John Singleton Copley Works Online
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Original works by John Singleton Copley available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Mrs. Daniel Rea and Child, 1757
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
John Singleton Copley at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
10 works online
John Singleton Copley at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
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
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
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
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Thomas Flucker, ca.1770-71
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American 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
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Mrs. Metcalf Bowler, 1758
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
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Portrait of Mrs. Jabez Bowen (Sara Brown)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
John Singleton Copley in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Nathaniel Hurd
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Mrs. Nathaniel Allen, ca.1763
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
3 paintings online
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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
1 work online: Portrait of Sarah Erving Waldo (row 6/image 6). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
John Spooner, 1763
Seattle Art Museum
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 American Art, Chicago
Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens, 1770-72
Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress, 1763
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Scott, ca.1765
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Mrs. Thomas Gage
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Mrs. Isaac Royall, ca.1767-78
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. Seymour Fort)
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Mrs. Daniel Rogers, 1862
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Mr. James Otis, ca.1760
Mrs. James Otis (Mary Allyne Otis), ca.1760
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
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:
John Singleton Copley in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive
CGFA
The Athenaeum 
117 works online by Copley
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
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The History Project at U.C. Davis
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Singleton Copley 
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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
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Self-Portrait, ca.1770
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"Moses in Miniature: A Recently Discovered Portrait by John Singleton Copley"
Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Biography of the artist
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Time Magazine
"How John Singleton Copley Became Colonial America's Best Portraitist", 1995 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Making it Straight", 1997 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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America's Old Masters: West, Copley, Peale and Stuart
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John Singleton Copley
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