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1780 Langhorne, Pennsylvania - 1849 Newtown, Pennsylvania. Known for: Peaceful animals, history and mythology painting.
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting trade. By 1803 he had married Sarah Worstall of Newtown, Pennsylvania, and was received as a member of the Middletown Monthly Meeting. He became increasingly involved in his meeting's affairs during... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting trade. By 1803 he had married Sarah Worstall of Newtown, Pennsylvania, and was received as a member of the Middletown Monthly Meeting. He became increasingly involved in his meeting's affairs during these and the years immediately following, and by 1811 was recorded as a Quaker minister at Middletown because of his religious work and popularity as a gifted preacher. It was also during this year that he set up his shop in Newtown and commenced the... Read full biography
The 19th-century Quaker artist Edwards Hicks is arguably the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphan Hicks was apprenticed to local coach makers William and Henry Tomlinson from 1793 to 1800, to learn the ornamental painting trade. By 1803 he had married Sarah Worstall of Newtown, Pennsylvania, and was received as a member of the Middletown Monthly Meeting. He became increasingly involved in his meeting's affairs during these and the years immediately following, and by 1811 was recorded as a Quaker minister at Middletown because of his religious work and popularity as a gifted preacher. It was also during this year that he set up his shop in Newtown and commenced the ornamental painting business he would pursue for the remainder of his life. Hicks was not trained as an eas... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Colored Pencil
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Heraldic Art
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Colonial America
- •Niagara Falls
- •Virginia Before 1900
Art Association
- •Artists Fund Society
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
- •Warner Collection
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art