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| Sir Joshua Reynolds art links |
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 NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
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
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  Portrait of Mrs. Jelf Powis and Her Daughter, 1777
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  Colonel Charles Churchill Sir Jeffrey Amherst, K.B.
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)  Ritratto di Rebecca Watson N.B. The zoom-in feature ("Esplora il dipinto") only works with Internet Explorer
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
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 NEW! 3 paintings online
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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 NEW!
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand Select the artist from the drop-down list
Falmouth Art Gallery, England 2 works online
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma Scyacust Ukah
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Portrait of Miss Franks, 1766
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK Mrs. Peter Beckford, 1782
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 2 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK 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
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
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 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
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2005 exhibition
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK 3 works online
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland Miss Theodosia Magill (1744-1817), afterwards Countess of Clanwilliam, 1765
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles Sir Patrick Blacke, ca.1765-66 (Don't miss the "fullscreen" icon when viewing images)
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 Quite a few works online
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) 
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 (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)
"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. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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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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