Richard Wilson Works Online
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Original works by Richard Wilson available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff 16 works online
Richard Wilson at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan View of Caernavon Castle, 1744/45
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Richard Wilson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 works online
National Gallery, London, UK Holt Bridge on the River Dee The Valley of the Dee
Richard Wilson at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2 works by Richard Wilson
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia St Peters and the Vatican from the Janiculum, Rome
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK River Scene with a Farmhouse
City of Gloucester Collections, England Evening
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 14 works by or related to the artist
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK Tivoli, the Cascatelle and the 'Villa of Maecenas
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales Solitude
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 2 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK Commodore Thomas Smith
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Landscape Capriccio with Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii, 1754
National Museums Liverpool, UK Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, 1765
National Museums Liverpool, UK Landscape with Diana and Callisto, ca.1757
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh An Extensive Landscape with Cottages near a Lake, ca.1744-45
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) Lake Avernus I
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, England Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle, ca.1762-1765
Richard Wilson at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK A View in the Villa Chigi at Ariccia
The Huntington Library, California
Tyne & Wear Museums, England The Alban Hills
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England The Alban Hills
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas An Italianate Landscape, watercolor, ca.1770
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 6 works
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
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:
Richard Wilson in the Art Renewal Center
Richard Wilson at CGFA 
Google Art Project NEW! Distant View of Maecenas' Villa, Tivoli (Tate Britain, London)
Google Art Project NEW! Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris (Tate Britain, London)
Google Art Project NEW! Meleager and Atalanta (Tate Britain, London)
Richard Wilson at The Athenaeum  4 works online
Richard Wilson in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database  River Scene with Bathers and Cattle View over the Thames by Kew Gardens; Syon House
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales The Cascatelli of Tivoli and Villa of Maecenas
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Richard Wilson  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
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