Frans van Mieris the Elder Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Dutch courtship, 1675
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
5 works by van Mieris
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Pictura (An Allegory of Painting), 1661
The Doctor's Visit, 1667
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
Frans van Mieris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
National Gallery, London, UK
Frans van Mieris at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
5 works by Frans van Mieris online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
CODART - Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
1 painting by Frans van Mieris I (inventory number 0756/3185)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Dog lying down
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Venus and Cupid, 1665
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Portrait of a Woman with a Lap-Dog, 1672
Virtual Uffizi
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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 316
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 695
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:
Frans van Mieris in the Art Renewal Center
Frans van Mieris at CGFA
Frans van Mieris 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
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The BBC
A Boy Blowing Bubbles
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frans van Mieris 
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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