Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Portrait of Duchess Sforza Cesarini
Pompeo Batoni at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Studies of a Child
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
The 7th Earl of Northampton
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Mercury Crowning Philosophy, "Mother" of the Arts, 1747
Hercules at the Crossroads, 1765
The Continence of Scipio, ca.1771-72
The Holy Family with SS Elizabeth and John the Baptist, 1777
Thetis Takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron, 1770
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
John Talbot, 1773
Christ in Glory with Four Saints
Kress Foundation Collection NEW!
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
3 paintings online in high resolution
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Hercules at the Crossroads, 1748 (Zoom)
Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan, 1748 (Zoom)
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
3 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
About a dozen paintings online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
The Marchioness of Headfort Holding her Daughter Mary
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Triumph of Venice, 1737
Pompeo Batoni at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Francis Basset, I Baron of Dunstanville, 1778
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Portrait of Pius VI
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Portrait of John Wodehouse
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Boughton House, Northamptonshire, UK
Lord Brudenell in 1758
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Portrait of a Man in a Green Suit
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Pompeo Batoni in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works
Museo del Corso, Rome (in Italian)
Ritratto della Principessa Giacinta Orsini Boncompagni Ludovisi
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese) NEW!
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Allegory
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
2 works by Pompeo Batoni online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Portrait of Cardinal Jean-Francois Joseph de Rochechouart, 1762
San Diego Museum of Art, California - Provenance Research Project
Cardinal Etienne-René Potier de Gesvres, 1758
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003 exhibition
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- 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
Tyne & Wear Museums, England
Henry Swinburne, 1779
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
Henry Swinburne
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City NEW!
Portrait of Philip Livingston
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Edward Howard, 1766
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
Pompeo Batoni in the Art Renewal Center
Pompeo Batoni at CGFA
Pompeo Batoni in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 24
Beloit College Department of Classics
Chiron and Achilles
Thetis Takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron, 1770
Capella Academica, Vienna (in German)
(The thumbnail is missing but the link is still clickable)
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pompeo Batoni 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Art & Antiques Magazine
"Sensuous Surfaces: Batoni portrayed the elite as they wanted to be seen"
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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