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In the 1650s Quellinus's classicism developed into a rigid system. In compositions of this period he incorporated a limited number of academic figure types, always characterised by idealized classical, but stereotyped outlines. Quellinus's late work has much in common with the style of Poussin's later work.
Quellinus's later work was also marked by a grander decorum. In his Artemisia this is discernable in a theatrical background of parkland.
Artemisia was the queen of Halicarnassus, a Greco-Carian city in the ancient district of Caria (in southwestern Anatolia), and of the nearby islands of Cos, Calymnos, and Nisyrus about 480 BCE. She ruled during the overlordship of the Persian king Xerxes (reigned 486–465) and participated in Xerxes's invasion of Greece (480–479).
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