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| Michiel Sweerts art links |
Michiel Sweerts Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 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)
Michiel Sweerts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
In the Studio, 1652
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
An old woman spinning, 1650
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of a Young Man (Self-Portrait), 1656
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Head of a Woman, 1654
Double Portrait, 1660
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Self-Portrait
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
The Academy, ca.1655/60
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Head of a Young Man
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Boy Drawing before the Bust of a Roman Emperor, ca.1661
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Boy with a Hat
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
A Young Couple and a Boy in a Garden, ca.1650
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Michiel Sweerts at The Art Renewal Center
Michiel Sweerts at The Artchive
Michiel Sweerts in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Michiel Sweerts at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
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.
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