Sofonisba Anguissola Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Double Portrait of a Boy and Girl of the Attavanti Family, ca.1580-85
Sofonisba Anguissola at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Felipe II, ca.1564
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Double Portrait of a Boy and Girl of the Attavanti Family
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Portrait of the Artist's Sister Minerva
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Poznan National Museum, Poznan, Poland
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Danish Museums Online (in Danish) 
(You can switch to English by going to the very top of the site, but the viewable works are much fewer)
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 14
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:
Sofonisba Anguissola in the Art Renewal Center
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Self-portrait at an Easel
Sofonisba Anguissola in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
MyStudios
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Women Artists from the Medieval Period to the Present
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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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