Art History Research Databases

In addition to our museum collection database, The Frick Collection also hosts a number of unique resources that support advanced research in the History of Art.

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Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America

A database of dealer and collector archives consolidating information about repositories, dealers, collectors, and dealer archives (including dealer photograph archives). This tool provides essential information for scholars working in the fast-growing field of the history of collecting.
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606 - 1669), Nicolaes Ruts, 1631, oil on mahogany panel, Purchased by The Frick Collection, 1943

The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

The Frick Art Reference Library hosts a unique database of inventories of Dutch 16th and 17th century art collections compiled by late Yale University Professor John Michael Montias. Drawn largely from the Gemeentearchief in Amsterdam, these inventories contain a wealth of information that can elucidate patterns of buying, selling, inventorying and collecting art in Holland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541 - 1614), St. Jerome, 1590-1600, oil on canvas, Henry Clay Frick Bequest

Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary

A dictionary providing essential bibliographic information on more than 5,000 Spanish artists, including comprehensive lists of alternate forms of artist surnames. Since its first publication in 1996, it has been widely acclaimed not only as a valuable reference tool but also as a thorough review of scholarly opinion regarding the artistic identities of numerous anonymous masters.