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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:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
11 paintings online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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 NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, Russia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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 NEW!
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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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Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
The Dutch Fleet in the Goeree Roads, 1664
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works online when last checked
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
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
The Cannon Shot (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Willem van de Velde at The Art Renewal Center
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)
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
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Miscellaneous Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
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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