John Smibert art links 

Art Institute of Chicago

John Smibert at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
John Nelson, 1732

John Smibert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
4 works by John Smibert online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of James Bowdoin II, 1736

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Reverend James MacSparran, 1735

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
The Continence of Scipio, ca.1719-22

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Edward Nightengale, ca.1722-24
Eleanor Nightengale, 1727

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

John Smibert in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Benjamin

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

The Huntington Library, California

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

John Smibert in the Art Renewal Center

John Smibert at CGFA  

John Smibert at The Athenaeum  
25 works online

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

California State University WorldImages Database  

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Smibert  
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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.

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

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