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Jacob Adriaensz. Backer
[Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1608-1651]
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Jacob Adriaensz. Backer Works Online
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Original works by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
4 paintings online
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Portrait of a Woman, 1650
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
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, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
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Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Study of an Archer, black and white chalk, 1630-35
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Portrait of a Gentleman
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Portrait de Harman Dircksz. van de Kolck
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
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)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jacob Adriaensz. Backer at The Art Renewal Center
Jacob Adriaensz. Backer in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
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