Sir Walter Gilbey, Animal Painters of England From the Year 1650: A brief history of their lives and works, vol. 2, London: Vintox & Co., 1900, pp. 207–11. At Archive.org Accessed 13 February 2009
Noakes, Aubrey, Sportsmen in a Landscape (Ayer Publishing, 1971, ISBN0-8369-2005-8), pp. 47–56: Peter Tillemans and Early Newmarket at books.google.com, accessed 7 February 2009. ONDB writes: "In 1733 Tillemans retired to Richmond, Surrey, and died on 5 December 1734 while staying at Little Haugh Hall. Tillemans was buried on 7 December at Stowlangtoft church, Suffolk." Tate.org gives Tillemans date of death as 19 November 1734.
Christopher Wright, with Catherine May Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith, British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006, at British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections books.google.com, accessed 14 February 2009
Robert Raines, "Peter Tillemans, Life and Work, with a List of Representative Paintings", Journal of the Walpole Society, vol. XLVII, 1980, pp. 21–59, quoted at Peter Tillemans biography at Tate.org Accessed 7 February 2009
