Richard Bill

1. Commissioned by Richard Bill (1685–1757), Boston, 1733; by descent to his son-in-law, Joshua Henshaw (1703–1777), Boston, 1757; by descent to either his daughter, Sarah Henshaw (1736–1822), or his son Joshua Henshaw (1746–1823), 1777; by descent through the line of either their cousin Elizabeth Bass Henshaw (1737–1787) or cousin David Henshaw (1744–1808) to Andrew Henshaw Ward (1784–1864) and Sarah Henshaw Ward (1787–1863), Newton, MA, 1822 or 1823; by descent to their granddaughter Sarah Henshaw Carruth Washburn (1836–1919), Newton Corner, MA, 1864; by descent to her daughter Gertrude Carruth Washburn Weeks (1861–1928), Boston, 1919; by descent to her husband Warren Bailey Potter Weeks (1858–1943), Boston, 1928; sold to Vose Galleries, Boston, 1943; sold to M. Knoedler & Company, New York, 1943; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, <em>Old and New England</em>, 1945, cat. 47.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

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

Captain John Garish

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Bust of a Youth (Saint John the Baptist)

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Saint John the Evangelist

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Augustus John, Hampshire, England

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Target

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Corpse and Mirror II

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Buildings

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The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy

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