Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, with Adriaen van der Spelt
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 NEW! Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW! 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) NEW! 
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia A cavalier (self-portrait), 1657-59
CODART - Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu Scroll down for one painting by Frans van Mieris I
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)
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW! 
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Wallace Collection, London, UK Venus and Cupid, 1665
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! - 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 - you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around Portrait of a Woman with a Lap-Dog, 1672
Virtual Uffizi
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures Scroll down to signature 316
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms Scroll down to monogram 695
Pictures from Image Archives:
Frans van Mieris the Elder in the Art Renewal Center
Frans van Mieris the Elder at CGFA 
Frans van Mieris the Elder 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) 
Other Web Sites:
The BBC A Boy Blowing Bubbles
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frans van Mieris the Elder 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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
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