Open Fine Art

Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash

You can find free-to-use images of paintings and other artworks from several reputable sources online. Here are some platforms that provide free and often public domain or open-license images:

1. Wikipedia Commons: This is a media file repository for public domain and freely-licensed educational media content. It includes many images of paintings, especially older ones that are no longer under copyright.
2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Program: Through this program, the Met provides free access to images of artworks in its collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain.
3. The National Gallery of Art: The NGA Images program offers open access to a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. They have many free-to-use paintings, particularly classical ones.
4. The Rijksmuseum: Their Rijksstudio collection allows users to access and download high-resolution images of artworks from their collection.
5. Unsplash: Although primarily a source for modern photographs, Unsplash also hosts a selection of images of paintings and other artworks that are free to use.
6. Pixabay: This platform offers free stock photos, but you can also find images of paintings or artwork-related themes.
7. The British Library’s Flickr: The British…