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Richard Cosway
[English Rococo Era Miniaturist, 1742-1821]
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Richard Cosway Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Richard Cosway available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
Several portraits online
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
4 works by or related to the artist
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
2 works online
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
National Library of Australia, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Portrait of Horace Beckford at Age 13, 1790
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Richard Cosway in the Web Gallery of Art 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
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
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