Edward Hicks A devoted Quaker missionary and one of America's best-known painters in naive style, he was self-taught. He was born in Langhorne, Pennsylvania and orphaned, was raised by the Twining family. He apprenticed to a carriage maker and decorated coaches, tavern signs, tables, chairs and furniture. He joined the Society of Friends, which helped his recovery from alcoholism, and he became a preacher, for which he was most famous during his lifetime. But he is remembered as a painter, and "The Peaceable Kingdom" is his most famous subject. He painted more than one-hundred versions of that theme, and his work is based.

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