Sir William Beechey Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Mark Pringle
Sir William Beechey at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Lady Beechey and Her Baby, ca.1800
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hebe feeding Jupiter's eagle
Sir William Beechey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
Sir William Beechey at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, 1815/17
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
"Artist of the Month" profile
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Charlotte Lady Bernard
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Mrs. Fenton
Compton Verney, Warwick, England
Mirza Abu'l Hassan Khan
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
4 works by or related to the artist
Crocker Art Museum, California
Lt. General Bennet Noel
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
2 works online
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
2 paintings by William Beechey, mixed in with several by followers and copiers
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Portrait of a lady
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
12 paintings online
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Oddie Children, 1789
Norwich Museums, England
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Portrait of Kitty Packe (née Hart), ca.1818-21
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Portrait of an Unidentified Lady
Sir William Beechey at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Margaret Bewicke, 1821
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
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:
Sir William Beechey in the Art Renewal Center
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
PBase Photo Sharing
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Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
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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