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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.
By 1816, his wife was expecting a fifth child. After a relative of Hicks, at the urging of Hicks' close friend John Comly, talked to him about painting again, Hicks resumed decorative painting. This friendly suggestion saved Hicks from financial disaster, and preserved his livelihood not as a Quaker Minister but as a Quaker artist. [6]
The Cornell Farm (1848) is an oil on canvas landscape by Edward Hicks.It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1964. The picture depicts the farmland and cattle of Pennsylvanian James Cornell.
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 ...
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 ...
Washington Allston (1779–1843), painter; Edward Hicks ... landscape and portrait painter; Thomas Cromwell Corner ... German-born American painter; Art Young (1866 ...
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 ...
The Falls of Niagara is a c.1825 painting by Edward Hicks. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] Although Hicks had personally visited Niagara Falls in 1819 this picture was based on a previous depiction of the Falls by Henry Schenck Tanner on an 1822 map of North America. The view is from the Canadian side and ...