Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom Size: 30 X 23 3/4 In

A lion lies in pastoral repose beside a lamb, while a bear and ox gather in the middle ground and a cluster of children moves through the composition with unhurried calm — the utopian vision drawn from Isaiah 11 that defined Edward Hicks's life's work rendered here in its characteristically warm, luminous palette. In the background, William Penn's treaty with the Lenape people echoes the foreground's theme of harmony, a pairing Hicks returned to across more than sixty known versions of this subject throughout his career as a Quaker minister and self-taught painter in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. Works in this tradition — rooted in American folk art's flattened perspective, tender figuration, and moral earnestness — occupy a cherished place in the canon of early national painting. This piece carries the gentle authority of that iconography and would anchor beautifully in a collection focused on American folk traditions, narrative painting, or the enduring power of visionary art.

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• Dimensions: 30 x 23 3/4 in

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