Prince of Orange ca. 1610 oil on panel Dordrechts Museum |
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| Jacopo Chimenti Portrait of a Man ca. 1610 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Caspar Netscher Portrait of a Man ca. 1680 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck Portrait of a Man 1641 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Tiberio Tinelli Portrait of Lodovico Widmann among Ruins ca. 1637 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Charles-Louis de Simmeren and Prince Rupert of the Rhine ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| Bernardo Strozzi Portrait of Bishop Alvise Grimani ca. 1633 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
"My name," said she, "is Urania, my bringing up hath been under an old Man, and his wife, who, till lately, I tooke for my Father and Mother but they telling me the contrary, and the manner of their finding me, makes mee find I am lost, and so in truth, is much of my content, not being able to know any more of my selfe: I delighted before to tend a little Flocke the old paire put into my handes, now am I troubled how to rule mine owne thoughts."
"This doe I well credit," said Perissus, "for more like a Princesse, then a Shepherdesse doe you appeare, and so much doe I reverence your wisdome, as next unto Limena, I will still most honor you: and therefore, faire Urania, (for so I hope you will give mee leave to call you), I vow before heaven and you, that I will never leave off my Armes, untill I have found Philargus, and on him reveng'd my Ladies death, and then to her love and memory, offer up my afflicted life: but first shall you have notice of the successe, which if good, shall bee attributed to you; if ill, but to the continuance of my ill destinie."
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)