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Allan Ramsay Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Portrait of Mrs Mary Martin
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
King George III in coronation robes, ca.1765
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
John, 10th Earl of Rothes
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
9 works by or related to the artist
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
2 works online
Fleming Collection of Scottish Art, London
Portrait of an Officer
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
3 paintings online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
2 paintings online
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French) 
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Library of Australia, Canberra
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Admiral The Honourable Charles Stewart, 1740
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, England
Portrait of an African (probably Ignatius Sancho), ca.1757
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia
Portrait of Lady Susanna Cambell, ca.1740
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
Portrait of James Adam, 1754
York Art Gallery, UK
Ramsay's work is the 5th painting as you scroll forward
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Allan Ramsay at The Art Renewal Center
Allan Ramsay at The Athenaeum 
2 works online
Allan Ramsay in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Allan Ramsay at CGFA
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
Additional Image Search Tools:
(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:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Allan Ramsay 
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
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
Biographical info
Apollo Magazine
Article about a painting which may be by Allen Ramsay
Spartacus Educational Books
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