Willem van de Velde the Younger Works Online
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Original works by Willem van de Velde available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
The English Ship Hampton Court in a Gale, 1679-81
Willem van de Velde at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Calm Sea, ca.1660
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Ships in a Calm Sea, 1653
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Calm Sea, 1665
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Ships off the Coast, 1672 (Zoom)
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter (with Ferdinand Bol)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Ships in the Roads
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Willem van de Velde at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
National Gallery, London, UK
Willem van de Velde at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A Ship in High Seas Caught by a Squall (The Gust), ca.1680
Willem van de Velde at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
15 works by Willem van de Velde online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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11 paintings online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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The burning of Dutch merchant ships between Terschelling and Vlieland, 19 August 1666
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
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Boughton House, Northamptonshire, UK
A Dutch Flagship at Anchor and a States Yacht under Sail
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
13 works by or related to the artist
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
A Brisk Breeze, ca.1665
A Calm, 1663
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, Russia
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Many works online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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An English Ship in Action with Barbary Pirates, ca.1680
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Un bateau du type "kaag" appareille
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
8 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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The Dutch Fleet in the Goeree Roads, 1664
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
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)
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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Willem van de Velde in the Art Renewal Center
Google Art Project NEW!
The Cannon Shot (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Willem van de Velde in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
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.
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