Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals

Officers and Other Guardsmen of the 11th District of Amsterdam under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Blaeuw (The Meagre Company), 1633-7, by Frans Hals and Pieter Codde. Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam on loan from the City of Amsterdam

Double portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, about 1622, by Frans Hals. Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, 1632, by Rembrandt. Photograph: Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis

Double portrait of the Twins Clara and Albert de Bray, about 1646, by Salomon de Bray. Photograph: Private collection (on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland)

Portrait of Willem Coymans, 1645, by Frans Hals (1582/3-1666). Photograph: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Osteology Lesson of Dr Sebastiaen Egbertsz, 1619, by Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy. Photograph: Amsterdams Historisch Museum

Willem van Heythuysen, about 1625, by Frans Hals. Photograph: Alte Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

The Syndics (De Staalmeesters), 1662, by Rembrandt. Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Double portrait of Jan Rijcksen and Griet Jans (The Shipbuilder and his Wife), 1633, by Rembrandt. Photograph: The Royal Collection

Portrait of King Charles I with a Letter in his Hand, 1628, by Gerrit van Honthorst. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery, London

Family Portrait, about 1676, by Nicolaes Maes. Photograph: Konrad O. Bernheimer of P. & D. Colnaghi, London and Richard Green, London

Hugo Grotius, 1599, by Jan van Ravesteyn. Photograph: Collection Frits Lugt, Institut Néerlandais Paris (175)

Banquet of Mark Antony and Cleopatra: Family Portrait with Salomon de Bray and Anna Westerbaen, 1652, by Jan de Bray. Photograph: The Royal Collection

Portrait of Loef Vredericx as a Standard-Bearer, 1626, by Thomas de Keyser. Photograph: Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague