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Thomas Hicks was born on October 18, 1823 in Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Joseph and Jane (Bond) Hicks, and was descended from Robert Hicks who arrived at Plymouth in November 1622.
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Thomas Hicks was born on October 18, 1823 in Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Joseph and Jane (Bond) Hicks, and was descended from Robert Hicks who arrived at Plymouth in November 1622.
At fifteen Hicks was employed by his father's cousin, Edward Hicks, to learn the trade of coach painting. While thus engaged he painted a portrait of his employer which so far gained the approval of his family that he was permitted to go, the following year, to Philadelphia, where he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy.
He continued his studies at the National Academy in New York and in 1841 he won public notice with his "Death of Abel. "
In 1845 he went abroad to study. He visited London, Florence, and Rome, then completed his training in Paris in the atelier of Thomas Couture.
On his return to New York in 1849 Hicks found a ready demand for portraits and in 1851 he was elected to the National Academy.
The list of his sitters is a long one, including Henry Ward Beecher, Fitz-Greene Halleck, William Cullen Bryant, T. Addison Richards, Bayard Taylor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Daniel Wesley Middleton, General Meade, Edwin Booth (in the character of Iago), and Abraham Lincoln.
A portrait of the artist's wife is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; his portraits of William M. Evarts and Honorary Gulian C. Verplanck hang in the Century Club, New York; that of Honorary Luther Bradish is at the New York Historical Society; and that of Stephen Foster is in the collection of Thomas B. Clarke.
In addition to his portraits Hicks painted a number of compositions. These include "The Harem, " "Shelley's Grave, " "Italia, " and "Mount Vesuvius, " and a large portrait-group of American authors.
He died at Thornwood, Trenton Falls, New York.
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Hicks was a member of the National Academy and president of the Artists' fund society of New York from 1873 till 1885.
Nothing is known about his family.