Richard Bill

Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Old and New England, 1945, cat. 47. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

Ledyard Bill, ed., History of the Bill Family (New York, 1867). Frank W. Bayley, Five Colonial Artists of New England: Joseph Badger, Joseph Blackburn, John Singleton Copley, Robert Feke, John Smibert (Boston, 1929), 5 (ill.). Art Digest, Aug. 1, 1948, 9. David L. Evans, John F. Kerslake, and Andrew Oliver, The Notebook of John Smibert (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1969). Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America’s First Portrait Painter (Yale University Press, 1995), 179, cat. 83 (ill, pl. 22). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 58–60, no. 9. Margaretta M. Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 116 (ill.). John C. Eastberg et al., Layton's Legacy: A Historic American Art Collection, 1888–2013, exh. cat. (Layton Art Collection, Inc./Milwaukee Art Museum/The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013).