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Sir Joshua Reynolds Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan NEW!
2 works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Continence of Scipio, 1789
The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents, 1786
Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus, 1788
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Master Hare, 1788
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Sir Joshua Reynolds 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
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
National Gallery, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
9 works by Sir Joshua Reynolds
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Colonel Charles Churchill
Sir Jeffrey Amherst, K.B.
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)
Ritratto di Rebecca Watson
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Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Portrait of a Lady
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, England
Augustus John, 3rd Earl of Bristol, 1762
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
Juno Receiving the Cestus from Venus
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Portrait of Richard Peers Symons, M.P.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio NEW!
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer as Bacchante
Compton Verney, Warwick, England
A Portrait of Mrs Baldwin, 1782
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Henry, Eighth Lord Arundell Of Wardour
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Henry, Eighth Lord Arundell of Wardour, ca.1764-67
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
2 works online
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
6 paintings by Joshua Reynolds, mixed in with several by followers and copiers
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
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Falmouth Art Gallery, England
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Frick Collection, New York City
4 works online
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Scyacust Ukah
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska NEW!
Portrait of Miss Franks, 1766
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Elizabeth Warren
Miss Anna Ward with Her Dog
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK
Mrs. Peter Beckford, 1782
Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of Miss Hoare
Portrait of the Artist
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
2 works online
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Prince William Frederick (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museum of London, UK
Portrait of the Artist, 1780
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia NEW!
2 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK NEW!
Many works online
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Overview page with 4 works online
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Lieutenant Haswell R.N. Son of John Haswell of Tiverton, Devon
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NEW!
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Jane, Duchess of Gordon, 1775/78
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian)
Mini-site for a 2005 exhibition. Click "La Mostra" to see 3 pages of artworks.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Sir Joshua Reynolds online
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Aneas Mackay of Ravenhead House
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
John Manners, Marquis of Granby, 1766
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, England NEW!
Captain Charles Proby of Elton Hall, ca.1756
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia
Self-Portrait as a Young Artist, 1740s
Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen NEW!
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Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2005 exhibition
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
3 works online
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
12 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland NEW!
Miss Theodosia Magill (1744-1817), afterwards Countess of Clanwilliam, 1765
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Sir Patrick Blacke, ca.1765-66
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Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Virtual Museum of Canada
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
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 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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sir Joshua Reynolds 
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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)
Project Gutenberg
Full text of Reynolds' treatise, Seven Discourses on Art
Spartacus Educational Books
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen, 1773
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Nelly O'Brien, ca.1763
Time Magazine
"Mixing Grandeur and Tattiness", 1986 article by Robert Hughes
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
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The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
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