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John Smibert
[Scottish-born American Colonial Era Painter, 1688-1751]
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John Smibert Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
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)
John Smibert at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Mrs. John Pitts, 1735
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Portrait of Mary Pemberton, 1734
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Portrait of Samuel Pemberton, 1734
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
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
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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!
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Benjamin
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Slovenská Národná Galéria (Slovak National Gallery), Bratislava, Slovakia
The Huntington Library, California
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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
(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:
John Smibert at The Art Renewal Center
John Smibert at The Athenaeum 
25 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
John Smibert at CGFA
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Smibert 
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
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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter
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