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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.
The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($154 million in 2023 dollars). All-time This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale. Adjusted price (in millions of USD) Original price (in ...
Salvator Mundi by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1500) This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The record is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500). The painting was sold in November 2017, [1] [2] through the auction house Christie's in New ...
On Tuesday, Vincent Van Gogh's painting, L'Allée des Alyscamps sold at a Sotheby's auction for $66.3 million to a private collector from Asia. Van Gogh's painting sells for $66M, nearly six times ...
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 ]
William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888–1965), painter and commercial artist Arnold Franz Brasz (1888–1966), painter, sculptor, and printmaker Mountfort Coolidge (1888–1954), painter and antiquarian
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