Description: The Edward Hicks Federal tiger maple highboy circa 1780, molded crown over four drawers, lower part with configuration of drawers, scalloped skirt, shell-carved cabriole legs on pad feet; H74" W40" D20"
Provenance: Edward Hicks (1780-1849) collection, by descent to as detailed:
Edward Hicks to his son Isaac Worstall Hicks in 1849
Isaac Hicks to his son William Penrose Hicks in 1898
William Penrose Hicks to his daughter Hannah Brown Hicks in 1916
Hannah Brown Hicks to her daughter Eleanor Hicks Lee in 1976
Eleanor Hicks Lee to her daughter Diana Lee Guttenberg in 1986
Diana Lee Guttenberg to her daughter Jennifer Anne Thomas in 2013
Other Notes: Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was a Pennsylvania-born Quaker artist and is considered the most well-known and beloved of America's folk painters. Born in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the orphaned Hicks was apprenticed to local coachmakers William and Henry Tomlinson where he learned the art of ornamental painting. By 1803 he had married Sarah Worstall of Newtown, Pennsylvania. Hicks is best-known for his Peaceable Kingdom painting, of which he painted various versions. Today there are 62 versions currently known.