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Edward Hicks, The Residence of David Twining, Bucks County, PA, circa 1846.
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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 farm of David and Elizabeth Twinings in Bucks County. 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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