In its heyday, Dutch-Flemish painting produced so many excellent painters that even more of them should be named. Egon von Vietinghoff appreciated them, but also other artists too, such as van Eyck, R. van der Weyden, G. Metsys, H. Bosch, A. Brouwer, Terborch, H. Seghers, and D. Teniers d. J. 

These individuals were not only true masters of their art but painted – although not constantly – in the spirit of "transcendental painting" as Vietinghoff had defined it. Early works of these masters and their large size commissioned paintings are usually much less "transcendental" (inspired) than the smaller and spontaneous ones, and those of their later working periods.

However, the artists indicated in the upper left corner were his favorites. He could spend hours in front of their works in the museums or become absorbed in reproductions of their work as an admiring connoisseur and a critical expert.