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Original works by Willem van Aelst available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Flowers in a Silver Vase, 1663
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Group of flowers, 1675
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Snack
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Still Life with Dead Birds and Game Bag, 1674
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Willem van Aelst at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Still Life with Dead Game, 1661
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Vanitas Flower Still Life, ca.1656
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, England
Still Life with Carnations, 1682
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Vase de Fleurs, 1651
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Vase de Fleurs, 1645-56
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Tableau de Fruits, 1645-56
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
Bouquet of Flowers
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
2 paintings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
- you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
Glass Vase with Branches bearing Fruit, 1664
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
Willem van Aelst in the Art Renewal Center
Willem van Aelst at CGFA 
Willem van Aelst in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artpx
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Delft Artists and Patrons
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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