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Original works by John Singleton Copley available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
4 works by John Singleton Copley online
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Mrs. Daniel Rea and Child, 1757
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
Sarah Sherburne Langdon, 1767
Woodbury Langdon, 1767
John Singleton Copley at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 portraits online
John Singleton Copley at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
38 works by John Singleton Copley online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Mrs. Nathaniel Allen, ca.1763
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
John Singleton Copley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
19 works by John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Excellent exhibit built around Watson and the Shark
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Mrs. James Russell (Katherine Graves), ca.1770
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Sir William Pepperrell and His Family, 1778
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Isaac Smith
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Mrs. Isaac Smith (Elizabeth Storer)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Nathaniel Hurd
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) NEW!
Portrait of Thomas Flucker, ca.1770-71
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Thomas Greene
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Mrs. John Greene
Nathaniel Hurd
A Hussar Officer on Horseback
Mrs. Anna Dummer Powell
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Thomas Amory II
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
9 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Portrait of Captain John Small
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Portrait of Mrs. Jabez Bowen (Sara Brown)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Portrait of Elizabeth Deering Wentworth Gould Rogers, ca.1765
John Singleton Copley in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Elizabeth Allen Stevens, ca.1757
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Portrait of Theodore Atkinson, Jr. (image 16)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
John Singleton Copley at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Portrait of John Winthrop
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Lydia Lynde, ca.1762-64
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
Portrait of Sarah Erving Waldo, ca.1765
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Portrait of John Scollay
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Robert 'King' Hooper
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin
Royal Academy of Arts Online Catalogue
The Tribute Money, 1782
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
John Singleton Copley at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago
Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens, 1770-72
Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress, 1763
The Huntington Library, California
Sarah Jackson, ca.1765
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Mrs. Thomas Gage
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Young Lady with a Bird and Dog
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. Seymour Fort)
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Mrs. Daniel Rogers
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2 works online
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
John Bours
Lucretia Chandler Murray (Mrs. John Murray)
Sarah Tyler Savage (Mrs. Samuel Phillips Savage)
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
John Bours, ca.1765-70
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Professional Tools:
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Pictures from Image Archives:
John Singleton Copley in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive
CGFA
The Athenaeum 
113 works online by Copley
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
PBase Photo Sharing
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Other Web Sites:
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Singleton Copley
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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
Biographical info
Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Biography of the artist
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