A story in The New York Times ("Notable Show of Pictures," 30 March 1894, p. 2) describes Bills as depicting "two young girls at one end of a table, with an enraged father at the other, examining the accounts sent in by the dressmaker. It is finished in this painter's careful, miniature way, but the figures are natural and graceful."
Mitchell, Mark D. "Blakelock in the Eyes of Artists," catalog for the exhibition and sale Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius Returns, 11 November to 10 December 2016 at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, 903 Park Avenue, Third Floor, New York, NY 10075.