Willem van Aelst Works Online
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Original works by Willem van Aelst available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 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
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Willem van Aelst at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Still Life with Dead Game, 1661
Willem van Aelst at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
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
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Vanitas Flower Still Life, ca.1656-57
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
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 5
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Willem van Aelst in the Art Renewal Center
Willem van Aelst at CGFA 
Google Art Project NEW!
Still Life with Poultry (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
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)
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