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Hicks was born in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and became a portrait painter, but is also known for genre works. [1] He is known for his portrait of Abraham Lincoln that was engraved by Leopold Grozelier. Charles Henry Yewell studied with him for a time. [2] He died on October 8, 1890.
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Thomas Holliday Hicks (1798–1865), U.S. senator and governor of Maryland; Tom Hicks (born 1946), American businessman from Texas; Thomas O. Hicks Jr., American businessman from Texas; Tommy Steele (Thomas Willam Hicks, born 1936), British entertainer; Thomas Hicks (painter) (1823–1890), American painter; Thomas W. Hicks, Under Secretary of ...
Hicks' easel paintings were often made for family and friends, not for sale, and decorative painting remained his main source of income. [ 7 ] In 1827, a schism formed within the Religious Society of Friends, between Hicksites (named after Edward Hicks' cousin Elias Hicks ) and Orthodox Friends. [ 8 ]
The high-end art market seems to be a great option for investment these days. On Tuesday, Vincent Van Gogh's painting, L'Allée des Alyscamps sold at a Sotheby's auction for $66.3 million to a ...
According to the AP, a painting that "sat unsold for years" in the gallery where Kinkade's "career first took off" -- with a $110,000 price tag -- was bought for $150,000 after the artist died ...
Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), painter; Thomas Hovenden (1840–1895), painter; Thomas Nast (1840–1902), caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator; 1841 John Joseph Enneking (1841–1916), painter; Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919), painter; Theodore Otto Langerfeldt (1841–1906), painter; John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), painter, sculptor ...
His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, are regarded by art historians as a significant departure from those of his peers. [1] Heade was born in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, the son of a storekeeper. He studied with Edward Hicks, and possibly with Thomas Hicks. His earliest works were produced during ...