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Residence of David Twining, (painting). Artist:  Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849, painter. Title:  Residence of David Twining, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1845-1846. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  26 x 29 1/2 in. (66 x 75 cm) Inscription:  (Lower center:) the Residence of David Twining in 1785/when the painter was five years old Description:  View of the Twining Farm near Newtown, Pennsylvania where Edward Hicks was raised. In the right foreground, a young Hicks is seen seated at the knee of Elizabeth Twining, his guardian, listening to the Scriptures. Nearby a man opens the gate to an animal pen filled with cows, sheep, and pigs. In the middle ground, a man guides a plow pulled by two horses. Nearby, a man and a woman prepare to ride. In the background is the farmhouse, well, and barn. Subject:  Landscape -- Farm -- Twining Farm Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Farmhouse Portrait female -- Twining, Elizabeth -- Full length Portrait male -- Hicks, Edward -- Child Animal -- Cattle Occupation -- Farm Primitive Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Accession Number: 62.39 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Twining, Sarah, Carpenter, Francis William, Carpenter, Francis William, daughter of, Greenwich, Connecticut North Greenwich Congregational Church, Greenwich, Connecticut by 1961. M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York 1961. Acquired 1962. References:  Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pg. 79. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1990. Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Illustration:  Image on file. Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992, pg. 255. Catalogue of Painting Collection, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1973, pl. 27. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 46470161   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 46470161 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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