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The Residence of David Twining, by Edward Hicks.
The Residence of David Twining.
Color farm scene. Farm animals in the foreground and farm house and out buildings in background.

Credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.

As a child Hicks for a while lived on the David and Elizabeth Twinings" prosperous Bucks County Farm. In the 1840s, he painted four scenes of the Twining farm from his memories of how it appeared in the 1780s.

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