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Original works by Thomas Gainsborough available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Thomas Gainsborough at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
12 works by Thomas Gainsborough
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A Woman in Blue
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of a Lady in Blue
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Gainsborough
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Thomas Gainsborough at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Conversation in a Park, 1745
Thomas Gainsborough in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
2 paintings
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City 
4 works online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
2 works
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
Thomas Gainsborough at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
12 works by Thomas Gainsborough
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
3 works
Thomas Gainsborough at the National Gallery, London, UK
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Ralph Bell, ca.1772-74
Thomas Gainsborough at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Landscape, etching, 1780
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee, ca.1770-74
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2 drawings online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide NEW!
Madame Lebrun, 1780
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
3 works online
Boughton House, Northamptonshire, UK
Lady Elizabeth Montagu, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Elmsett Church, Suffolk
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK
William Leyborne Leyborne
Ann Leyborne Leyborne
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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The Cottage Door
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Portrait of Miss Ann Ford, Later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Elizabeth and Thomas Linley, 1768
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
George Pitt, First Lord Rivers
Mrs. Sarah Siddons
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Five horses by a barn, and a man and a dog resting
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
99 works by or related to the artist
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
7 paintings
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
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Frick Collection, New York City
10 works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, England NEW!
Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly of the Lloyd Family
Suffolk Landscape
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
Portrait of Mrs. Collins, ca.1770-75
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Man with Book Seated in a Landscape
Portrait of Mrs. William Provis of Bath
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Portrait of Elizabeth Tyler (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of Mrs. Lowndes-Stone
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Viscount Folkestone
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Isabella
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Anne Duchess of Cumberland
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Norwich Museums, England
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
7 works by Thomas Gainsborough online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
5 works online
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Lieutenant General Philip Honywood, 1765
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online
Southampton City Gallery, England NEW!
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Cattle returning along a Wooded Lane
The Huntington Library, California
The Blue Boy (Jonathan Buttell), ca.1770
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Miss Elizabeth Haverfield, 1780s
Mrs Mary Robinson / 'Perdita', ca.1781
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Tyne & Wear Museums, England NEW!
2 works online
Tyne & Wear Museums Zoomable Database, England NEW!
2 works online
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Portrait of Mrs. Casberd
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
16 works online
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
Captain William Wade
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
2 paintings online
Waddeson Manor: The Rothschild Collection, Aylesbury, England
Master Nichols ("The Pink Boy")
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Portrait of the Artist's Daughters, ca.1763-64
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Commercial Galleries:
Andrew Clayton-Payne Gallery, London, UK -- Notable past sales NEW!
Wooded Landscape
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Gainsborough in the Art Renewal Center
Thomas Gainsborough in the Artchive
CGFA
Insecula
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Olga's Gallery
The Athenaeum
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Madame Bacelli Dancing, stolen in Ireland in 2001
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Portrait of Lady Molyneaux
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
UK Government Art Collection
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Gainsborough
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Spartacus Educational Books
Tate Magazine
Gainsborough's Modernity: By William Vaughan
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Mrs Mary Robinson: Perdita, ca.1781
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
The Byam Family, ca.1762
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, ca.1756
Time Magazine
"Laureate of the Ruling Classes", 1980 article by Robert Hughes
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