Thomas Birch Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Thomas Birch available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Fairmount Water Works
John Neagle's The Studious Artist (Thomas Birch), 1836
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Landlocked Harbor, ca.1830
Thomas Birch in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
New-York Historical Society
7 works online
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Five Landscape Vignettes
Thomas Birch at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
An American Ship in Distress
Virtual Museum of Canada
Southeast View of Sedgeley Park, ca.1819
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
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:
Thomas Birch in the Art Renewal Center
Thomas Birch at CGFA 
Thomas Birch at The Athenaeum 
32 works online by Birch
California State University WorldImages Database
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Tennessee Portrait Project
Miniature Portrait of Andrew Jackson
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.
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