Thomas Gainsborough Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
2 works from the museum's prints and drawings collection
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
3 paintings online
Thomas Gainsborough at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online
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
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Gainsborough
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Landscape in Suffolk
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Thomas Gainsborough at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Conversation in a Park, 1745
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Thomas Gainsborough at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
4 works online
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
National Gallery, London, UK
Thomas Gainsborough at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
12 works by Thomas Gainsborough
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
3 works
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Thomas Gainsborough at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Landscape, etching, 1780
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
"Artist of the Month" profile
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Madame Lebrun, 1780
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bolton Art Gallery, UK
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
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
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
2 works online
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
Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, England
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jersey Heritage Trust, UK
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
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works online
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
4 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
2 paintings by Thomas Gainsborough online
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Viscount Folkestone
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Isabella
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Anne Duchess of Cumberland
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Norwich Museums, England
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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7 works by Thomas Gainsborough online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
5 works online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Lieutenant General Philip Honywood, 1765
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, England
William Jackson, ca.1762-1765
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia
Portrait of Mr. Chubb, ca.1749
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Berlin
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Thomas Gainsborough at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Cattle returning along a Wooded Lane
The Huntington Library, California
Quite a number of works online
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
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Tyne & Wear Museums, England
2 works online
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
2 works online
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Miss Theodosia Magill (1744-1817), afterwards Countess of Clanwilliam, 1765
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
Portrait of Louisa, Lady Clarges
Waddeson Manor: The Rothschild Collection, Aylesbury, England
Master Nichols ("The Pink Boy")
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Search results for "Thomas Gainsborough"
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Portrait of the Artist's Daughters, ca.1763-64
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
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)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Gainsborough 
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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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Spartacus Educational Books
Tate Magazine
Gainsborough's Modernity: By William Vaughan
The Daily Mail Online
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, a portrait located at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Mrs Mary Robinson: Perdita, ca.1781
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Byam Family, ca.1762
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly, ca.1756
Time Magazine
"Laureate of the Ruling Classes", 1980 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A Little Business for the Eye"
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The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough
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