John Flaxman Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Portrait of William Blake, seen full face, drawing
John Flaxman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Drawings collection online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Telemachus in Search of His Father, engraving, 1793
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Hector Chiding Paris, pen and grey ink, 1792-93
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Priam Begging for the Body of Hector
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
80 works by or related to the artist
Glencairn Museum, Pennsylvania
Deliver Us From Evil, ca.1805
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK
Cephalus and Aurora
John Flaxman in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Museum of London, UK
Bust of a man (John Forbes), 1821
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Cephalus and Aurora, 1789-90
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by John Flaxman online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
University College London Art Collections, England
A few small samples from the college's large Flaxman collection
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
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:
John Flaxman in the Art Renewal Center
John Flaxman in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Flaxman 
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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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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