A comprehensive archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period. The archive houses over 6,000 slides of artworks and exhibitions, as well as publications and videos about and by artists. There are over 200 individual artist folders, as well as curators, art historians, cultural critics and arts organization files.

Created by the Library of Congress, American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

AICT is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl. AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The collection focuses on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture.

The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF), a registered charity in the UK, has the objective of opening up that nation’s public art collections for enjoyment, learning, and research. Its flagship project over the last ten years involved making a photographic record of the UK’s entire collection of oil, acrylic, and tempera paintings that are in public ownership. More than 210,000 paintings—the works of 37,000 artists—can be viewed on this website. It should be emphasized that the paintings themselves are by artists of many nationalities; the main criterion for inclusion is that the painting must be in a public collection in the United Kingdom.

Excellent image database containing images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman provides a central source of fine art and historical images for users. Based in London but focus is international in scope.

From the Internet Archive https://archive.org/index.php. Over 14.7 million images extracted from over 600 million pages covering an enormous variety of topics and stretching back to the year 1500.

Over 400,000 works of art, browsable and searchable by artist and collection, all in the public domain.

A well-designed site with focus on fashion, craft, 2D design, and contemporary artists working in the UK and internationally. Repository for many specail collections in the UK.

WGA is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries. Content focuses on the Renaissance period, the Medieval roots of the period and its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism were also included.