Thomas Hicks (painter)
Thomas Hicks (born October 18, 1823 in Newtown (Bucks County) , Pennsylvania , † October 8, 1890 in Trenton Falls , New York ) was an American painter .
Life
Hicks was a nephew of the American folk painter Edward Hicks . He attended Newtown Academy and tried his hand at portrait painting at the age of 15 . He then began studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia , which he continued in 1838 at the National Academy of Design in New York. For their annual exhibition in 1841 he submitted his painting The Death of Abel .
In 1845 he went to Europe and studied in London , Paris , Florence and Rome . After a visit to Venezuela in 1847, he went back to Rome and painted, among other works, an Italia half-length. In 1849 he went again to New York where he was successful as a portrait painter. The National Academy of Design elected him a full member ( NA ) in 1851 .
Works (selection)
- Attorney Taylor with a View of Damascus , 1855, oil on canvas, 62.5 × 75.5 cm, Washington, Smithsonian Institution , National Portrait Gallery
literature
- Hicks, Thomas . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 196 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Past Academicians "H" / Hicks, Thomas NA 1851 . ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. nationalacademy.org; Retrieved June 26, 2015
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| SURNAME | Hicks, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newtown (Bucks County) , Pennsylvania , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1890 |
| Place of death | Trenton Falls , New York, USA |