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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]
Adélaïde Victoire Hall (1772–1844), French artist and noblewoman; Patrick Hall (1906–1992), English landscape painter; Thomas Symington Halliday (1902–1998), Scottish painter and sculptor; Hallsteinn Sigurðsson (born 1945), Icelandic sculptor and artist; Dirck Hals (1591–1656), Dutch painter; Frans Hals (1580–1666), Dutch painter
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The paintings are highly unusual in their positive depiction of black sitters at a time when Britain was still heavily engaged in the slave trade. The first painting is a double portrait depicting Dido Belle, a former slave who was brought up as a member of the aristocratic Murray family (Earls of Mansfield), and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray.
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The 53-year-old artist, whose mixed-media pieces celebrate women, is now being featured in an exhibition at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles titled "Mickalene Thomas: All About Love."