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| Pieter Isaacsz A Feast 1622 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Gerrit van Honthorst Solon before Croesus (scene from Herodotus) 1624 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert Ruth and Boaz ca. 1625-30 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jan Boeckhorst Apollo and Diana slaying the Children of Niobe ca. 1630 oil on canvas Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Simon de Vos The Chastisement of Cupid ca. 1630 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| workshop of Anthony van Dyck Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes ca. 1630-31 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie Flämische Barockmalerei im Schloss Neuburg |
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| Gaspar de Crayer The Miraculous Draught of Fishes ca. 1630-35 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Jan Miense Molenaer The Denial of Peter 1633 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Theodoor Rombouts Card Players ca. 1635 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Aubin Vouet Death of Saphira and Ananias ca. 1635 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Jan van Bijlert Banquet of the Gods ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Camma giving the poisoned wedding cup to Synorix ca. 1645 oil on canvas Musée de la Cour d'Or de Metz |
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| Erasmus Quellinus the Younger and Adriaen van Utrecht Christ in the House of Mary and Martha ca. 1645 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Sébastien Bourdon Sacrifice of the Daughter of Jephthah ca. 1645-47 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Bernardino Curti after Luca Ferrari Tomyris receiving the Head of Cyrus 1649 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Bernardo Cavallino Abigail before David ca. 1650-55 oil on canvas Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
But now came they to the place, where the spring of all mischiefe sate, the Mistrisse of wickednesse, and that Castle, in such distresse, because they were not distressed; as malice and all vices mixt together, could hardly bee the figure of this woman: but what could shee doe? All cunning now faild her, though she began with humilitie, fawning and flattringly begging life, succeeding with cursings, revilings and threatnings: but all prospered alike; for they taking her, commaunded her to bring them where the Prisoners were. When shee saw no craft would prevaile, shee cast her hatefull looks upon them, and by an unlucky chance espying a Dagger at Ollorandus back, stept to him hastily, drawing it out, and as suddenly being unmarkt, strake Amphilanthus (who was then looking from herward, carelesse of her) under his Armour, giving him such a wound, as the bloud fell in great abundance from him: but soone was that well revenged, if her life were answerable for such a mischance; yet did they keepe her alive, till the Castle was setled, one drop of his bloud being more worth, then millions of lives of better people. Then she was terribly tortured, and yet kept long in paine for her more lasting punishment, and lastly burn'd.
– 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)