Portrait of Luca Giordano, wearing round spectacles and looking to the left

Plate 1: Pensive man resting his head on his hand; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Giovanni Cattini, After Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Joost van den Vondel

Jan Lievens, Portrait of Joost van den Vondel

A Dutch Burgomaster, after Bartholomeus van der Helst, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart, After Bartholomeus van der Helst, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

Self-Portrait

Jean Etienne Liotard, Jean Etienne Liotard

Portrait of William Dobson

Josias English, After William Dobson, William Dobson

An apostle seen from behind and turning to the right, holding an open book, in an oval frame, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

Anonymous, 17th century, After Guido Reni

Henri de Mesmes

Claude Mellan, Portrait of Henri de Mesmes

Zuren, Jan van (1517-1591) publisher, burgomaster of Haarlem

Hendrick Goltzius

An apostle seen from behind and turning to the right, holding an open book, in an oval frame, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

Anonymous, 17th century, After Guido Reni

Bardolph, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

John Hamilton Mortimer, William Shakespeare

Philippe Le Roy

Anthony van Dyck

Shylock, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

John Hamilton Mortimer, William Shakespeare