Edward Hicks - The Peaceable Kingdom - 1945.38 - Cleveland Museum of Art

Edward Hicks (1780–1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished religious minister of the Society of Friends (aka "Quakers"). He became a Quaker icon because of his paintings. Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Anglican. Isaac Hicks, his father, was a Loyalist who was left without any money after the British defeat in the Revolutionary War. After young Edward's mother died when he was eighteen months old, Matron Elizabeth Twining – a close friend of his mother's – raised him as one of her own at their farm, known as the Twining Farm. He also resided at the David Leedom Farm. She also taught him the Quaker beliefs, which had a great effect on the rest of his life.