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John Flaxman Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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
Portrait of William Blake, seen full face, drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
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
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK
Cephalus and Aurora
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Huntington Library, California
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
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
6 works online when last checked
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
(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:
John Flaxman at The Art Renewal Center
John Flaxman in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
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:
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Flaxman 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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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