Bartholomeus van der Helst Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Bartholomeus van der Helst at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan A Young Man, 1654
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Family Portrait, 1652 The Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam, 1666 Portrait of a Woman, 1649 Family Portrait, 1647
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Portrait of a Young Man in Military Costume, 1650
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Bartholomeus van der Helst at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
National Gallery, London, UK
Bartholomeus van der Helst at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Princess Henrietta Mary Stuart, 1652 The Celebration of the Peace of Münster, ca.1649
Bartholomeus van der Helst at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  12 works by Bartholomeus van der Helst online
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina Annetge Backer
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  Portrait of a Burgomaster, Jacobus Trip, 1665-70
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German) 
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK Lieutenant-Admiral Egbert Meussen Cortenaer, ca.1660
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  3 portraits online
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"
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian) 
The Wallace Collection, London, UK Jochem van Aras with his Wife and Daughter, 1654
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
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)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures Scroll down to signature 154
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:
Bartholomeus van der Helst in the Art Renewal Center
Bartholomeus van der Helst at CGFA 
Bartholomeus van der Helst in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Bartholomeus van der Helst  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
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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