Edward Hicks

Edward Hicks was a prominent Pennsylvania member of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, who believe in a direct, personal relationship with God. The Quaker values of equality, peace, and simplicity informed the subjects he chose to paint, and he is best remembered for his composition The Peaceable Kingdom, of which he produced more than 60 versions. He was not formally trained as an artist—he mainly made his living as a painter of shop signs.