John Hesselius Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
John Hesselius at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Thomas Chamberlaine, 1772/75
John Hesselius at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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John Hesselius in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maryland State Archives
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Thomas Sprigg, 1764
John Hesselius at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
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 Hesselius in the Art Renewal Center
John Hesselius at The Athenaeum 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The History Project at U.C. Davis
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Maryland ArtSource
Articles and Reference Sites:
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.
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