Philip Mercier Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Philip Mercier at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Playing Soldier, ca.1743
National Gallery, London, UK
Philip Mercier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Singing Party
Philip Mercier at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
2 paintings online
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Fête Galante
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
The Hon Robert Dalzell
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Philip Mercier at CGFA 
Philip Mercier in the Web Gallery of Art 
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
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.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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