In addition to the grandiose historical canvases, a lot of portraits came out from under Mateiko’s brush. There are among them ceremonial portraits of the famous contemporaries of the artist, there are also portraits of friends and relatives. Written in intimate, homely colors, they are not cluttered with details and details.
Such, for example, is the portrait of Anthony Serafinsky. Especially light and gentle artist wrote his children. Despite the fact that the “Portrait of the Three Children of the Artist”, 1870 is designed in the tradition of the “palace portrait”, it breathes home comfort and warmth.
Of the self-portraits of Mateiko, the most famous is the self-portrait written by the artist a year before his death, in which he depicted himself sitting in a deep chair in his workshop.
Reception of Jews in Poland by Jan Aloizy Mateiko 
Portrait of three older children of Charles I by Anthony Van Dyck 
Portrait of the artist Joseph Aved by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
Portrait of Prince Volkonsky’s children with the Arab by Karl Bryullov 
Group Portrait of Children Marchamp by Thomas Gainsborough 
Children of Graham by William Hogarth 
Portrait of his wife and children by Hans Holbein 
Portrait of the artist’s daughters by Thomas Gainsborough