Working sculptor: Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and ... By Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Monday, December 10, 2007

Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and ... By Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and ... By Henry Theodore Tuckerman: "

Among our portrait painters of Quaker parentage is Thomas Hicks born in Newtown Bucks county Pa in 1823 He is a lineal descendant of the famous Elias Hicks whose patronymic is associated with the first serious division in that remarkable body of Christians His young kinsman early began to experiment in limning He tried his hand at portraiture when but fifteen years old He first studied in Philadelphia carefully drawing from the casts of the antique in the Academy and subsequently at the National Academy of New York where for many years he has pursued successfully the career of a portrait painter Attention was called to his claims by the exhibition in 1841 of his first composition the Death of Abel and subsequently by a half length ideal female figure representing Italia He went to Europe in 1845 anc remained four years chiefly at Rome and Paris in the l

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