OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Sir William Beechey” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
George IV (1762–1830), When Prince of Wales
Sir William Beechey
Duke of Sussex
Sir William Beechey, English, born Burford, England 1753-died London, England 1839 · n.d.
Portrait of a Woman
Sir William Beechey · ca. 1805
Miss Agnes Murray
Sir William Beechey, English, born Burford, England 1753-died London, England 1839 · n.d.
William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)
Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801
Mrs. Hawkins and Family
Unidentified (British) · ca. 1818-1820
Foot-Combat Helm of Sir Giles Capel (1485–1556)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510
Portrait of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66
Sir William Howe
Robert Pollard, 1755 - 1838 · c. 1782
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Sir William Segar
Francis Delaram, 1589/90 - 1627 · c. 1618-24
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · January 14, 1908
Wine cooler (one of a pair)
William Lukin I · 1716/17
Sir William Boothby
Unidentified (British) · 18th century
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
Polygala aparinoides Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record
Lady Smith (Charlotte Delaval) and Her Children (George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1787
Phania urenifolia Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record
Shield of Sir John Smythe (1534–1607)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–85
Melampodium tenellum Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Puccinellia angustata (R. Br.) Nash
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1927
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 1660 matched · 24 examined · 9 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 264176 matched · 40 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:13 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.